Authorities in Western Australia say they can show the world how to conquer a water crisis that had threatened to decimate the state capital, Perth, amid a long-standing drought and declining rainfall. Desalination is at the heart of Western Austral...
U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday the biggest economic stimulus plan in the nation's history. The almost $800 billion in government spending and tax cuts is designed to get America's economy back on track. President Barack Obama si...
Hillary Clinton arrives Monday in Japan, the first of four stops in Asia - her first official foreign travel as secretary of state. She will also visit South Korea, Indonesia and China to build partnerships she says will transcend geographic and pol...
Callum: Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is entertainment. In the programme today I'm going to be looking at sounds and talking about sounds we like. Sounds and noises are all around us from the sounds of nature such as the wind in the trees to...
Israeli warplanes continue to hit suspected Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, Palestinian militants are keeping up their rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli border communities. Smoke rises following an Israeli missile strike in nor...
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the court might soon decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide in the war-torn Da...
本杰明请来了电脑维修人员，经检查发现电脑是由于受到了病毒感染而死机，原来本家的电脑没有装杀毒软件，不想当电脑盲的话，看来只好恶补电脑知识了。 Listen Read Learn Repairman: What can I do? Benjamin: The system crashed when I was surfing on the internet....
A look back at a few of the most important programs that NASA has carried out in half a century of exploration. Transcript of radio broadcast: 29 July 2008 VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Earth and the moon as photographed by the Apollo 11...
South Korea has suspended a high profile tourist program to North Korea after a North Korean soldier shot and killed a South Korean woman on holiday at the special tourism enclave. The woman was apparently intruding in a restricted area off limits t...
Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Sichan Siv has written a new book, called Golden Bones, that tells how he survived the Khmer Rouge terror in his native land and came to prosper in the United States. As VOA's Greg Flaku...
