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Duo Civil Wars Releases Debut Album While Joy Williams and John Paul White of the Civil Wars may sound like they're in love when singing some of the songs on their debut, the pair is not in a romantic partnership, just a musical one. The duo recently
Civil Society Pushing for Arms Trade Treaty Final negotiations begin in July on the Arms Trade Treaty. The agreement would control the global trade in conventional weapons from rifles to tanks to warships. This week, the last round of preliminary tal
'Revenge of Electric Car' Takes a Wild Ride In his 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car , filmmaker Chris Paine examined the birth and premature death of battery electric cars in the mid-1990s. Now Paine is back with the commercial release o
Turkey's controversial Ilisu dam project has been dealt a severe blow. An international consortium of German, Austrian and Swiss companies withdrew their financial support last week, accusing Turkey of failing to meet environmental concerns and comm
US Oil Surge Could Impact Mideast Geopolitics The IEA report describes a 'supply shock' from the United States rippling through world oil markets. The key to it is the resurgence of shale development in the United States, John Mitchell, an oil market
Nick Cave素有音乐界颓废诗人之称,还有黑暗王子 哥特之王,痛苦批发商也是他的代名词, 在他的音乐里处处散发着一种无以名状的另界魔性和孤傲的诗人情怀。 They call me The Wild Rose-By Nick Cave (他们叫我野玫瑰) But my name was Elisa Day (但我的名字是Elisa D
By Kurt Achin Seoul 04 October 2007 The two Koreas have signed a cooperation pact that for the first time puts North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's personal signature on a pledge to end to his nuclear weapons programs. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from S
By Sarah Simpson Lagos 01 June 2007 At least three foreigners have been kidnapped by gunmen and two people injured in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt Friday. The incident comes days after new President Umaru Yar'Adua called for an end to
Measuring the brightnesses and colors of the stars in the globular cluster, we can figure out how old they are. Here is the remarkable thing: they are very old. Globular clusters, at least the stars in the globular clusters, in many cases, are almost
It's really a wonderful time to be an astronomer, especially in studies of Milk Way. Were undergoing something for revolution. In fact, we can take you places. They're really quite remarkable. We are about to embark on an amazing journey. We'll take
Now, of course, I can't show you a picture of the galaxy on our screen. We can't fly above the galaxy and take a picture of it, and show you. We're stuck in the disc of the galaxy, but we can still image it from the ground, in fact, this image is a p
By comparing the detailed images, Hubble has taken another spiral galaxy. With the best images of our own taken from the ground, and by using satellites to measure the distance and density of stars in different directions, astronomers have been able
This is a picture of the Orion Nebula in visible light. We can see all of the gas here located in front of what we know are stars in the background, and we want to be able to look inside this nebula/ and see the stars. In infrared light in this image
Beginners. On my recent trip to New Zealand, I met lots of different people. In Los Angeles, where I waited to catch the plane to Aukland, I met three older ladies who were going on the same trip. We sat in the airport and chatted. They were very int
By Paula Wolfson Sao Paulo, Brazil 09 March 2007 The United States and Brazil have entered a new partnership to promote the production of ethanol around the world. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the two countries signed a
By June Soh and Rosanne Skirbble New Orleans 12 May 2006 watch Wildlife Refuge report Louisiana wildlife refuge with hurricane demage The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was one for the record books: 2
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 September 2006 This school building in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon sustained heavy damage after the Isreali military campaign UNICEF says it is working with the Education Ministry in Lebanon to have 350,000 Lebanese children in sch
A South Korean lawmaker says the country's intelligence service has testified that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is recovering from a stroke. North Korean officials say Kim Jong Il is just fine, and reject a proliferation of media reports that hav
By Ravi Khanna New York City 12 June 2007 The Bronx Zoo these days has a special attraction for visitors -- a snow leopard from Pakistan. Leo landed at the zoo last year after his mother was killed and authorities found him confused and wandering in
By Jim Randle Washington, D.C. 02 January 2007 watch Iraq Oil report Iraq's Kurds, Sunnis, and Shi'ites are bickering over how to distribute the nation's potentially vast oil revenue. In the meantime, energy officials are trying to rebuild the batte