| Bloom welcomes baby boy |
奧蘭多升格做父親 |
| Elf-prince Orlando Bloom's model wife Miranda Kerr has given birth to a baby boy on Thursday morning, the Daily Mail reports. Kerr, 27, married Bloom, 33, in July and announced the pregnancy in August. |
據英國《每日郵報》報道，“精靈王子”奧蘭多?布魯姆的名模老婆米蘭達?可兒于周四早上為他誕下一子。去年7月，33歲的布魯姆和27歲的可兒締結連理，并于8月宣布懷孕。 |
| South Sudan set for referendum |
蘇丹南部為獨立公投 |
| Millions of South Sudanese are set to vote in a historic referendum to decide whether the South will split from the North and establish a fresh republic, Al Jazeera reports. The weeklong referendum begins today, and to pass, a simple majority must vote for independence and at least 60 percent of the 3.9 million registered voters must cast ballots. If it passes, the referendum will split Africa's biggest country between the mostly Arab and Muslim north, and the mostly black and Christian or animist south. |
據卡塔爾半島電視臺報道，幾百萬南部蘇丹人民將進行歷史性的全民公投，決定蘇丹南部是否和北部分裂，成立獨立的共和國。公投于當地時間今日將舉行，為期一周。如果390萬登記選民中有超過60%的選民投票，并且贊成票數過半，公投將視為通過。如果通過，蘇丹這個非洲最大的國家將一分為二：北部主要是阿拉伯人和伊斯蘭教徒，南方主要由黑人及信奉基督教和泛靈論的部族構成。 |
| Ariz. shooting: Judge dead, rep. wounded |
美女議員遭槍擊受傷 |
| A gunman intended to assassinate a US representative when he opened fire outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket Saturday, killing six and wounding 12 including the congresswoman, the local sheriff said hours after the shooting, CNN reports. US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was in critical condition late Saturday after surgery for a single gunshot wound to the head. The dead included a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, authorities said. |
據美國有線電視新聞網報道，周六，美國亞利桑那州圖森市一家超級市場外發生一起槍擊案，當地警長在槍擊案發生后幾個小時稱，槍手意圖暗殺美國一名女議員，造成6人死亡，12人受傷。美國民主黨女議員加布里埃爾?吉福茲被一顆子彈擊中頭部，于周六晚接受手術，情況危急。死者中包括一名聯邦法官和一名9歲的女孩。 |
| Smoking cancer patients suffer more |
煙民患癌更痛苦 |
| A new study reveals that cancer patients who smoke may experience greater pain from their disease than those who do not, CNN reports. Among former smokers, the longer it had been since they quit, the less they reported their pain to be. Health experts say there might be some relationship between nicotine and pain, but they don't know what that is. |
美國有線電視新聞網消息，一項新的研究表明，與不吸煙的患者相比，吸煙癌癥患者遭遇的疼痛更劇烈。在戒煙的癌癥患者中，戒煙時間越長，其疼痛程度就越輕。健康專家們稱，尼古丁與疼痛之間可能有某種關系，但他們并不確定兩者的關聯機理。
（China.org.cn）
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