Does a Russian-speaking man know enough English to have understood his rights when he talked to police about his alleged of abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering?

The intent of Own the Podium was to have Canadian athletes be competitive at the home Olympics. That’s why about $120 million has been invested over the past five years. Mission accomplished.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Words like “peace” and “mercy” are vital to talking about Christianity. They are just two of many English words difficult to translate smoothly as an evolving Episcopal congregation tries to create a Hmong version of the denomination’s Book of Common Prayer.

Translation Process Optimization and Automation Tools in Life Sciences

Wired has mention of a new site that hopes to encourage a grassroots “citizen diplomacy” movement by combining English/Arabic translation software with a Facebook-style meeting place. “Meedan, which officially launches Monday, lets users post stories and comments in English and have them automatically translated into Arabic, or the opposite. People who don’t share a common language can have an …

A new website aimed at improving relations between Arabic and western nations through real-time translation of news reports has gone live. Meedan , which has been running as a beta site for nine months, uses new machine-assisted translation technology and human editors to provide news and an online network for Arabic and English-speaking users.

DMK MPs, led by union Ministers A. Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, complained to Speaker Meira Kumar about the lack of a simultaneous English translation of President Pratibha Patil’s address in Hindi to the joint session of parliament Monday.

A view of the Codex Sinaiticus, the world’s oldest Bible, at the British Library Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters In the beginning was the word, but then the word changed. Translation has always b…

New Delhi, Feb 22 : DMK MPs, led by union Ministers A. Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, complained to Speaker Meira Kumar about the lack of a simultaneous English translation of President Pratibha Patil’s address in Hindi to the joint session of parliament Monday.

Asia’s social media sites can turn a profit, but they don’t travel well.

, Minn. (AP) — Words like “peace” and “mercy” are vital to talking about Christianity. They’re just two of many English words difficult to translate smoothly as an evolving Episcopal

Software translates foreign text from camera phone images…

Google unveils apps for live conversations between different languages, but analysts remain wary.

VoxOx has baked a Universal Translator directly into is Web communications platform, provides foreign language messaging translation for text messages, instant messaging, e-mail and messaging communications via Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

Tehran, Feb 16 (AFP) Iran today admitted that it has not received a new proposal from three world powers concerning its nuclear fuel, blaming a translation error for having insisted otherwise previously.

BARCELONA, Spain & SAN DIEGO—-VoxOx® by TelCentris®, the first and only free consumer service that unifies today’s key communication channels — voice, video, IM, text, social media, e-mail, fax and file sharing — into a single user interface, today announced the launch of the VoxOx Universal Translator™, the first translation service to be natively built into a communications software …

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 14, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today while visiting the Don Luigi di Liegro shelter run by Caritas in Rome.

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 14, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave Saturday in an audience with members of the Pontifical Academy for Life who gathered in Rome for a general assembly on the topic of bioethics and natural law.

Hollywood director, Kevin Smith, says he was thrown off of a Southwest Airlines flight yesterday for being a “safety risk” to other passengers. Translation: the flight attendant thought he was too overweight to fit in his seat, reports TMZ.com .

Famous autistic Temple Grandin talks about her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.

Author Dick Francis, famous for his horse racing-based crime novels, has died aged 89, his family has said.