VOA标准英语2010-World Bank /IMF Report says Global Econom

An unidentified resident stands in front of a poor apartment in Lagos, Nigeria Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. The International Day of the Eradication of Poverty is marked worlwide Tuesday with the aim of eradicating absolute poverty and reducing overall po

VOA标准英语2010-Iraq's Parliamentary Election Votes to be

Iraq's Electoral Commission is preparing for a manual recount of ballots cast in Baghdad during the March 7 parliamentary elections. An Iraqi court announced the recount on Monday after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki claimed widespread vote fraud in

VOA标准英语2010-Second British Prime Ministerial Debate t

The debate spurred a surge in voter registration, especially among young people. Some polls are showing the three parties running even. Jennifer Glasse | London 22 April 2010 Britain's Conservative David Cameron leader (center) speaks during a first

VOA标准英语2010-Returning Trees, Jobs to Haiti's Eroded H

98 percent of the country's forests have been cut down Steve Baragona | Petit Guave, Haiti 22 April 2010 Restoring Haiti's hillsides with contour canals, vetiver grass, and trees Edgar Griffin has lived on this hillside outside the town of Petit Guav

VOA标准英语2010-Getting at the Gold in Southern Sierra Le

Better known for its diamond fields, gold exploration and mining in Sierra Leone is on the increase. The British company, Cluff Gold, has announced it will build a mechanized gold mine in the southern Kangari hills after finding large deposits of gol

VOA标准英语2010-HIV/AIDS Study says Death of a Mother Mor

Joe DeCapua 22 April 2010 We could establish that children who lost their mother before the age of 15 had typically a year less schooling compared to children who didnt experience these kind of events... Its estimated that 15 million children have lo

VOA标准英语2010-American Colleges are Going Green

Almost 700 roof-mounted panels help to power the environmental-studies building at Oberlin College in Ohio, which is routinely included in top-20 lists of America's greenest colleges. The nickname of sports teams at Tulane University in New Orleans i

VOA标准英语2010-Obama to Wall Street: Do not Fight Financ

President Obama also directed attention to an ongoing and enormously sensitive issue for Americans - multi-million dollar salaries, bonuses and other compensation paid to industry executives. Dan Robinson | White House 22 April 2010 US President Bara

VOA标准英语2010-Nuremberg Prosecutor Dies at 97

There were 12 more trials of Nazis in Nuremberg after the first (and most famous) international criminal trial. Whitney Harris was the last living courtroom prosecutor from that initial proceeding. The last surviving courtroom prosecutor from the fir

VOA标准英语2010-Sudanese Government Blocks Independent El

A Sudanese woman casts her vote as representatives of candidates observe at a polling station during the second day of Sudan's first multiparty elections in decades, 12 April 2010 An online platform designed to facilitate independent monitoring of th

VOA标准英语2010-Turkish Foreign Minister Tries to Defuse

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, shake hands at the end of their press conference in Tehran, Iran, 20 Apr 2010 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu underlined his country's oppositio

VOA标准英语2010-Farm Murder, Anti-Apartheid Song Stoke Ra

Funeral of murdered white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche in Ventersdorp, South Africa, 09 Apr 2010 In South Africa, racial tensions have been heightened in some sectors of society following the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanch

VOA标准英语2010-South Asians Face Higher Risk of Heart Di

New study looks at cardiovascular risk by ethnicity Naomi Seck | Washington, DC 28 April 2010 Researchers studied the prevalence of heart disease and stroke in four ethnic groups: whites, Chinese, South Asians and blacks all living in Ontario provinc

VOA标准英语2010-Swiss Foundation Offers Low Cost Insuranc

Cathy Majtenyi | Nairobi 28 April 2010 In Kenya, small-scale farmers are particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of weather, often losing their entire investment when droughts or floods destroy their crops. Crop insurance is usually too costly for su

VOA标准英语2010-American Apparel Companies Interested in

John Park, manager of the Astro Embroidery company in Port au Prince, Haiti Prior to the January earthquake that devastated Haiti, textile manufacturing accounted for three-quarters of the country's export earnings. The sector employed more than 25,0

VOA标准英语2010-Alpacas Move From Andes to America

Farmers raising alpacas for their fleece are a growing segment of the U.S. agriculture industry Erika Celeste | Ft. Wayne, Indiana 27 April 2010 Unlike in South America, North American alpacas are not raised for meat, but for their valuable fleece. R

VOA标准英语2010-African Maternal and Child Mortality Rate

Joe DeCapua 27 April 2010 Sub-Saharan Africas maternal and child mortality rate remains high despite an overall worldwide reduction, according to The Lancet medical journal. About 350,000 women die annually from child-birth related accidents. As a re

VOA标准英语2010-South African Soccer Grannies Aim for Tou

Mariama Diallo 28 April 2010 As South Africa prepares to host the first World Cup ever on the African continent, a group of South African women over 50 are playing in a local tournament, hoping to raise funds for an upcoming tournament in America - t

VOA标准英语2010-A Visit to Flood City, USA

Despite Hurricane Katrina, it isn't New Orleans Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 26 April 2010 This Harper's Weekly illustration, published shortly after the flood, was no exaggeration of the churning, watery wall of death that befell Johnstown. One of

VOA标准英语2010-Obama Honors Victims of U.S. Coal Mine Di

President Barack Obama, walks with Linda Davis, the grandmother of deceased miner Cory Davis, during a memorial for the victims of the Upper Branch Mine explosion at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25, 20