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Financial markets around the world have responded positively after five leading central banks said they are taking new steps to tackle the financial crisis. The banks will provide extra loans in US dollars to commercial banks to make sure they have enough funds to repay debts on time. More from our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.
在五家主要央行宣布采取新的措施应对金融危机之后，全球金融市场已作出积极回应。这些银行将向商业银行提供额外美元贷款，以确保他们有足够的资金来及时偿还债务。我们的经济记者Andrew Walker报道更多内容。

Shares in New York have gained for the fourth consecutive day, and earlier European markets also rose. The euro has made gains as well. A series of developments have given investors some reassurance about Europe. Leading central banks have indicated they'll supply extra dollars to the commercial banks. Investors also took some comfort earlier from the French and German leaders insisting that Greece is an integral part of the euro area. But there's still the risk of serious losses, if there were a wave of government defaults. The challenge of dealing with Europe's sovereign debt and banking crisis remains a daunting one.
纽约股指已经连续第四天上涨，而先前欧洲股市也上涨了。欧元的汇率也有所上升。一系列事态发展使使投资者对欧洲的信心有了一些保证。主要的央行已经表示，他们将为商业银行提供额外美元贷款。此前，法国和德国领导人坚称，希腊是欧元区不可或缺的一部分，这也使投资者感到欣慰。但是如果政府拖欠债务，金融市场仍然可能遭遇严重损失。处理欧洲主权债务危机和银行业危机依然是一项艰巨的挑战。

Syrians campaigning against President Bashar al-Assad say they've formed a single body to represent the opposition. It was announced at a meeting in Turkey exactly six months after the start of the protests. Jonathan Head reports from Istanbul.
反对叙利亚总统阿萨德的运动称，他们已经成立了独立的机构来代表反对派。抗议活动开始六个月后在土耳其召开的会议上他们宣布了该决定。Jonathan Head从伊斯坦布尔发回报道。

After several failed attempts, President Assad's opponents have finally created a single body, the Syrian National Council. Organisers say they've mapped out every relevant political group or personality, drawing up a list of 700 people from which they've selected 140 to sit on the council. Around half are expected to come from groups operating inside Syria. The council will set up committees to handle tasks like foreign relations. It will inevitably draw comparisons with the transitional council in Libya, but the challenge confronting Syrian dissidents is much greater.
在几次尝试失败之后，阿萨德总统的反对者最终建立了一个独立的机构，叙利亚全国委员会。组织者表示，他们已经制定了每一个相关的政治组织或个人，起草了700人的名单，并从中选择了140人成为全国委员会理事。其预计大约有一半来自叙利亚境内运作的组织。全国委员会将建立理事会来处理外国关系等任务。叙利亚全国委员会不可避免地要被拿来与利比亚过渡委员会作比较，但叙利亚持不同政见者面临的挑战要大得多。

The US State Department has repeated its warning to all American citizens to leave Syria immediately while it's still possible to travel out of the country. It says the Syrian government's violent suppression of peaceful protests has left the country in a state of uncertainty and volatility. The authorities are preparing for more demonstrations on Friday.
美国国务院再次警告所有美国公民，趁现在仍然可能出境，立即离开叙利亚。它称，叙利亚政府暴力镇压和平抗议活动，使得这个国家已经陷入不确定与动荡状态。当局已经准备在周五再次发动示威活动。

Washington has stepped up efforts to dissuade the Palestinians from applying for full membership of the United Nations at the UN General Assembly next week. The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said there was a growing recognition among the parties that [the] only real answer was negotiations. And in a BBC interview, the US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice said a unilateral bid for statehood would set back prospects for real talks.
华盛顿已加紧努力，以阻止巴勒斯坦在下周的联合国大会上申请成为联合国正式成员国。美国国务卿希拉里．克林顿表示，各方逐渐开始认识到，唯一真正的答案是进行谈判。而在BBC的一次采访中，美国驻联合国大使赖斯(Susan Rice)称，单方面申请成为独立的国家将使进行真正的对话的前景遭到挫败。

