BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Argentine basketball player Luis Scola on Monday said he is very nervous due to the ongoing lack of clarity in the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) conflict which has caused him not to play. Scola, 31,...
U.S. President Barack Obama led Americans on Monday in honoring the legacy of the slain civil rights leader, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. For the president, the King Day holiday has a special meaning. Mr. Obama has often talked about America's jo...
European shares extended gains by midday on Tuesday with banks rebounding from lows ahead of U.S. President George Bush's speech on the financial sector rescue package. Britain's benchmark stock index, the FTSE 100, fell by as much as 3 percent in e...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 12 July 2007 European Union officials say they are deeply concerned about the inability of the African Union to pay its peacekeeping troops in Darfur, western Sudan. An EU official tells VOA there are fears that the African Uni...
By Nico Colombant Abuja 21 April 2007 Voters in Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, have gone to the polls for a presidential and legislative election in sizable numbers, and now nervously await results. Many said they did not have much faith in...
