Paris Exhibit Captures Mandela's Journey In front of Paris city hall sits a bleak reminder of South Africa's apartheid regime. It's a reproduction of the Robben Island prison cell where Mandela spent 18 years in captivity. It's part of an exhibition...
Chinese women's short-track relay team captures World Cup gold MONTREAL, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- China capped off the second ISU World Cup short-track meet of the season in strong fashion as the women's relay team won the 3,000-meter relay final Sunday,...
Libyan Military Captures Gadhafi's Fugitive Son A Libyan revolutionary militia commander from the town of Zintan announced Saturday that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was captured alive in southern Libya, near...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - 'J. Edgar': Eastwood, DiCaprio Aim to Capture Life of First FBI Director DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we play music from American Idol winner Scotty McCreery ... And...
US Poet Laureate Captures Struggles of Working Class 美国新桂冠诗人菲利普列文 America's newest poet laureate is Detroit native Philip Levine, 83, who is known for capturing the poignancy and grit of a now-vanished industrial America, and...
By Tom Rivers London 05 October 2009 Three U.S.-based scientists have won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery into how chromosomes are copied and protected. The work casts important light on cancer and the aging process. . Elizabet...
In Sri Lanka, the military says it has captured key areas held by Tamil Tiger rebels, in the north of the country. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the Sri Lankan army is on a major offensive to crush the rebels, who have been fighting for...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 14 March 2008 The U.S. Defense Department announced Friday that it has taken custody of a senior al-Qaida official, who is now being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon...
By VOA Sports Washington, DC 01 December 2007 The United States has taken an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Russia to capture the Davis Cup tennis title for the first time in 12 years. In front of a cheering crowd in Portland, Oregon, the world number one...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 26 October 2006 The Islamic Courts Union has taken control of another town in Somalia, raising fears that scheduled peace talks between it and the transitional Somali government may not take place. The town of Sakow, 170 ki...