"There's no shortcut. There's no magic wand. If there were, we would have waved it by now; we'd be there. So this is, as a practical matter, a diversion, and it's worse than a diversion; it actually is going to set back prospects for the two parties to come to the table."
“这个问题没有捷径，没有魔术棒。如果有的话，我们现在已经挥舞了，我们已经解决问题了。实际上，这是转移前进方向的举动，比转移前进方向更加糟糕，实际上会使双方进行对话的前景遭到挫败。”

The BBC's UN correspondent says Washington wants to avoid being forced to veto such a bid for fear of tarnishing relations with the Muslim world.
BBC驻联合国记者说，华盛顿希望避免以防毁坏与穆斯林世界的关系而投否决票。

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Denmark's first female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has claimed victory in a general election with the centre-left taking power after a decade in opposition. Thomas Buch-Andersen reports.
丹麦的第一位女首相Helle Thorning-Schmidt在大选中宣布获胜。左翼党派在作为反对派十年时间之后再次执政。Thomas Buch-Andersen报道。

Helle Thorning-Schmidt declared victory, telling her supporters "Today we've written history." She's set to become Denmark's first woman prime minister after a closely-fought campaign dominated by the economy. The defeated Prime Minister Lokke Rasmussen was seen to have done well to steer Denmark through the financial crisis, but the country's economic rebound is considered to have been sluggish. Mrs Thorning-Schmidt campaigned on a platform of tax rises and increased public spending and a plan to make everyone work 12 minutes more per day to kick-start economic growth.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt宣布获胜，告诉她的支持者“今天我们书写了历史”。在经过围绕经济议题的激烈的竞争之后，她成为丹麦首位女首相。落败的首相拉斯穆森被认为在领导丹麦走出金融危机中已经做的很好，但是全国的经济复苏非常缓慢。Helle Thorning-Schmidt竞选时提出增加税收，增加公共支出，以及要求每个人每天多工作12分钟来促进经济增长的计划。

Gunmen in northern Mexico have shot dead three relatives of a police officer who's being held in connection with a deadly arson attack on a casino last month. Police believe it was an act of revenge by the Zetas drug cartel after the officer named gang members involved in the casino attack.
墨西哥北部的枪手已经枪杀了一名警务人员的三名亲属，该警务人员涉嫌参与一座赌场致命的纵火案。警方认为，由于这名警官举报了参与赌场袭击事件的犯罪分子的姓名，Zetas贩毒组织采取了报复行为。

Researchers in Canada have discovered dinosaur feathers perfectly preserved in amber, suggesting that many species of dinosaur may have been covered in rich plumage. Researchers say the discovery will help them understand how feathers evolved into the wide variety found on modern birds. Here's Pallab Ghosh.
加拿大研究人员在琥珀中发现了保存完好的恐龙羽毛，这表明恐龙中的许多品种可能全身覆盖着大量羽毛。研究人员称，该发现将帮助他们理解恐龙羽毛如何演变成现代鸟类丰富的羽毛的。Pallab Ghosh报道。

The popular view of meat-eating dinosaurs is that they were big, fearsome and scaly, but there's been growing fossil evidence that many of them were feathery, and now researchers have obtained actual dinosaur feathers frozen in amber. They are of dinosaurs living 70 to 85 million years ago. The feathers are incredibly well preserved. Scientists can see details of their structure even their colours. Many of the feathers seem to be small, brown and fluffy - probably for warmth rather than flight.
关于食肉恐龙的普遍的观点是，他们是巨大的，可怕的，有鳞的动物，但是不断增加的化石证据表明，许多恐龙是有羽毛的。现在，研究人员已经发现了封存在湖泊中的真正的恐龙羽毛。这些恐龙生活在7000万至8500万年前。这些羽毛保存的非常完好。科学家可以看到其结构的细节，甚至羽毛的颜色。许多羽毛看上去是细小的褐色蓬松的茸毛，可能主要是用于保暖，而不是用于飞行。

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