With Tuesday's Senate vote approving its version of economic recovery legislation, the focus has shifted to a House-Senate conference committee beginning work on resolving differences between slightly different versions of the measure. Tough bargain...
The top U.N. humanitarian official says that conflict, drought, and the global food crisis are worsening the already dire situation in the Horn of Africa. This has left millions of people needing emergency food assistance to combat severe food short...
The State Department says it is overjoyed by the Colombian military rescue of 15 hostages - including three U.S. military contractors - held captive for years by FARC guerrillas. U.S. officials say the operation Wednesday reflects broader gains by t...
By Paul Sisco Washington 08 May 2008 Engineer Hy Brown was the chief engineer of the U.S. World Trade Center in New York City. Years after the terrorist attacks in 2001, he has found a new passion-- developing pre-fabricated solar powered houses in I...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 January 2008 Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have held their first bilateral talks since U.S. President George Bush visited Israel and the Palestinian territories last week. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusal...
By Kane Farabaugh New York 13 April 2007 Watch West Point Training Each year hundreds of cadets become officers when they graduate from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Since 2003, many of the graduates have passed through the acad...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 01 April 2007 Difference of switching many of the city's lights is shown in this combo taken one week apart in Sydney, on 24 Mar 2007, above, and 31 Mar 2007, below Parts of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, plunged into near da...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 07 March 2007 watch Ethiopian President Hopeful Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis In the wake of Ethiopia's military action in Somalia to remove Islamist forces from Mogadishu, Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorg...
By Scott Stearns White House 28 March 2006 White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card President Bush has replaced his chief of staff. The move follows calls from some within his own political party to sha...