This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Personal photos show Faisal Shahzad smiling. And why not? The young man built a promising life in a new land. He became an American citizen a year ago. He had an American-born wife from a family in his nati...
STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. This list includ...
Italian environmental officials are warning of an ecological disaster in Italy caused by an oil spill flowing down the Po River. They say water and bird species are at risk, as well as a fertile agricultural area. The say the oill spill has already c...
Welcome to the Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on February 18th, 2010. I am Steve Mirsky. And you know what the hottest sport in the world is right now? Thanks to the Winter Olympics, it is, of course, curling. That's t...
We certainly will go into the whole lot ,and then as I said will take a position on it, so we certainly dont want to brush anything under the carpet, we dont really sweep under the carpet, this is a serious issue and we certainly will look into it in...
Luke Hunt | Kota Kinabalu 18 December 2009 Photo: AP Khieu Samphan, looks on during hearing at U.N.-backed genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh (file photo) Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal has charged the Khmer Rouge's former head of state with...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 04 June 2006 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says there will a full investigation into reports that American Marines last November indiscriminately shot and killed...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, D.C. 01 June 2006 watch Haditha report President Bush, top U.S. military officials and the new government of Iraq have ordered investigations into an alleged massacre of...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 26 April 2006 European Parliament investigators say the CIA conducted more than 1,000 undeclared flights over European territory during the past five years. The rendition flights...
Broadcast: May 10, 2003 By Cynthia Kirk This is the VOA Special English program, In the News. Investigators say they now believe they know what caused the American space shuttle Columbia to break apar...