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By Al Pessin Pentagon 28 March 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called on Russia to conduct a
By Gary Thomas Washington 26 January 2006 The Bush administration launched a vigorous defense of its controversial electronic eavesdropping program this week. Senior legal and intelligence officials s
Four years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reports tremendous progress has been made in rebuilding the structures that were destroyed and in rehabilitating shattered co
Nelson Mandela is no stranger to London. The city loves the South African statesman and Friday night nearly 50,000 gathered in London's Hyde Park to celebrate his 90th birthday. From the British capital, Tom Rivers reports. Nelson Mandela, left, wav
White House: Consumer Spending Will Decline Unless Congress Averts Fiscal A new poll shows a whopping 247 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the Thanksgiving weekend. Black Friday - the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season -
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 October 2006 The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winners, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank, have lifted millions of people out of poverty in Bangladesh. Yunus pioneered the concept of microfinance, giving small loans to ver
By Scott Stearns Washington 25 July 2006 President Bush and Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, left, walk from their meeting in the Oval Office for a joint press conference, July 25, 2006 President Bush is moving more U.S. troops to the Iraqi capital to help
By David McAlary Washington 20 March 2007 Black Americans do not live as long as white Americans, but a new study shows that the gap in life expectancy is slowly closing. VOA's David McAlary says the findings explain some of the reasons why. Life exp
By Brian Padden Washington, D.C. 16 May 2006 watch Wheelchair Athlete report The United States is one of the most progressive countries in the world in protecting the rights of individuals with disabi
By Carol Pearson Washington 16 March 2007 watch Global Aging For the first time in history, people 65 years and older will soon outnumber children under the age of five in many parts of the world. The challenge, even for the poorest countries, is to
By David McAlary Washington 15 February 2007 A U.S. spacecraft has provided fresh evidence that water once flowed on Mars. In this case, it is water that ran deep underground through rock fissures, places where scientists say life could have thrived
By David McAlary Washington 24 August 2006 Pluto is no longer a planet. The world's top group of astronomers, the International Astronomical Union, has stripped Pluto of the status it has held since its discovery 76 years ago. The body decided that,
By Michael Bowman Washington 29 May 2007 Two days after forcing a private Venezuelan television station off the air, President Hugo Chavez has threatened to crack down on another non-governmental TV broadcaster. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Wash
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 30 March 2007 Angola has completed what is being called the largest ever repatriation of refugees in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 400,000 people who fled decades of war in Angola have returned home during the past four yea
America Marks 10 Years Since Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks Americans have marked the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people. Ceremonies were held in New York, at the Pentagon, and i
By Brian Padden Washington, DC 11 January 2007 watch MLK Volunteer report Martin Luther King, Jr. On Monday, January 15th, America commemorates the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the famous African-American leader of the civil rights movement.
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 September 2006 United Nations disaster-management experts have gone to Ivory Coast to help with the investigation of a toxic waste dumping incident that has left at least six people dead and thousands ill. ----- A man point
By Paula Wolfson White House 16 May 2007 AU.S. Army general is joining the White House staff as the top war policy coordinator. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the choice of Lieutenant General Douglas Lute followed a lengthy search for a new manager to o
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 May 2007 Attackers carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a transport vessel carrying oil workers off the southern coast of Nigeria, kidnapping four Americans late Tuesday. Gilbert da Costa reports
By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 08 June 2007 The Microsoft corporation is teaming up with African leaders to try to bring development to the continent through technology. As part of the partnership officials are holding a three-day technol