Indian Architect Wins Pritzker Prize This years top award in architecture goes to Balkrishna Doshi. This is the first time an Indian has won in the 40-year history of the award, known as the Pritzker Prize. Some compare the award to the Nobel Prize....
Record Warm Winter in Arctic, Scientists Say New weather information shows the Arctic just had its warmest winter on record. The same information also shows that sea ice hit record lows for this time of year. That means there is plenty of open water...
Writer Helen Thorpe spent one school year in a classroom in Denver, Colorado. There, she observed immigrant and refugee students who had come from different cultures. All the students were just learning to speak English. Thorpe saw the young people d...
Caty Weaver: Welcome, Penelope Poulou, our VOA movie correspondent! How are you doing? Penelope Poulou: Im great, its great to be here. CW: Well, thank you very much for doing it. Our listeners really love American movies. Watching them is one of the...
Benin, French Presidents to Discuss Returning African Artifacts French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with the president of Benin not long after he promised to return artifacts taken from Africa during colonial times. Macron will meet with Benin...
Refugee Women Get a Taste of Starting a Business When refugees arrive in a new country, they bring few possessions. But many bring something more valuable: their skills. Recently, twenty refugee women and asylum seekers met at a pop-up store in Phoen...
Stay on Your Toes! Now, its time for the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week, we explore the meaning of expressions in American English. We often take terms and examine them from head to toe -- looking at each and every de...
College Admissions: Preparing to Test Your Abilities For many would-be college students, testing is the most difficult part of the undergraduate application process. Applicants sit for hours taking tests. They answer questions about a number of subje...
Trump: Trade Wars Are Good, Easy to Win President Donald Trump is defending his plan to raise taxes on steel and aluminum imports entering the United States. Trump declared on Friday that trade wars are good, and easy to win -- a claim that some Amer...
Making Local Food More Nutritious About one in three people worldwide eats food that fills them up but lacks protein, vitamins and minerals. Health experts have a name for this situation: hidden hunger. It can lead to weakness in the bodys natural de...
