• "We thought we were going to be killed at any moment, " he told his newspaper, saying they could hear and feel the relentless coalition bombing of Iraq's capital, as well as the firing from a nearby anti-aircraft battery.

    CNN: Missing journalists safe in Jordan

  • "I think people love the source material because no character is sacred, no character is safe, and anyone -- even the most beloved and innocent people in the comic -- could be killed at any moment, " said Blair Butler, comic book expert for G4's "Attack of the Show" -- and one of many fans of the book's creator, Robert Kirkman.

    CNN: Can 'The Walking Dead' scare up viewers?

  • The pilot culls will look at whether badgers can be killed effectively and humanely, not at any scientific data.

    BBC: Q&A: The badger cull

  • Residents in a Derbyshire town say they fear someone will be killed after four accidents at the same railway bridge in fewer than six months.

    BBC: Ambergate railway bridge hit four times in six months

  • "These will be on the plaque for all the other Welsh mining tragedies and are likely to include words to the effect of 'Hopefully the four miners killed at Gleision will be the last', " said Jack Humphreys, chair of the group, which is still raising money to cover the cost of the memorial.

    BBC: Gleision rethink for national mining memorial

  • The study mentions a 2007 estimate of 863 adults in the Hudson, but says most fish killed at Indian Point would be juveniles, and only "a very small percentage" of them.

    WSJ: Feds: Relatively few fish die if NY nukes continue

  • Mr Yevloyev was the most high-profile Russian journalist to be killed since assassins shot investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya at her Moscow apartment in October 2006.

    BBC: Police 'break up Ingush protest'

  • At least 3m people would be killed and 1.5m seriously injured if both sides exploded just one in ten of their likely number of nuclear warheads over big cities, according to a study reported in New Scientist.

    ECONOMIST: South Asia’s nuclear winter | The

  • While there was no hunger among the city's residents in 2002 as there had been during the siege in 1948, the chronic, continuous sense that at any moment you could be killed filled the air with similar dread and foreboding.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Jerusalem, the Eternal Front Line

  • Three in five will be physically assaulted, and native women also are killed at a rate 10 times the national average, the center said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The attack killed at least five and appeared to be in response to Christian killings in Nigeria's mostly Muslim north by Boko Haram, the spokesman said.

    WSJ: Nigeria Torn by Rising Religious Violence

  • Prospective guides spend years getting close to the animals, and before they can even take a rigorous weeklong field exam conducted in the bush the toughest guide exam on the continent, by far they must have shot and killed at least five big animals. (These are animals that need to be culled, not ones killed for sport.) Most guide candidates arrive with many more than five kills.

    WSJ: Walk With the Animals

  • President Obama will soon be in Boston speaking at an interfaith service for those killed in the Boston bombings.

    BBC: Obama as warrior and healer

  • And one other semi-soothing fact, from other studies: in spite of the tragic fate of the Eappen baby, children are far less likely to die at the hands of carers than to be killed by their own relatives.

    ECONOMIST: Child care

  • Prayers are to be held for those who were killed and injured during Sunday service at the nearby St Munda's Church.

    BBC: Glencoe avalanche: Four dead, say police

  • His death at Bosworth - the last English king to be killed in battle - ushered in the Tudor dynasty beginning with Henry VII.

    BBC: Richard III dig: Skull image released ahead of DNA results

  • Police say people from the Pontypridd area of Wales who were in the pub at the time Mr Lavelle was killed could be key witnesses.

    BBC: Reward increased for Kevin Lavelle 'dumbbell' pub murder

  • During the trial, prison officers Kim Lockwood and Chris Matson told the jury they feared they were about to be killed when the gunman threatened to shoot them moments after arriving at the hospital.

    BBC: Andrew Farndon

  • Sometimes even if you just looked at a soldier the wrong way, you would be killed.

    BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

  • U.S. airstrikes killed at least 15 people in Baghdad neighborhoods known to be Mehdi Army strongholds Sunday morning, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

    CNN: Al-Sadr calls off fighting, orders compliance with Iraqi security

  • At least five of those killed were reported to be firemen.

    BBC: Burma blast kills at least 17 in Rangoon

  • Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, famous for a study several years ago which showed that children are far more likely to be killed by step-parents than biological parents, tend to look at things from a Darwinian point of view.

    ECONOMIST: Evolutionary biology

  • At least 92 people were killed by bombers said to be Sunni extremists.

    BBC: Pakistan Shia protest: PM visits Quetta for talks

  • The 350th soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has been described as the "epitome of courage" at his funeral in West Yorkshire.

    BBC: Pte Martin Bell

  • And they are killing innocent women because even if we wear miniskirts, even if we walk alone at night, we are not asking to be raped and killed.

    BBC

  • If this year follows trends, Curvin will be only one of at least 100 children below the age of 18 killed on American farms, not to mention the 23, 000 who will be injured badly enough to require hospital admission.

    CNN: Obama, strengthen rules on child farm labor

  • Sir Peter Fahy, who became chief constable shortly after PC Terry was killed, was told the force will be sentenced on 20 and 21 March at Preston Crown Court.

    BBC: Pc Ian Terry

  • "We'd like it to be back in Newtown at a new location and not at the location where Olivia was killed, " said Brian Engel, whose 6-year-old daughter died at Sandy Hook, at the meeting.

    WSJ: Sandy Hook's School Planning Divides Newtown, Conn.

  • In 2007, an internal report for Transport for London concluded women cyclists are far more likely to be killed by lorries because, unlike men, they tend to obey red lights and wait at junctions in the driver's blind spot.

    BBC: Are women cyclists in more danger than men?

  • Rogge said Saturday that the IOC would "be present" at the September 5 ceremony honoring the dead at the site where they were killed in Germany.

    CNN: Olympics head rejects silence for Israeli victims

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定