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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week on our program: We listen to music by several bluegrass award nominees And answer three listener questions about the United States. But first, we tell about
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 January 2008 South and Southeast Asian countries are grappling with new outbreaks of bird flu as winter weather sweeps across the region. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the latest outbreaks are still confin
By Jordan Davis Dakar 17 November 2006 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur. Many have warned violence in Darfur is spilling ove
By George Dwyer Washington 04 March 2008 For decades Washington's National Air and Space Museum has been among the city's top tourist attractions. It is an impressively large building - located within sight of the U.S. Capitol Building - and operated
American Stories - Science Fiction: A Princess of Mars' by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Part 2) BOB DOUGHTY: Now, the VOA Special English program, American Stories. (MUSIC) Last week we brought you the first of four programs called A Princess of Mars. Our s
By Richard Green Washington 21 September 2006 The space shuttle Atlantis returned to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before dawn Thursday, bringing a successful end to a mission that resumed the long-delayed construction of the International Spa
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 March 2006 Egypt says it might have its third human case of bird flu. A woman has preliminarily tested positive for the virus, but further tests are being run to confirm
By Martin Secrest Washington, D.C. 26 January 2007 watch Bird Flu report New outbreaks of bird flu are causing concern in Asia. Since the beginning of the year, there have been new bird flu cases in Thailand, Vietnam, and China. Indonesian authoriti
A senior U.N. health official warns that governments must better prepare themselves to fight an influenza pandemic should one break out. Citing a new World Bank report that says the economic price tag of an influenza outbreak could top $3 trillion,
Kasey Chambers' 'Little Bird' Takes Flight Kasey Chambers was just 11 years old when she began her career as a member of The Dead Ringer Band, a group led by her parents. In 1999, at the age of 23, Kasey released her first solo album to considerable
Nine years after the fall of the Taliban, one of the regions in Afghanistan most damaged by 30 years of war is slowly coming back to life. On Fridays many Kabulis pack into their cars and leave the traffic-jammed capital behind. They get on the Kabul
By David McAlary Washington 17 July 2006 The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has landed in Florida, ending a resupply and maintenance mission to the International Space Station. Its successful flight means the space agency NASA can finally resume const
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 October 2007 The United Nations is launching an emergency appeal for $5.4 million to help more than 90,000 flood victims in Burkina Faso. The United Nations says these floods, the worst in decades, have caused widespread dev
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 September 2007 The United Nations warns floods in West Africa could provoke an invasion of locusts in Mali and Niger. It says it is critically important that UN experts be given access to the locust-prone region so they can
By Rory Byrne Phnom Penh 21 April 2008 As in other developing countries from Egypt to Haiti, soaring inflation has recently emerged as a threat to Cambodia's hard won social stability. While wages have remained low, the prices of rice and other stapl
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 February 2008 A nascent floriculture industry in India is cashing in on growing demand for roses overseas. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi. It was just over a decade ago that a handful of entrepreneurs bega
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Argo won the Oscar Award for Best Picture Sunday night at the 85th Academy Awards Ceremony, together with Awards for Best Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay Writing. The film by Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George C
SHANGHAI, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. film giant Paramount Pictures has signed a copyright deal with BesTV New Media, a subsidiary of Shanghai Media Group, offering top movies to the Chinese audience. According to the deal, BesTV will have the copyright
As the number of swine flu cases in Australia soars past 4,500, new research indicates that indigenous people may be more susceptible to the contagious virus, compounding an array of existing health conditions. The findings have been detailed in the