Analysts: Iran's Threats in Gulf Unlikely to Lead to War Irans recent threat to close the Strait of Hormuz led to a defiant U.S. response. It raised concerns of a military clash in the Persian Gulf and also raised oil prices. Some analysts do not exp...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Ford Leads Nation After Nixon Resigns STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we tell the story of the thirty-eight...
JAKARTA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- David Beckham-led Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team has arrived in Jakarta to kick off their Asia-Pacific tour, Jakarta Globe reported here on Tuesday. As part of the tour, coach Bruce Arena's side will play against the Indo...
Italian Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti, a former top EU commissioner, has been asked by the country's president to form a new government. The move comes a day after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation, following international financi...
听歌学英语:Love Will Lead You Back 歌词: saying good bye is never an easy thing but you never said you'd stay forever so if you must go darling i'll set you free but in time i know we will be together i won't try to stop you from leaving 'coz...
BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Zhou Dongyu, the starlet in Zhang Yimou's drama Under the Hawthorn Tree, has been cast as a lead for Stanley Kwan's upcoming romantic film, Ta De Guo (His Kingdom), according to the Guangzhou Daily. The newspaper cite...
ROME, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Diego Milito broke his goal drought(进球荒) on Wednesday to help Inter Milan thrash Bari 4-0, while Roma slipped into(溜进) the relegation zone as they were beaten 2-1 by Brescia. Milito(米利托) was on t...
The U.S. Department of Defense is sending agricultural teams to Afghanistan to supplement the war effort nad help Afghans rebuild their country's largest and most important economic sector. Pentagon officials said the Agricultural Development Teams...
President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to head the Veterans Affairs Department says, if confirmed, he will work to streamline the agency to better respond to the needs of U.S. troops returning home from war. Retired Army General Eric Shinseki, who h...
UNHCR reports at least 52 Somalis died when the boat smuggling them across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen broke down, leaving them adrift with no food or water for 18 days. The UNHCR says this latest tragedy coincides with a recent upsurge in people smug...