Central banks of the leading industrialized nations are working together to try to ease a financial crisis that originated in the United States but has roiled markets worldwide. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. A Wall Street street sig...
Major European markets opened moderately higher, following the lead of Asian markets that posted solid gains. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London has details. German stock trader makes phone call in Frankfurt European markets posted modest increases as in...
For the past several decades Republican presidential candidates have been able to count on winning in the Rocky Mountain states so they could concentrate their efforts elsewhere. But this year the Democrats are making inroads in those states and cou...
The International Monetary Fund anticipates sharply lower world growth because of the financial crisis rippling across the globe. VOA's Barry Wood reports the IMF, however, does not anticipate a repeat of the global depression of the 1930s. Olivier...
Amid a continuing housing crisis in the United States, the Bush administration is taking over two failing mortgage firms in an effort to limit further turmoil in the sector. From Washington, VOA's Michael Bowman reports. The last year has seen a spi...
The five permanent U.N. Security Council member countries and Germany, the P-Five-plus-One, agreed Wednesday to consider new sanctions against Iran after another ambiguous Iranian response to their offer of incentives to halt uranium enrichment. The...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 06 June 2008 Israel is threatening to invade the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. President George Bush (r) and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House, 04 Jun...
By Jim Malone Washington 11 April 2008 There is little doubt that the war in Iraq will be a major issue in this year's U.S. presidential campaign. But it remains to be seen whether voters will be in a mood to punish Republicans for getting the U.S. i...
By Robert Raffaele Washington, DC 08 February 2008 American medical researchers say they are stunned by the results of a major government study on diabetes and heart disease. They hoped to prove that a long-trusted form of treatment for lowering blo...
By Nina Maria Potts Antwerp, The Netherlands 06 December 2007 The city of Antwerp has been home to a prosperous diamond industry for centuries. Traditionally, the fine craft of polishing belonged to the city's Jewish community. But the success of Ind...