VOA标准英语2011--Incumbent Liberian President Leading in Early Returns First results from Liberia's presidential election show incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf leading her 15 rivals. Reporting results from just over 16 percent of more th...
2nd Digital Revolution is Potential Bonanza for Innovative Startups The buzz was palpable at Internet Week New York, a digital culture festival. With more than 300,000 workers employed in New York's technology sector, and nearly $2 billion in dot-com...
New Yellow Fever Vaccine Shows Promise A new vaccine for yellow fever is showing good results in tests as it overcomes one of the biggest problems with the current version. Yellow fever is a deadly disease that occurs in much of South America and sub...
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Algiers' historic Casbah, or old quarter, bears the hallmarks and the scars of the country's turbulent past. During the bloody black decade of Algeria's 1990s civil war, the Casbah was the feared bastion of Isl...
Members of the wealthy Rockefeller family of New York helped establish the Museum of Modern Art and revive the old Cloisters medieval museum, both in New York City. The Rockefellers contributed to the restoration of Versailles Palace in France. And t...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that world powers have made no decision to arm Libyan rebels, but that the U.N. resolution authorizing the allied air campaign against Libyan government forces does not preclude that. Clinton spoke...
Not long ago, a VOA colleague of ours was building a cabinet, and he wanted to put wheels on it so it could be moved easily about the room. This got us thinking. We hear a lot about the struggles of America's manufacturing sector - automobiles, appli...
Residents of eastern Libya under the control of opponents of leader Moammar Gadhafi are reacting with approval to President Barack Obama's remarks Monday night on the international coalition's role in their country's conflict. But many say they wish...
Paying tribute to The Beatles is a time-honored tradition for many of today's pop and rock artists. But one recent tribute comes from a band which specializes in jazz and funk. New York trio Soulive, featuring Neal Evans on Hammond B-3 organ, his bro...
If you're planning a trip to the United States, be very careful. You could easily break one of our laws and not know it. We're not talking about obvious illegal behavior, like punching your taxi driver or throwing a chair through your hotel window. N...
