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This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing. Here is the news.
A 10th grade teacher was suspended in Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province when a recording revealed her hurling insults at students for not bringing her a gift on Teachers' Day.
The education department of Yilan county of Harbin suspended Feng Qunchao indefinitely on September 12th, after students of Yilan County High School's Class 17 said she called them a "bunch of bums", for not getting her a present on the holiday.
The students quickly scrambled to collect 600 yuan, or 98 U.S. dollars, to buy a gift for her.
Education authorities later required her to return the money.
Teacher's Day recognizes China's educators on September 10.
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The World Health Organization has called for more international medical workers to contain Ebola outbreaks in West Africa.
The WHO has welcomed Cuban government's decision to provide "the largest offer" of 165 health professionals to support Ebola care in West Africa. The medical personnel include physicians, nurses, specialists in infection control and intensive care, and social mobilization officers.
The Ebola outbreak that is ravaging parts of west Africa is the largest, most severe and most complex in almost four decades of the disease history.
The WHO has warned that in the three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the number of new cases is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them in the Ebola treatment centers.
The WHO says the response teams are running short on almost everything, from personal protective equipment, mobile laboratory to isolation wards; but what they need most are people; and professional health care workers are the most important to stop the spread of the disease.
You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing.
In a related development, Doctors treating an American aid worker battling Ebola say that as he improves, he's getting bored in his isolation room.
Nebraska Medical Center in the United States brought in a chess board, books and a Nerf basketball hoop to help entertain the patient, Dr. Rick Sacra.
The 51-year-old has been hospitalized since Sept. 5 as he recovers from the deadly disease he contracted while working at a hospital in Liberia.
His wife, Debbie Sacra, has said her husband is becoming mentally sharper every day but still tires easily.
Another American aid worker is being treated for Ebola at a hospital in Atlanta, where two other doctors were treated for the disease previously.
More than 2,200 deaths have been reported during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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Austrian scientists have found that more than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world's glaciers can be blamed on humans.
Scientists began looking at glacier melt in 1851, and thought global warming was a result of burning of coal, oil and gas as well as increased land use near glaciers. They didn't see a human fingerprint until the middle of the 20th century. Even then, only one-quarter of the warming was caused by humans.
But since 1991, almost 70 percent of the rapidly increasing melting was man-made.
Climate scientists from Austria say glaciers are shrinking very fast due to human-caused melting, especially in Alaska and the Alps.
The study is the first to calculate just how much of the glacial melting can be attributed to people.
The scientists say "the jump from around a quarter to roughly 70 percent of total glacier mass loss is significant and concerning.
Over the last two decades, almost 300 billion tons of ice is melting each year on average due to human reasons, while around 130 billion tons a year are melting because of natural reasons.
You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing.
Australia's Queensland state has approved a plan that will prevent 3 million cubic meters of seabed mud from being dumped in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
The state-owned construction company had got federal approval to dump dredged sediment in the marine park, in order to expand a coal port at Abbot Point. But environmentalists claimed the decision will endanger one of the world's most fragile ecosystems.
The Queensland government has approved a new disposal plan that will have the material reused on land.
The authorities hope that the new disposal plan will create a win-win situation, by protecting the unique values of the Great Barrier Reef, and as the same time, allowing for the staged development of the important port.
