VOA标准英语2011--Young African Striker Danny Mwanga Excel

Young African Striker Danny Mwanga Excels in MLS Striker Danny Mwanga, 20, is reaching his potential with Major League Soccer's Philadelphia Union. Mwanga is second on the team in goals with five and ranks in the top 10 in MLS in combined goals and a

VOA标准英语2011--US Pledges Aid for Drought-Stricken Soma

US Pledges Aid for Drought-Stricken Somali Refugees With the drought in Somalia officially declared a famine, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, was in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya to pledge Ameri

VOA标准英语2011--Nurses, Unions Propose Wall Street Tax

Nurses, Unions Propose Wall Street Tax National Nurses United, a 165,000 member union, is leading organized labor in the United States in a challenge to Wall Street, its practices, and what the nurses call Wall Street's sway over politicians. The nur

VOA标准英语2011--US Bridge Loses Main Claim to Fame

US Bridge Loses Main Claim to Fame Several years ago, the U.S. automobile-rental company Avis came up with an imaginative, if not exactly boastful, advertising slogan. We're Number Two! in number of rentals, it went. We Try Harder. The folks in south

VOA标准英语2011--Tunisians Actively Contemplating Democra

Tunisians Actively Contemplating Democratic Elections in October The North African country of Tunisia was to have held its first ever democratic elections this month. The vote has been delayed until October, as authorities finalize a process that exp

VOA标准英语2011--Pat Metheny Goes Solo on 'What's It All

Pat Metheny Goes Solo on 'What's It All About' Acclaimed guitarist Pat Metheny returns to playing solo acoustic guitar on a new album of pop standards called What's It All About. It's not every day that you hear a remake of The Stylistics' Betcha By

VOA标准英语2011--India's Circus Owners Banned From Using

India's Circus Owners Banned From Using Children Performers India's traditional traveling circuses remain widely popular across the country, although attendance has been falling in recent years. Despite their popularity, there have long been concerns

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