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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Team USA won the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition in Lyon, France, this week. It was the first time the USA has won in the contest's 30-year history. It's like the World Cup for chefs, bringing together teams from Guat
OrleansJack was asleep. He was dreaming that he wassleeping on a boat. It was rocking back and forth,back and forth.... Jack.Jack opened his eyes. It was just getting lightoutside. Rain was tapping against the window-pane. Tappity -tap-tap.Jack close
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Do you remember the movie Precious? There were all these big names attached to the film. Oprah was the executive producer. Lee Daniels directed it. But the young woman at the center of the Oscar-nominated movie was far from
Over 20 media leaders from 15 countries share their experience and promote the voice of Asia, as well as invigorate the media and work together to create a new media landscape during the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in Boao, Hainan province
Todd: So on your bike trip, how did you feed yourself. What did you eat? Julia: Hydration was a thing that we worried about. We were able to stop every few kilometres and get fresh young coconuts with the straw in the top. Did you remember doing that
Todd: So Julia, I was looking at your website and I noticed that you did a bike trip in Cambodia. Julia: Yes, that's right. I joined an organization called Pepi and we did a ride from Siem Reap to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City. Todd: Wow, that's pretty c
Todd: What were the road conditions like that you were riding on? Julia: I'd say at least half, maybe more than half were unpaved roads. Thankfully Cambodia is very flat so it wasn't so difficult. We averaged about seventy, eighty kilometres a day bu
By Lisa Bryant Paris 31 October 2007 A Spanish court found 21 people guilty and acquitted seven others of involvement in 2004 train bombings in Madrid, closing a trial on the most deadly Islamist terrorist attack to date in Europe. Lisa Bryant has mo
By Tendai Maphosa London 17 October 2007 A memorial to the late South African fighter against apartheid, Oliver Tambo, has been unveiled in London. Tendai Maphosa attended the event for VOA in the neighborhood in which Tambo and his family lived duri
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. Today we tell about the American plant scientist Norman Borlaug. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase food product
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 28 March 2008 Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast has been the center of a bloody 20-year conflict between the Turkish state and Kurds fighting for autonomy. For decades, the region has remained one of the poorest in the
US four-man bobsled team, captured gold medal Saturday at Vancouver Winter Games Parke Brewer | Whistler Sliding Center, BC, Canada 28 February 2010 Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS The United States' USA-1,' with Steven Holcomb, Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler, a
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: People who live in places with lots of Chinese immigrants are receiving robocalls that sound like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE #1: (Speaking Mandarin). CORNISH: A person who doesn't speak M
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Florida gubernatorial election has started out with issues of race at the center. The morning after the primary last week, Republican nominee Ron DeSantis told voters not to monkey up the state by electing his Democratic oppo
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bobi Wine says the people who tortured him in an ambulance last month unscrewed an overhead light bulb to hide the beatings from the press. Bobi Wine is a politician and a pop star in Uganda, where he's been an outspoken critic of
By Doug Levine Washington 02 June 2008 Early rock 'n' roll guitar wizard Bo Diddley died near Jacksonville, Florida, Monday, 2 June, of heart failure. He was 79 years old. One of the most primitive of the early rockers, Bo took the blues and folk mu
By Steve Baragona Washington 16 September 2009 Norman Borlaug Photo courtesy Texas AM University Norman Borlaug, an American plant breeder credited with saving millions from starvation in the 1960s and '70s, died September 12 at the age of 95. Borla
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 19 November 2007 Turkey is still massing tens of thousands soldiers on the Iraqi border, a response to a series of attacks by Kurdish militants that have claimed the lives of more than 50 soldiers and civilians. Rebels of the
By Brian Wagner Medellin, Colombia 03 June 2008 U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is calling on Colombia's neighbors to help stop Colombian guerrillas from cross-border operations in jungle regions of South America. VOA's Brian Wagner h
By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 November 2007 Australian cricket authorities are locked in a dispute with major news organizations over coverage of test matches. Cricket Australia, the game's governing body, has demanded that news groups hand over rights to