US Stocks Recover After Plunging on Bernanke Speech 美国股市开始恢复平稳 Despite very high expectations, the head of the U.S. central bank on Friday did not announce any major steps to bolster the U.S. economy. Speculation had been running...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Xinhua) - Amazon's web-services disruption issues have not been completely resolved Friday morning, as some websites still in slow recovery. Amazon said in an update early Friday that meaningful progress has been made and is...
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics are the fourth Winter Games for American long track speedskater Jennifer Rodriguez. She stopped skating after the 2006 Turin Olympics, but returned to competition in 2008 when she realized her speedskating career was unfin...
The economic recession is forcing some areas of the United States to reconsider ambitious growth plans. In the southern state of Florida, the population has actually fallen for the first time in more than 60 years. A bad economy has left a hole in Le...
Four years after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reports tremendous progress has been made in rebuilding the structures that were destroyed and in rehabilitating shattered co...
Pakistani military officials say they have recovered an American drone aircraft that crashed in a village near the Afghan border. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that locals in the region say they shot down the drone, but the military is...
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and other federal officials toured Galveston, Houston and other areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike when it made landfall Saturday. Chertoff says the first priority is to help peopl...
Government departments are speeding up reconstruction after the severe winter storms. The railway authorities as well have taken measures to ensure the smooth transport of essential supplies. Also measures have also been taken to restore agricultura...
By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 17 July 2007 Groundbreaking reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone gential mutilation is being performed in Burkina Faso. Despite efforts across Africa to stop the practice of excision, includin...
By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 22, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS, from VOA Special English. Today we tell about efforts...
