Russian arms control researcher Igor Sutyagin stands behind bars as he listens to the verdict as he is sentenced to 15-years in prison for spying, at a courtroom in Moscow, 7 Apr 2004 (file photo) The lawyer for a scientist imprisoned for espionage i...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. In 2005, Steven Johnson wrote a book called Everything Bad is Good For You. He proposed that popular culture is actually making us smarter. Because thing...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. Mozart was a genius. Duke Ellington, genius. Ringo Starr? Well, Ringo may be smarter than you think. Because a new study from Stockholm shows that people w...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. World leaders agreed this week to protect all nuclear materials within four years to stop the possibility of nuclear terrorism. Leaders from forty-seven countries gathered in Washington for President Obama'...
First Up: Threat Assessment AZUZ: First up, the heads of several U.S. intelligence agencies have the same outlook on the country's security. During a Senate hearing on Tuesday, they said that in the next three to six months, it is certain that there...
1. Ten Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country have been charged with child kidnapping. The church group says they were just trying to help the quake victims. 2. Authorities say the Nigerian suspect in the failed...
A Turkish soap opera that depicted the Israeli intelligence service Mossad spying inside Turkey and kidnapping Turkish babies has become the center of an increasingly bitter diplomatic dispute between Israel and Turkey. Once, close allies, relations...
The top US defense intelligence officer says it is not clear how successful Pakistan's military operations have been in reducing the Taliban threat to US and NATO troops. The chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency tells VOA the Pakistani army shoul...
The suicide bomber who killed 7 CIA employees on a US base in eastern Afghanistan was seen, on Saturday, in a pre-attack video alongside Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud. In the video, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, a Jordanian, says he w...
Mexico Drug Cartel Chief Killed On December 16, Mexican marines stormed a luxury apartment in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City, and killed Arturo Beltran Leyva, head of one of the country's largest drug trafficking organizations. A couple of weeks later,...
