MADRID, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid took their second victory, a 2-1 win, over eternal rivals, FC Barcelona in just five days on Saturday afternoon in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Although the game had appeared as if it was to be slightly de-ca...
Classic Fairy Tale Gets Hollywood Makeover in 'Mirror, Mirror' QUEEN Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? MIRROR Snow White. PRINCE Snow White? QUEEN Ugh. Once upon a time, a very vain queen discovers that her fabled beauty is...
One of the world's most popular romantic novels, first published in 1847, has been made into more than 25 feature films and television adaptations. The latest to take on the Charlotte Bronte classicJane Eyre is American director Cary Joji Fukunaga wi...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- American Andy Roddick eased into third round of the ATP Washington Classic tennis tournament on Tuesday. Roddick, a three-time Washington champion, defeated Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-4, 6-4 in just 84 minutes. I accompli...
Host: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week We visit an aircraft carrier that served during World War Two Answer a question from Brazil about the cartoon character Felix the Cat And listen...
By Paul Sisco Washington 09 May 2008 The Discovery Channel and NASA have restored 50 years of history for the U.S. space agency's archives. Discovery has used the material to produce a documentary series called, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions...
This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Even in this era of Madden Football and Grand Theft Auto of Gameboys and PlayStations , you can still read an account of Hezbollah's raid across the Israeli border as Nasrallah's gambit...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 17 September 2006 Filmmaker Brian De Palma takes movie audiences back to 1940's Los Angeles in his new 'film noir' thriller adapted from a classic crime story by hard-boiled author James Ellroy. ----- Aaron Eckhart and Jo...
American Old-time Radio Classic Favorites Last Year's Christmas Bill (II) Gracie: How do you do, are you Mr. Vanderlipp, the president of this bank? Mr. Vanderlipp: I am. Gracie: Well um, I wonder...
Alan Silverman The Iliad, the classic work by the ancient Greek poet Homer, gets the Hollywood treatment in an epic film starring Brad Pitt and Eric Bana. Alan Silverman has a look at Troy. It is not...