As African communities develop and modernize, proponents of traditional medicine are evolving new faces of the practice to keep up. Naomi Seck reports from a holistic healing center in Senegal's capital, Dakar, where traditional healing practices ar...
A massive underground Congressional Visitor's Center designed to accommodate millions of people visiting the U.S. Capitol each year has opened to the public. VOA's Dan Robinson reports the project, which was planned for two decades and took eight ye...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 08 May 2008 A memoir of life in a North Korean gulag is to become the latest South Korean film project aiming a spotlight at the North's human rights situation. As VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports, the book has already w...
By Jim Malone Washington 07 April 2008 The war in Iraq is once again center-stage in the U.S. presidential election campaign. All three major contenders will be in Washington Tuesday for the congressional testimony of the top U.S. commander in Iraq,...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 06 February 2008 U.S. President George Bush was among the first western leaders to congratulate Mikhail Saakashvili on his election last month to a second term as Georgia's president. In this report from Washington, VOA...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 28 November 2007 An American play that deals with the most difficult of subjects -- the ethnic hatreds in Rwanda that led to the genocidal killings of an estimated 800,000 to one million people -- has drawn critical a...
By Kane Farabaugh New York 05 November 2007 One of the hallmarks of Jimmy Carter's American presidency was a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. It brought lasting peace between two former enemies. The experience encouraged Mr. Carter to spend...
World Trade Center (Movie) In the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster, hope is still alive. Refusing to bow down to terrorism, rescuers and family of the victims press forward. Their mission of rescue and recovery is driven by the faith tha...
By Deborah Block Minneapolis, Minnesota 13 April 2007 Since 1991, thousands of people have fled war and anarchy in the East African country of Somalia, and many have settled in the United States. The largest group is in the Midwest state of Minnesota...
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 21 February 2007 watch New Discovery Center One of the newest attractions for visitors to Florida, the southernmost point in the continental United States, celebrates the undersea world in and around the famous Florida K...