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Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web. He received a knighthood from the British Queen for his efforts (so he is called Sir). He is director of W3C, which looks after the Webs development. A leading B
By Julie Donnelly Washington 12 June 2007 A new self-help craze is sweeping the United States called The Secret. Like many other personal development programs, it aims to harness the power of positive thinking. Julie Donnelly has more from Washington
By Meredith Buel Washington 17 April 2007 Leaders from countries throughout the world are offering their condolences to victims of the brutal massacre at a U.S. university that left 33 people dead, including the gunman. VOA correspondent Meredith Bue
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 08 November 2006 As the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meet in Vietnam next week, questions have been raised whether the grouping can meet its free trade goal four years from now. The collapse of
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 20 March 2006 watch Competitiveness report Technology leaders say the United States is losing its competitive edge to developing countries in Asia. As VOA's Mil Arcega rep
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 A shortwave radio might seem like ancient technology these days. But for some people, it remains their only link to the wider world. 短波收音机如今
By Peter Heinlein New York 17 September 2006 President Bush heads a long list of world leaders and government ministers gathering in New York this week for the annual U.N. General Assembly debate. This year's event takes on added significance, with
By David Gollust State Department 24 May 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reported progress Wednesday in London talks among senior diplomats of the five permanent U.N. Security Council member
By David Gollust State Department 01 June 2006 Foreign ministers of major world powers meeting in Vienna have reached agreement on a package of incentives for Iran to halt sensitive nuclear activities
Leaders of the world's 20 major economies get down to work Thursday as they meet in London to try to find common ground for greater cooperation to stem the global economic crisis. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel (l) and President Barack Obama dur
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 10 June 2006 Group of Eight finance ministers meeting in Russia say world economic growth continues, but they warned it is threatened by soaring costs for oil and gas. The ministers met in Russia's second city of St. Petersb
Next, America's sex pioneers. Stories about how sex help found our nation and shaped our history. Ben Franklin and the French set it up. The puritans get down and dirty. A heavy-weight champ fights for his life. And sex super charges the auto industr
But not everyone was interested in following their puritans' strict rules, especially when it came to sex. -Amist of these puritans' colonies, along came a very charismatic and interesting libertarian by the name of Thomas Morton, who started up a co
But America's sex pioneers are limited to the bedroom, because there is nothing like sex to bring up the American can do spirit. But you're to be surprised to discover just to the first America's sex pioneers were no other than the straight l* Purita
By Parke Brewer Berlin 03 July 2006 The official charity campaign of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany is 6 Villages for 2006. It's a joint fundraising project between football's world governing body (FIFA) and the international non-governmental o
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 April 2006 Trade experts from all over Africa met Wednesday in the Kenyan capital as part of the African Union's Ministers of Trade conference. The conference's aim is to
Representatives from the United States, Russia, China and three European Union nations have been meeting in Germany to discuss steps to take in dealing with Iran and its nuclear program. Analysts say there is a shift in tone toward Iran that may tra
By David Gollust Washington 13 September 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday foreign ministers of major world powers will meet in New York as early as next week to discuss sanctions against Iran. U.S. officials believe Iran has b
For all our research, resources, technology and collective intelligence theres still way more that we dont know about managing the human body, than we do. We like to think were more enlightened than ever but in many ways were still failing miserably
By Deborah Block Washington, DC 03 August 2006 watch Call for Peace report Hezbollah guerrillas Wednesday fired a record number of rockets into Israel. Israel commandos raided the militant group's strongholds deep inside Lebanon. Top officials from