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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Mystery In Sky Over North Carolina; Holiday for the Dead; Chart Climbing Music Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On our show this week, we play some music that is climbing the popularity charts And te
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 19 January 2007 watch Big Brother Bollywood Accusations of racism leveled at a British television program have sparked outrage on the streets and in the highest levels of government in both Britain and India. The stag
By Kane Farabaugh Cincinnati, Ohio 26 October 2006 watch report Ohio Battleground The midwestern state of Ohio was a key battleground state in the 2004 election. President George Bush ultimately won the state, a victory that assured his second term
By Meredith Buel Washington 19 September 2006 Leaders of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel working to assess the situation in Iraq and make recommendations to lawmakers and the Bush administration, say the next three months will be critical i
By Greg Flakus Houston 30 May 2006 Dozens of volunteers with the anti-illegal immigration group known as the Minutemen spent their Memorial Day holiday in the hot sun along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, building a fence to stop illegal crossing
By Nathan King New York, New York 15 January 2007 watch South Africa report South Africa made diplomatic history this month by taking its seat for a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council, and the country hopes to become an influential
By Noel King Khartoum 23 January 2006 African Heads of State pose of a group photo outside the Friendship Hall in Khartoum, Sudan during the opening of Sixth African Union Summit, Monday, Jan. 23, 200
By Michael Drudge London 07 February 2006 Supporters clear a path for Abu Hamza al-Masri, center, following Friday prayers in the street outside the Finsbury Park Mosque, in London, Feb. 7, 2003 A Bri
By Catherine Maddux Washington 19 December 2006 A recent report issued by the Council on Foreign Relations says unresolved tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea could inflame an already dangerous situation in neighboring Somalia. VOA's Catherine Mad
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 27 October 2006 If you had an extra $50 billion to put to good use, which problems would you solve first? That is the question United Nations ambassadors and senior officials are asking themselves at a conference und
By Tendai Maphosa London 21 June 2007 The perception that young black Britons are more likely to get involved in crime is being countered by a recently released report that details racial profiling and discrimination in the British legal system. Tend
Arrests of illegal aliens along the US/Mexico border have increased over the past year according to records of the US Department of Homeland Security. The records show a 73 percent increase in arrests and prosecutions over the past year. Officials a
Addressing parliament Thursday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled the specifics of next year's British military withdrawal from Iraq after what will be six years of deployment. Gordon Brown has rejected an early inquiry into why his country went
Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a return to old-fashioned, conservative banking practices. It is a change for Mr. Brown who as Treasury Secretary for a decade was a proponent of the light regulator
By Michael Drudge London 15 May 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country's criminal justice system is in disrepair, after judges gave freedom to a group of Afghan hijackers, and a convi
By Jeff Custer Washington 05 August 2006 With backdrop of US Border Patrol keeping watch on Rio Grande River, George Bush speaks to a group about immigration policy in Mission, Texas, Aug. 3, 2006 President Bush is urging Congress to adopt an immigr
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 April 2007 The Eritrean government has banned the practice of female genital mutilation. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Proclamation 158 went into force on the last day of March. It mandates jail terms or fi
By Gary Thomas London 08 August 2006 Tony Blair British Prime Minister Tony Blair is calling for the rapid approval of a U.N. Security Council resolution to halt hostilities in the Middle East. But, the British leader warns against any resolution th
By Tendai Maphosa London 12 June 2008 A senior intelligence official has been suspended following discovery that confidential documents related to Iraq and the activities of al-Qaida were left on a passenger train. The documents were were later hand
In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged the United States to seize the opportunity to expand cooperation with Europe to solve the world economic crisis and tackle other issues. British Pri