Teruko Yahata is 85 years old. Teruko Yahata现年85岁。 But she could have died as a girl. 但她本可能在小时候就死了。 She was in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. 1945年8月...
Damage to roads and bridges is delaying rescue efforts in Myanmar's western Rakhine State after a powerful ocean storm struck Sunday. 周日，一场强大的海洋风暴袭击了缅甸西部若开邦，导致道路和桥梁受损，延误了救援工作...
Thailand's two main opposition parties won big in the general election and have agreed to seek a ruling coalition to replace the current military-backed government. 泰国两个主要反对党在大选中大获全胜，并同意组建一个执政联盟...
Franklin Pierce: Ineffective VOA Learning English presents America's Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. He took office in 1853 at age 48. At that time, he was the youngest person elected t...
The midwestern U.S. state of Kansas is one of the country's top grain-producing states. But farmers there are having to kill or plow over their winter wheat crop after a bad growing season. Farmers plant winter wheat in the autumn and it grows during...
New US Aircraft Carrier Arrives in Norway for NATO Exercises Norway's armed forces welcomed a nuclear American aircraft carrier on Wednesday. Norway called the U.S. its most important ally on the arrival of the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford. The huge warship...
Petro Nikitin is the lead trauma surgeon at a military hospital in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. The 59-year-old doctor works to repair the bodies of some of the most badly injured soldiers. I only operate, Nikitin said as his team continued surgery on a...
Failure of US to Pay Debt Raises Fears of Financial Crisis The United States government has a history of paying its bills on time. Many people, however, are worried about what would happen if the U.S. defaults on debt that it owes lenders. Default me...
Brazil Rejects Offshore Oil Drilling Request from State Oil Company Brazil's environmental agency recently refused to give oil company Petrobras permission to search for oil under the ocean near the mouth of the Amazon River. Petrobras is Brazil's st...
Dispute Centered around Redevelopment of Historic Tokyo Park, Stadiums Tokyo's governor is a major supporter of a building project that is raising concerns among sports fans, history fans and environmentalists. Critics say the redevelopment plan for...
