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What Are You Doing on New Year's Eve? In America, the best-known place to be on December thirty-first is Times Square in New York City. Hundreds of thousands of people gather in the cold. They crowd together and wait for midnight. The people count do
Tens of thousands of protesters have again flooded the streets of Egypts main cities, demanding an end to Hosni Mubaraks rule. The death toll has now passed 100. And the Egyptian military is attempting to assert its authority, but the protesters are
the international red cross says declared Syria is now in full scale civil war and subjected to Geneva Conventions .Syria denies that heavy artillery was used in the attack on the village of Tremseh or that was a massacre .UN observers are continuing
1. At least three people in two states will split the 448.4-million-dollar Powerball jackpot. Two winning tickets were sold in New Jersey and one was sold in Minnesota. One store owner in New Jersey says he will give his proceeds for selling a winnin
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When fighters for ISIS abandoned their capital, they left behind a deadly parting gift. Islamic State fighters salted that city, Raqqa, with explosive booby traps. Now, young Syrian men are training to remove them. NPR's Tom Bowm
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Giving a family a school voucher doesn't guarantee a child a better education. We're about to hear how Milwaukee's African-American community has been struggling with this. The city has the nation's longest-running publicly funde
今天我们要学的词是endanger。 Endanger, 意思是带来威胁。维基揭密公布了大批美国机密外交电文。 The White House condemned the release and said the disclosures might endanger U.S. informants abroad, 白宫对维基揭密公
One an old route humans took when they first migrated from Africa into Europe seems that they might have marched the path. Not like constant grettle who consciously left bright chromes, ancient humans ate as they tracked and they are appeared to have
The dunes are so big, up to 120 meters in fact, that they are permanent structures. The wind can do little to alter their size and shape. And like the cave yesterday, they contain some secrets. Long after the Homo sapiens first introduced shellfish i
By Sarah Simpson Nairobi 01 November 2007 Residents are continuing to flee Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu, making the most of a lull in fighting following one of the most violent weekends in recent months. Aid workers and local journalists say
By Mandy Clark London 26 December 2007 Many surgical procedures taken for granted in the West are not available to the world's poorest people. Yet, a dedicated crew of doctors and nurses, aboard Mercy Ships, bring hope and healing to those in need, w
By Nathan King New York City 26 February 2008 The United Nations last year made a landmark declaration on the rights of the world's estimated 370 million indigenous people. And the U.N.'s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues says thousands of the ind
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban told thousands of supporters Monday night they would continue their campaign until they win or lose, placing no time limit upon the shutdown. This Shutdown Bangkok will go on until we know whether we have won or lost.
By Lisa Bryant Paris 11 February 2008 Some 50,000 pilgrims are expected in the southwestern French town of Lourdes Monday to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the reported sighting of the apparition of the Virgin Mary by a 14-year-old shepherd girl.
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 09 April 2007 Tens of thousands of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr responded to his call for mass demonstrations in the Shiite holy city of Najaf Monday. From Baghdad, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more. F
Thousands March for Climate Action in Durban Activists, rights groups and citizens from around the world took to the streets of Durban Saturday to urge government negotiators at the U.N. climate change conference to take their demands seriously. In a
Christians around the world are observing Good Friday, marking the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Robert Berger | Jerusalem 02 April 2010 Christians pilgrims hold wooden crosses as they walk past a Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl through Jerusalem's
Fruit processing company SPC Ardmona is facing an uncertain future after Federal cabinet knocks back its request for financial assistance. The company was asking for 25 million dollars to help restructure its operations. Thousands of jobs in the Vict
Thousands of people have gathered at candle-lit vigils around the country for the asylum seeker who was killed on Manus Island last week. Twenty-three-year-old Iranian man Reza Berati died during a violence at a detention centre last Monday. Immigrat
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 02 November 2007 Tens of thousands of people in Tbilisi are protesting against the government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who came to power following demonstrations that swept aside his predecessor in 2003. VOA