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Everyone loves something - that one thing they can't stop thinking about, learning about, and talking about with others. Whether it's ninjas, cheesecake or hairless pets, we each have things we love. Let me tell you about Sarah. Sarah's true love was
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 November 2006 Lebanon's minister of industry, a vocal anti-Syrian cabinet member, has been shot and killed in a Christian suburb of Beirut. The assassination comes at a politically tense time in the Lebanese capital. L
By Ernest Leong Washington 11 April 2007 The American major league baseball season kicked off recently, a sign spring has arrived in North America. But the game some call America's pastime is also growing in popularity around the world. VOA's Ernest
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 26 December 2006 Turkmenistan's top legislative body says a presidential election will be held on February 11 to select a successor to longtime authoritarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov, who died last week. The People's Counci
By Efam Dovi Accra 20 October 2006 Ghana has agreed to a U.N. request to contribute more troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon. The West African nation already has 700 soldiers serving in Southern Lebanon, where the security situation remains
By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 18 August 2006 watch Oil Spill report A ceasefire in the Middle East is allowing officials to assess some of the environmental damage from the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Some experts say the long-term envir
By Challiss McDonough Qana, Lebanon 19 August 2006 Funeral procession in Qana In south Lebanon, mourners have buried the victims of the Qana airstrike. Most of the people killed in the July 30 attack were women and children. Their deaths sparked int
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 August 2006 Children assist their grandmother in front of their tent in the Debbine village, south Lebanon, Aug. 25, 2006 United Nations aid agencies are planning for reconstruction and rehabilitation of war-torn Lebanon. T
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 01 May 2007 There is political turmoil in Israel after an official probe issued a damning report on the government's handling of last year's war in Lebanon. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel's emb
By Al Pessin Pentagon 21 September 2007 Last Sunday during a shoot-out in Baghdad, American security contractors from the Blackwater company, who were protecting a U.S. diplomatic convoy, killed several Iraqi civilians. Blackwater says its guards wer
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 May 2006 The government of Burundi and the country's remaining rebel group are to meet Monday for peace talks in Tanzania. The National Liberation Forces rebel group is the last holdout against efforts to end Burundi's c
Celeb Vaccine Wars: Peet Beats Maher Comedian Bill Maher advises against vaccinations. But actress Amanda Peet--and Dr. Bill Frist--have it right: vaccines are good. Steve Mirsky comments In the celebrity vaccine wars, Im siding with actress Amanda P
By Challiss McDonough Beirut 19 July 2006 watch Leaving Lebanon report American citizens wearing protective head gear wait to board a US Marines helicopter on the grounds of the US Embassy at the northern edge of the capital Beirut in Lebanon Israel
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
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 September 2006 The World Food Program (WFP) says it will wind up its food assistance program in Lebanon by the end of October because of the country's rapid recovery from the war with Israel. A two-week assessment to evalua
By Douglas Bakshian Cotabato, Philippines 13 March 2007 For the first time, the Philippine government has offered self-determination to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF, which is fighting for a Muslim homeland in the southern Philippines.
In an event at the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle marked International Women's Day. The president and first lady were joined by Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, as they note
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 14 August 2006 In the Lebanese capital, Beirut, the start of the cease-fire passed without fanfare. Many people in the capital remain skeptical that it will hold, but thousands of displaced people appeared more hopeful, le
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 06 June 2007 The Lebanese army continued to subdue Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli Wednesday. From Beirut, VOA's Margaret Besheer reports fighting has become more s
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 12 November 2009 Shirin Ebadi (file photo) Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi urged the international community Wednesday to throw its support behind a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning the lack of human rights