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The holiday season is traditionally a time for celebration and gift giving. But for New Yorkers facing dire health, financial or other challenges, life is far from merry. For 100 years, The New York Times has published some of these hard-luck stories
The financial problems in the US are a worry not just to the United States. Many countries throughout the world will be affected. How will New Zealand be affected? Both the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, and the leader of the National Party, John Key,
走遍美国,ACT II Do you like the dress? 你喜欢这套衣服? I love it. 我喜欢。 I designed it myself. 这是我自己设计的。 It's beautiful. 它很漂亮。 Are you ready? 你准备好了吗? We
Pre-Listening Vocabulary traffic jam: the loss of vehicle flow on a roadway congestion: heavy traffic that prevents vehicles from moving quickly rely on: to require help from others haul: to carry a heavy load expressway: highway; roadway where vehic
Doctors Look to Prevent Another Ebola Epidemic Liberians celebrated the end of the Ebola epidemic after the World Health Organization made it official on May 9. But the focus now is to prevent the next Ebola outbreak from becoming an epidemic. Dr. Da
Here I am with all the pleasures of the first world Laid out before me who am I to breakdown? Every day I wake up, I choose Love I choose Light And I try, it's too easy just to fall apart Oh my baby don't be so distressed Were gonna pull your test It
The head of Spain's civil aviation said the Spanair plane that crashed in Madrid Wednesday must have suffered more than one kind of failure. Meanwhile, grieving relatives are continuing efforts to help identify the remains of the 153 people who were
The government of Zimbabwe has told a group of eminent individuals, including former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, to postpone a planned visit to the country. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesbu
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 24 September 2009 The past three years have seen an upsurge in violence perpetrated by armed groups in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta. And while attacks targeting the oil industry have been halted for now, kidnapping is on
Health providers and aid groups have mobilized to combat outbreaks of cholera in Haiti and Nigeria. Often causing extreme dysentery and dehydration, cholera arises from a strain of bacteria that is easily spread and hard to eradicate from infected zo
US Considers Sanctions Against Pakistan for Iran Pipeline After nearly 20 years, there is considerable progress on the Iran-to-Pakistan peace pipeline, with Iranian contractors starting work on Pakistani sections of the project, having finished nearl
气候变化对健康的影响 WASHINGTON The impact of climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in global health, according to the Lancet Commission report. 柳叶刀委员会的报告指出,气候变化的影响
美国呼吁消除种族歧视 The marchers in 1965 demanded an end to discrimination against African-American voters.Scenes of police violence shocked Americans and built support for laws forbidding voter discrimination. 1965年的那场游行旨在结
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The Dakota Winters isn't a novel set on frozen prairies but in the rarified precincts of maybe the most famous apartment house in New York, the Dakota on the Upper West Side, the place in which luminaries lived and, perhaps the mos
The opposition filed a new impeachment bid against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over alleged corruption, but analysts predict the bid will fail like three previous attempts. As VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins reports, the unpo
By Phuong Tran Dakar 17 August 2007 United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging the U.N. Security Council to approve a new peacekeeping force for the volatile border region between Chad and Central African Republic. The newly revised propo
The spiritual leader of the radical Somali militant group al-Shabab has sharply criticized the leadership of the breakaway region of Somaliland for having ties with Ethiopia. The radical leader also called the brand of democracy practiced in the Som
U.N. aid agencies say Zimbabwe is grappling with a cholera crisis of unprecedented proportions. They say the social and health breakdown in the country is making it difficult to gauge the full extent of the epidemic. 联合国援助机构说,津巴布
The leader of Zimbabwe's smaller opposition faction says negotiations on the country's political crisis are a three-way affair and no one party can sign a settlement deal with another. 津巴布韦反对党一个较小派别的领导人说,有关解决
Stark warnings over the inability of the international community to cope with record numbers of refugees forced to flee war zones provided the grim backdrop to events marking World Refugee Day on Saturday. According to the UN High Commission for Refu