【正文】 Seeks Bride （Prince Charles, who is 32 years old, is looking for someone to marry. ）(3)，Ericsson Forming Joint Venture （Microsoft and Ericsson forming joint venture.）(4). Alaskan Oil for Japan？ (Will there be alaskan oil for Japan? )(5). Irish Group Kills ex－chief（The Irish group kills its ex－chief.）Whereas not all of the articles can be omitted.(1). West Point Makes a Comeback “Make a eback” is an idiom so “a” must be remained.(2). How America Sees the World。 In front of “world” there must be a “the”. (3). Kill In The Name Of God “The” should be here for the sake of definit connection. Use punctuations to save pages” ma can be in stead of ‘a(chǎn)nd’ ”[12 ] p140 (1). Tailand, Malaysia Ink Sea reaty. （Tailand and Malaysia ink a sea treaty.）(2). Woman Kills Husband, Self （A woman kills her husband and herself.） Use of colon“Said” or “say” can be instead by colons or double quotation marks to give a meaning that someone says something or some conclusions are drawn?！皌o be” sometimes is replaced by a colon in headlines. (1). Hu :We Should Support Third World Countries （Hu says that we should support the third world counties.）(2). Chinese cooks: masters at turning a turnip into a flower.（Chinese cooks are masters at turning a turnip into a flower.） Use of single quotation marks Single quotation marks can quote someone’s saying。 or the words in side of them have a deep or other meanings. Single quotation marks are often instead of double quotation marks for they are shorter.(1). Teen Killer Was Angry Young Man.(2). China Demands . Stop ‘Interfering’ on Human Rights (3). Bush Unveils A ‘Can Do’ Budget. To save pages，abbreviations and acronyms are used.The abbreviations often read in headlines are like follows :Afr.－Africa app.－appendixAmt.－amount appox.－approximately“Acronyms are the words formed from the initial letters of a group of words. They can save space and beautify the headlines in picturesque disorder.”[13] p27Acronyms can be divided into three types:(ⅰ)Names of agents or organizations such as CPPCC（The Chinese people’s political consultative conference）and PLO ，WTO…(ⅱ) Names of something that we use very often such as AIDS，UFO, PC…(ⅲ)Nouns for careers，positions or credits like PM (prime minister), MP(member of parliament), GM(general manager), PA(personal assistant). Using nouns，participles and short adjective to embellish words to replace long adjective or clauses.(1). Poison Gas Fear Haunts City （A fear of poison gas is haunting the people in a certain city.）(2). 3 Held Over College Horror Crash （3 people are being detained by the police concerning a horrifying crash at a college.） Use of numbers but without of the following nouns.(1). 41 Die as School Collapses （41 students die as school collapses）(2). Muller charged in fondling of boy，14 ( Muller was charged in fondling of a boy of 14 years old.)Above all, in a fast changing world, news media is the best channel of knowing every field including politics, economics, science, culture, and society. To read English news is the best way to get in touch with modern English and understanding headlines well can help readers prehend the whole news and thus read news efficiently. Though it benefits you a lot, to understand headlines is not such as easy as ABC. If you are really eager to know well of headlines, the history and cultures of English countries, the works of English writers’, the English idioms and wisdoms that all these kinds of knowledge should be mastered. This needs you work hard and persevere.NoteExcept for those marked in references, the other examples are selected from English Digest, English Salon and China Daily in recent years. References[1] 端木義萬. 英語報刊標題的功能及語言特色[J]. 外語研究,2001,2[2] 同[1][3] 同[1][4] 王今生. 英文的標題語言[J]. 黑龍江教育學院學報,2002,1[5] 許菊. 英語報刊標題的美感功能的表現(xiàn)手法及翻譯[J]. 山東外語教學,1999,4[6] 孫玉芝. 談英語新聞標題的特點[J]. 遼寧師專學報,[7] 孫崇英,常天龍. 英語報刊標題特色淺析[J]. 淮陰師專學報,1997,3[8] 林林. 英語新聞標題的修辭與翻譯[J]. 遼寧師專學報,2004,1[9] 李萬敬,馬蘇勇. 如何讀懂英美報刊的標題[J]. 兵團教育學院學報,2001,1[10] 張潔. 論新聞標題及翻譯[J]. 漳州師范學院學報,2004,3[11] 王玉龍,吳建清主編. 新聞英語[M].北京國防工業(yè)出版社,2005,9[12] 同[6][13] 沈志和. 英語新聞標題研究[J]. 柳州師專學報,2003