At 75, New Deal's 'Green Towns' Endure In an effort to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelts so-called New Deal administration created a bevy of government agencies designed to help Americans r...
By Rebecca Ward Washington, D.C. 21 November 2007 Once upon a time when the world was still considered flat and Britain was not even England yet there lived a story so wonderful that it continues to be told today. VOA's Rebecca Ward has more on the e...
By Patricia Nunan Kantale, Sri Lanka 02 October 2006 watch Sri Lanka refugee report The United Nations says as many as 200,000 people in northern and eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced in recent weeks by fighting between the Tamil Tiger rebels an...