By Alan Silverman Hollywood 29 October 2009 The life and tragic disappearance of pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart are dramatized in a new film starring two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and directed by Indian-born Mira Nair. Here's a look at Amelia.

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 November 2007 Hospital workers and residents in the Somali capital Mogadishu say more than 40 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded since late Thursday in battles between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgen

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By Bill Rodgers Washington. D.C. 29 March 2006 watch Civil War report A grieving widow touches her husband's coffin as it is carried to a cemetery The continuing sectarian violence in Iraq has raised

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By Jim Malone Washington 27 October 2006 Candidates from both major U.S. political parties are engaged in a furious last minute push for votes in advance of the November 7 congressional midterm elections. VOA National Correspondent Jim Malone has a

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By Tom Rivers London 04 August 2007 Foot-and-mouth disease has appeared again in Britain, six years after it sparked the widespread slaughter of about seven million cows throughout the country in an effort to contain the outbreak. For VOA, Tom Rivers

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans 19 February 2006 A float in New Orleans' Mardi Gras parade The first major parades of the Mardi Gras season rolled through the streets of New Orleans Saturday. The celebrati

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Came home in the middle of the night Father says what you're gonna do with your life Well daddy dear you're still number one Oh girls they want to have fun Oh girls they... The phone rings in the middle of the night My mother says when you gonna live

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 19 February 2007 The final resting place in India for the 16th century Mughal Emperor Humayun Humayun's tomb has pitted urban planners and environmentalists against bureaucrats. As VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi,

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 29 March 2006 Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has lashed out at the United Nations human rights envoy to Cambodia, after the diplomat criticized the country's human rights re

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Several former National Basketball Association stars are on a goodwill tour of Israel this week. Stars like Dwight Howard, Allan Houston, and Jerome Williams are hoping to heighten awareness of the professional game and give some disadvantaged kids a

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's say you were asked to monitor how much electricity you used. You would be thinking, like I really have time for that. Then again, I know some of you count your steps each day. You also track how many hours you sleep. Ingrid

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Armando Iannucci has created some of the most biting political satire on radio, TV and in the movies of the past 25 years. His latest is a political spoof about the demise of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, TH

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图片1 Harp recently went on a trip to India with her family. Have you ever been to India? Harp tells us about the weather and the food. She also tells us about shopping in India, because this was a shopping trip with Harps two sisters and mom!

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By Scott Bobb Kisumu, Western Kenya 27 February 2008 The violence following the disputed elections in Kenya killed more than1,000 people and displaced an estimated 600,000 more. Many of the displaced have been taken in by their extended families but

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 05 April 2006 For the past five years, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has headed the center-right coalition government. It has been the longest serving government

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By Cathy Majtenyi Burundi 16 May 2006 The tiny African Great Lakes nation of Burundi is the latest on the continent to institute free primary school education, which began last September following mor

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By Scott Stearns White House 14 April 2007 President Bush President Bush meets with opposition leaders who control Congress Wednesday over differences blocking additional funding for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott S

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 20 August 2007 The Israeli government has reached a compensation deal with Holocaust survivors ending a bitter feud. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, many survivors of the Nazi genocide during World War

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Lesson 175 Fun 1. It's not right to make fun of a cripple. 2. We made fun of her because she wore a strange hat. 3. Don't make fun of others when they make some mistakes. 4. She's very lively and full of fun. 5. His illness takes all the fun out of h

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A team of machine learning developers has created a system for making caricatures of peoples faces. In a caricature, the artist creates a drawing of a face, with different parts of it greatly enlarged, or exaggerated, in other ways. The pictures or i

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