European shares extend their rally into a third day Thursday. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London has details. Encouraged by the U.S. Federal Reserve half a percentage point interest rate cut, European markets, as in Asia, have picked up some lost ground...
Taking their lead from Asia, the European markets are kicking off the week in another gloomy mood. Meanwhile, Britain's prime minister has been defending his plans to increase government borrowing in an effort to combat the economic downturn. For VO...
Asian share prices have fallen for a third day as investors feared a global recession would badly hit company earnings. Japan's Nikkei index closed at a five-and-a-half year low, down 9.6 percent after the country's electronics giant Sony halved its...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 11 December 2007 Police say about 40 West Africans are feared dead after a failed boat crossing by would-be illegal migrants to Europe. Some of the survivors say they will try again, despite barely escaping death and throwing d...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 09 November 2007 The author Ken Foster has shared stories of people and their canine companions in a popular book called Dogs I Have Met. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan spoke with the writer about the things dog lovers have lear...
By Greg Flakus Houston 16 October 2007 In recent months food costs in the United States have gone up by well over six percent and some economists see government-mandated use of bio-fuels as a key reason. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Houston...
By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 15 October 2007 The 2007 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics will be shared by three Americans, Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson. From Stockholm, Kevin Billinghurst reports for VOA. The three are hono...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 04 September 2007 Humans could get to Mars in less than 10 years, if they put their minds to it. That is the message of the Mars Society, a group of scientists and space enthusiasts who met recently in Los Angeles. VOA'...
Renee Montagne: All this week we have been talking about your privacy, today we will meet a man who keeps very little private, in fact, puts his life online with a sound track. This music greets web surfers at a blog for Jonathon Coulson. There he w...
By David Byrd Bethesda, Maryland 06 July 2007 K.J. Choi South Korea's K.J. Choi and Australian Stuart Appleby share the lead headed into the third round of the inaugural ATT National golf tournament in suburban Washington. AS VOA's David Byrd reports...