Syria Conflict Stokes Calls for Global Arms Treaty Last February in Homs, Syria, photojournalist Paul Conroy witnessed his colleague, Sunday Times writer Marie Colvin, killed in a rocket attack. Conroy has now joined activists with the Control Arms C...
Global Foods Vie for US Market Mame Diene remembers the ancient baobab tree in the courtyard of her family home. As a child, she was not allowed to climb it or cut its branches. Now, she honors these trees of Senegal by selling their powder as a natu...
Education Report - Using Student Writing to Teach Global Issues This is the VOA Special English Education Report. One World Education is a nonprofit group based in Washington. The group has a program in which teachers develop curriculum based on stud...
Groups Resisting Global Polio Vaccination Efforts Health officials in Pakistan say they are redoubling efforts to vaccinate every child against polio after 198 new cases were reported in the country last year, the largest number anywhere in the world...
Education Report - Using Student Writing to Teach Global Issues 教育报道 - 使用学生作品来教导全球性问题 This is the VOA Special English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。 One World Education is a nonp...
Former Ghana President to Lead Global Fight Against Tropical Diseases It is truly an honor to declare my acceptance for the position just offered to me, he said. Former President Kufuor will now be the lead advocate for controlling and eliminating so...
The head of the International Monetary Fund says the global economy is improving after a difficult time, but remains fragile. In a Tuesday speech to journalists in Washington, Christine Lagarde warned against complacency or insularity. She said Europ...
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China will strive to become a leader in global shipbuilding by 2015, the country's industrial authority said Monday. Over the next three years, the industry's structure will become more rational, and its innovation and o...
Global Polio Eradication Gets Major Boost Staff Benda Bilili, a group of eight former street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo, are singing their signature song Polio. Four of the musicians are disabled polio victims. They sing about the disease that dr...
Using Ingenuity to Combat Global Water Crisis Much of the work goes on in Well Dones headquarters building south of San Francisco. Designers work to create compelling logos and user-friendly web layouts to spread the word on global water shortages. T...