By Carol Pearson Washington 06 December 2007 A new study offers some encouragement to people who are overweight, particularly for those over the age of 60. The study suggests that fitness matters more than extra weight in terms of overall health and...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 23 November 2007 Polls show that Israelis and Palestinians support next week's international peace conference sponsored by the United States. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, they don't believe it w...
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Crufts winner 2006. Picture courtesy of the Kennel Club of Great Britain Fireworks, music and theatre have been some of the ways in which the Chinese community in Britain has been celebrating the start of the Year of the Dog it has been quite a part...
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 16 October 2007 Women are breaking gender barriers in the Philippines where an international survey shows that they hold half of all senior management positions, one of the highest levels in the world. Filipinos say that fi...
By Malcolm Brown Washington 09 October 2007 A collection of newly available photographs is shedding fresh light on those who carried out the Nazi holocaust. The public now has the chance to see the contents of an album, thought to have belonged to a...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 03 October 2007 Nairobi is home to some of the world's biggest slums, and more than half of its 3 million people live in them. Many in the slums don't even have electricity, so it was quite an event recently when a white scree...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 24 August 2007 President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the Moscow International Aviation and Space Show, the eighth such event in the Russian capital since 1993. At the opening ceremony, Mr. Putin emphasized the need to d...
By Jim Fry Washington 21 August 2007 Opinion polls in the United States show the public's approval of President Bush's performance is approaching a historic low for any modern president. The polls also show a decline in the public's embrace of the co...