Putting Slurplus Food to Good Use Every Monday, about 150 people line up in the parking lot of Christian Life Center in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Joan Oswald, whose family has lived in an emergency homeless shelter since April, got here early....
Pastor Uses Circus Animals to Help South Sudan CENTREVILLE, VIRGINIA In a church parking lot in this Washington, D.C. suburb on a clear spring day, rescued circus animals, including lions, tigers, camels, even a kangaroo, lounge in cages and pens as...
Scientists Use Satellites to Identify Groundwater Losses in the Middle East From VOA Learning English, this is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS. I'm Avi Arditti. And I'm Faith Lapidus. Today we tell about a study of groundwater losses in the Middle East. We also...
VOA Finds Evidence of Syrian Cluster Bomb Use In Azaz, Syria, in late January, Syrian government forces used what arms experts say is a particularly deadly weapon. Residents say a plane dropped nine large cluster bombs on this neighborhood on the out...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Medical Experts Debate Value of Alcohol Use This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Barbara Klein. And Im Bob Doughty. Drinking alcohol is socially acceptable behavior in many parts of the world. Some medical expe...
Lion Bones Used for Phony Aphrodisiacs A new ad campaign is underway in South Africa to stop the countrys lion bone trade. Lions are killed so their bones can be used to make fake aphrodisiacs and traditional medicines. The demand for the bones is gr...
Agriculture report - Project in DRC Aims to Increase Fertilizer Use This is the VOA Special English Agriculture report. North Kivu is a war-torn province that used to be called the breadbasket of the Congo. Now, some farmers are being trained to incr...
Agriculture report - Project in DRC Aims to Increase Fertilizer Use This is the VOA Special English Agriculture report. North Kivu is a war-torn province that used to be called the breadbasket of the Congo. Now, some farmers are being trained to incr...
Technology Report - Some Websites Judge You by the Kind of Computer You Use This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Last week, the Wall Street Journal had a report about the online travel company Orbitz. The newspaper said Orbitz shows Mac...
Pentagon's Electromagnetic Gun Awaits Use Marines stage a scene that has become more frequent for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The mock protesters are harmlessly dispersed with a high-tech device. It is called the Active Denial System. Using an electr...