VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Edgar Allan Poe And I'm Shirley Griffith. This year is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of writer Edgar Allan Poe. The United States Postal Service i...
By Doug Levine Washington 18 December 2007 Jazz fans are well known for celebrating the old and the new, and 2007 was no exception. As VOA's Doug Levine reports, the year was filled with jazz tributes, including one to the man who introduced jazz to...
The next story is bit sentimental. China's star basketball player Yi Jianlian is kissing his home team goodbye as he heads for the NBA. He played for Guangdong HongYuan for five CBA seasons. The Milwaukee Bucks draft recently bid farewell to his fan...
By Sabina Castelfranco Modena 07 September 2007 Thousands of mourners are bidding farewell to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti in his hometown of Modena. The opera star died Thursday from cancer and is lying in state inside the city's cathedral as peo...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 May 2007 In May of 1977, the science fiction adventure Star Wars was released in theaters, and May 24-28 in Los Angeles, tens of thousands of fans will celebrate the film and its 30-year legacy. Mike O'Sullivan repor...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 11 March 2007 India has traditionally been a nation of tea-drinkers, but coffee is beginning A visitor sips coffee next to a poster advertising a coffee brand at the India International Coffee Festival 2007 in Bangalore (...
By Michael Gutkin New York City 23 February 2007 watch Meet the Oscars report On Sunday, February 25, Hollywood's biggest stars will come together for the 79th annual Academy Awards. Hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world will watch to...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 06 June 2006 Days before their football team's first-ever game in the World Cup, many Ivorian fans are still waiting for visas to support their side in Germany. -------------...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 26 April 2006 watch Lacrosse report Lacrosse, a sport for the young, has old roots in games played by Native Americans hundreds of years ago. Today, lacrosse is still trea...
By Steve Schy Detroit 04 February 2006 Super Bowl 40 will air Sunday on the ABC television network and advertisers will be paying top-dollar to show their products to the huge audience expected for th...