VOA标准英语2011--Farm Ministers Call for Commodity Market

Farm Ministers Call for Commodity Market Regulation Wild swings Woody Barth has been farming and raising cattle in North Dakota for about 30 years. He says he always looked to the commodity markets for stability. But that's changed in recent years. W

VOA标准英语2011--New TB Vaccine Passes Safety Tests

New TB Vaccine Passes Safety Tests Tuberculosis continues to be a major threat around the world, especially in developing countries. A new vaccine has gone into testing, and the results may change how childhood vaccinations are given. TB kills 1.8 mi

VOA标准英语2011--Survey: Social Media Users are Happier,

Survey: Social Media Users are Happier, More Engaged We call interactive communications tools such as Twitter and Facebook social media. But lots of commentators have asserted that using them heavily makes people less sociable, if not downright anti-

VOA标准英语2011--Sanitation Pioneer Offers India's 'Untou

Sanitation Pioneer Offers India's 'Untouchable' Women New Lease on Life Soon after it gained independence, modern India outlawed discrimination against so-called untouchables, the lowest of social classifications outlined in Hindu scripture. In reali

VOA标准英语2011--Crisis Mapping Helps with Disaster Relie

Crisis Mapping Helps with Disaster Relief After devastating natural disasters, mobile phone networks, satellites and other computer software are often used to help to pinpoint where help is needed the most. They are crucial for the creation of crisis

VOA标准英语2011--Spaniards Protest High Rate of Foreclosu

Spaniards Protest High Rate of Foreclosures, Debt Europe is suffering from its worst ever real-estate market. And one country that seems to be pushing back hard at its government is Spain. More than two months after Spain's so-called indignados began

VOA标准英语2011--Atlantis Crew Ready for Final Shuttle Mi

Atlantis Crew Ready for Final Shuttle Mission The end of an era is near. The U.S. space shuttles - the complex workhorses of the U.S. space program - are being retired so NASA can focus on developing spacecraft that can travel beyond low-Earth-orbit.

VOA标准英语2011--Norway Massacre Highlights Europe's Grow

Norway Massacre Highlights Europe's Growing Far Right Norway's prime minister says European intelligence agencies have joined the investigation into last week's terror attacks that left at least 76 people dead. Jens Stoltenberg says the country's cor

VOA标准英语2011--Many Thai Voters Uncertain as Elections

Many Thai Voters Uncertain as Elections Draw Near Thailand is readying for general elections Sunday seen as marking a further test of country's democratic institutions. Opinion polls indicate a tight race, with about one third of voters still undecid

VOA标准英语2011--Europe Spending Cuts Prompt Street Prote

Europe Spending Cuts Prompt Street Protests Demonstrations are taking place in cities across Britain as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers stage the biggest strike in years against pension cuts. On the other side of Europe in Greece, ther

VOA标准英语2011--Burma Draws Foreign Envoys

Burma Draws Foreign Envoys Kevin Rudd became the first Australian foreign minister to visit Burma since 2002, Burma expert Sean Turnell of Australia's Macquarie University says Rudd and other diplomats are trying to get a sense of the new civilian go

VOA标准英语2011--African Refugee Children at High Risk fo

African Refugee Children at High Risk for Kala-azar, Malaria, Viral Infections Some 300,000 children are receiving vaccinations against polio and measles at one of the largest refugee camps in Kenya. They also are receving vitamin A and deworming tab

VOA标准英语2011--Analysts: Tensions Between Turks and Kur

Analysts: Tensions Between Turks and Kurds Threaten Stability In the last two weeks, 20 Turkish soldiers have been killed by the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK. The more than quarter-of-a-century conflict between the group and the Turkish government ha

VOA标准英语2011--Pakistan, India Signal 'New Era' of Coop

Pakistan, India Signal 'New Era' of Cooperation The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan have hailed a new era of cooperation, after meeting for the first time since peace talks between the rival nations resumed earlier this year. The officials pr

VOA标准英语2011--Mubarak Trial Carries Many Uncertainties

Mubarak Trial Carries Many Uncertainties for Nervous Egypt Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to go on trial August 3 on corruption and murder charges related to his 30-year tenure and the crackdown on protesters during the revoluti

VOA标准英语2011--Fraud Hunters Unmask Military Imposters

Fraud Hunters Unmask Military Imposters If you were to attend a parade or musical celebration of the 235th anniversary of Americans' declaration of independence today, you'd likely see lots of men and women in the uniforms of the United States milita

VOA标准英语2011--Obama Takes Heat from Pro-Immigration Gr

Obama Takes Heat from Pro-Immigration Groups U.S. President Barack Obama came into office with strong voter support among Hispanic Americans, while promising to make immigration reform a top priority. But many lawmakers in Washington oppose easing re

VOA标准英语2011--Ex-IMF Chief Released on Own Recognizanc

Ex-IMF Chief Released on Own Recognizance Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn has been released on his own recognizance as New York state prosecutors reveal doubts about the credibility of his accuser. Dominique Strauss-Kah

VOA标准英语2011--Politics Overtaking Science in Global Wa

Politics Overtaking Science in Global Warming Debate Polls in recent years show that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat or that it is driven by human activities. Thats despite consensus among scientists that climate change is not only

VOA标准英语2011--Tropical Storm Lee to Soak US Gulf Coast

Tropical Storm Lee to Soak US Gulf Coast The U.S. Gulf Coast is getting a major soaking this weekend from Tropical Storm Lee. The storm is expected to dump as much as 50 centimeters of rain in parts of the southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi an