今日BBC

1、随身英语

Brain training 怎样训练大脑？

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2、地道英语

In good nick 品质好、没有损坏（主要是指古老的东西，比方古董）

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3、今日新闻

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Yahoo: Why would Daily Mail or anyone else buy net firm?

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Recently, there have been more stories about Yahoo shutting bits of its business than celebrating successes.

The firm’s own internet services are now valued to be worth a fraction of its stake in the e-commerce giant Alibaba.

So, after the US tax authorities effectively blocked Yahoo’s sales of shares in the Chinese business, chief executive Marissa Mayer opted for plan B: sell off Yahoo’s core business.

Since February, dozens of US-based companies have been linked to a potential bid.

But the UK-based owner of the Daily Mail newspaper has now confirmed it is in discussions with unnamed parties to make an offer - an announcement that caught many by surprise.

A chance to grow its US audience.

MailOnline and DailyMail.com were the only overseas publications to feature in the country’s top 10 most visited news websites and apps last year, attracting more than 51 million readers.

**But Yahoo - and its partner ABC News - still managed to attract more than double that figure.

“The US has been the main driver of digital growth for Daily Mail & General Trust, but whilst traffic has grown well they haven’t quite monetised this traffic as successfully as they would have liked,” said Ian Whittaker**, a media analyst at the investment bank Liberum.

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Blackberry to launch two Android phones

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Blackberry will launch two mid-range Android handsets this year, chief executive John Chen has said.

One will have a physical keyboard, the other a full touch-screen.

Blackberry has no plans to develop handsets for its own operating system, BB10, but will continue to issue updates for existing devices.

Its sales fell by almost $200m in the three months to the end of February. Mr Chen said its first Android device, the Priv, had been too expensive.

“The fact that we came out with a high-end phone was probably not as wise as it should have been,” he told United Arab Emirates news website the National.

Blackberry chief executive John Chen said one of the new devices would have a physical keyboard.