A Palestinian man shouts slogans during a protest to demand civil rights for Palestinians refugees, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Like the tangled electricity wires at Bourj al Barajne camp outside Beirut, the situation of Palestinians i...
Senegalese basketball legend Anne Marie Dioh is helping to train the next generation of women basketball players in her country. Dioh is making a difference through her after-school program that also encourages young people to stay in school. Anne Ma...
In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the m...
President Barack Obama traveled to St. Louis, Missouri on Wednesday, continuing his outreach to Americans to support approval by the U.S. Congress of legislation to reform the U.S. health care system. The president is intensifying his efforts to ensu...
A recent report by Thomson Reuters, the parent company of Britain's Reuters news agency, indicates Russia is losing influence in science and science-based industries. Russia is also suffering a brain drain that is exacerbating the problem. The report...
Members of Zimbabwe's constitutional outreach team has begun training in Harare before being deployed across the country to prepare for the writing of a new document. Ish Mafundikwa | Harare 11 January 2010 Zimbabwe took another step towards drafting...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Charter schools operate with public money but without many of the rules that govern traditional public schools. In the United States the rules for charter schools differ from state to state. But in ge...
Puppies born recently in Cambodia are the first mine-clearing dogs to be bred and born in Southeast Asia. Most Asian dogs are unsuited for de-mining, so fully trained dogs are imported, mostly from Europe. But that could change if Cambodia's new bre...
By Tendai Maphosa London 11 December 2007 The African islands of Cape Verde have a rich musical tradition and one young, new artist, Sara Tavares, is carrying that tradition forward and to new levels. She played in London recently, where Tendai Mapho...
By Leah Krakinowski The United States has once again become a magnet for millions of men and women from around the globe. A century ago, the U.S. willingly opened its doors to legions of immigrants. T...
