10.The Trial That Rocked the World John Scopes A buzz ran through the crowd as I took my place in the packed court on that sweltering July day in 1925. The counsel for my defence was the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow. Leading counsel for the

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1. Hundreds of people on both sides of a controversy over a proposed mosque and community center near Zero Ground rallied Sunday. A crowd of demonstrators against the project stood behind police barricades three blocks from the World Trade Center sit

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IN THE NEWS - International Criminal Court Calls First Defendant, From D.R.C.By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Saturday, March 25, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The world's

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Earlier we told about his rise to power, and his health problems. When he was 39 years old, FDR as he was often called became paralyzed from the

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By Jim Stevenson Tianjin, China 24 September 2007 The heavily favored U.S. women's football (soccer) team is getting much needed rest ahead of its Women's World Cup semifinal game with Brazil, VOA's Jim Stevenson has more on this unexpected benefit.

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By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 27 February 2006 Bosnian survivors demonstrate, carrying banners bearing the names of each of the more than 8,000 victims of the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica, outside the P

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Supreme Court Justice Continues Equality Fight Only the second woman in U.S. history to serve on the nations highest court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg knew she wanted to be a lawyer by her third year in college. Early inspiration It was during the red scare

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Where Players Know When to Hold 'em: World Series of Poker By Shelley Gollust, Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Friday, July 08, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Speci

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Its been a while since weve heard from our space-travelling canine character, Astropup. He returns in this two part adventure in which we discover what happened to his comrade, the Parrot Major when he was put on trial for disobeying orders. And some

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April 28th1945A violent end for Italys dictator, Benito Mussolini during the last days of World War II in Europe, Italian resistance fighters executed Mussolini and his mistress as they tried to flee the country. 1937Saddam Hussein, dictator of Ira

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By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 09 November 2006 Judges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague began hearing evidence for the first time, as prosecutors began laying out their case against a Congolese militia leader. Thomas Lubanga is accused

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 10 August 2007 Medical aid groups - fighting for access to cheap medicines for the poor - are applauding an Indian court's decision to throw out a Swiss drug company's legal challenge on patent issues. Anjana Pasricha tel

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BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) -- China will establish a center for research of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946-1948), an international military court established to try Japanese war criminals after the Second World War, it has been announced. The Na

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Australia's highest court has ruled that new laws requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging without company logos do not violate the country's constitution. The court on Wednesday ruled against four tobacco companies that challenged the law,

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