A young man was walking through a super market to pick upa few things when he noticed an old lady following him. Pardon me, she said. I'm sorry if my staring at youhas made you feel uncomfortable. It's just that you lookjust like my son, who died rec...
Little Johnny says Mom, when I was on the bus with Daddy this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.Well, you've done the right thing, says MommyBut Mommy, I was sitting on daddy's lap(膝盖)....
I have lived in my neighborhood for twenty years. It seems to me that Ive spent at least ten of those years looking for a lost pet, either mine or one Id seen listed in the newspapers lost-pet column. Recently, I was at it again, going door-to-door...
BBC Learning English People and Places Tractor Lady Jackie: Hello, welcome to bbclearningenglish.com. I'm Jackie Dalton Manon It's a 31 year old German tractor and it's green, with red inside the wheels. Jackie: and this is the Dutch actress Manon O...
By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires 29 October 2007 Supporters of Argentina's first lady are celebrating her overwhelming victory in Sunday's presidential election. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Buenos Aires, where Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will...
By Michael Bowman Buenos Aires 29 October 2007 Argentina has, for the first time, elected a woman president. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the current first lady and a senator, will take the reins of power from her husband, outgoing President Nesto...
By Anita Elash Paris 23 July 2007 The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Libya Monday for a second time to negotiate the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison for allegedly contaminating chi...
By Greg Flakus Austin, Texas 16 July 2007 Rev. Richard Elwood, blesses the grave at the burial for Lady Bird Johnson at the Lyndon Baines Johnson National Historical Park in Stonewall, Texas, 15 July 2007 Former First Lady Claudia Lady Bird Johnson w...
By Greg Flakus Houston 12 July 2007 Former First Lady and environment champion Lady Bird Johnson has died at her home in Texas. The widow of President Lyndon Johnson was 94 and had been in failing health for some time. VOA's Greg Flakus has more abou...
By Kari Barber Dakar 26 June 2007 United States First Lady Laura Bush started a five-day, four-country tour of Africa with a stop in Dakar, Senegal. Kari Barber reports for VOA from Dakar that Mrs. Bush toured a hospital HIV/AIDS center and met with...