NEW DELHI, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Legendary Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who gained widespread international acclaim due to his association with The Beatles, passed away at a hospital in San Diego in the U.S. state of California Wednesday (...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Legendary Hollywood actor Tony Curtis died on Wednesday night. He was 85. The veteran star, who was best known for his role in Some Like It Hot, died of cardiac arrest(心搏停止) at his Las Vegas home, the Los...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its not every day we get a chance to time travel. Other than into the future at the rate of one second per second. But astronomers say theyve done a li...
He made his fortune in oil, but energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens has now embarked on a national public relations campaign to move the country away from oil and towards a renewable energy future. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Houston, many ene...
They went up in flames, thousands of original works by some of the world's greatest thinkers, not a single scroll survived. Today, 1600 years after the destruction of the great library, Alexandria has built a new library, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina...