African national Youth League leader Julius Malema points during a news conference in Johanensburg, 8 Apr 2010 Current Racial Tensions in South Africa Symptomatic of Deeper Issues, says Analyst The youth leader of South Africa's ruling African Nation...
A man and a woman died in an apparent murder-suicide last night in Altadena. The man was 74-year-old Dominic Vittorio. The woman was his 70-year-old wife, Victoria. The couple had been married for 50 years. In fact, their 50th anniversary occurred ju...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Barbara Klein. In southern Afghanistan, NATO troops are slowly clearing streets of home-made bombs and mines in the second day of a major offensive in the town of Marjah. U.S. marines are spearheading the effort to tak...
By Adam Phillips New York 30 December 2007 News of the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Bhenazir Bhutto at a political rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday was a seismic event in that politically volatile nation. But Bhutto's murder also reve...
By Greg Flakus Houston 09 October 2007 U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in the case of a convicted murderer from Mexico who is trying to escape the death penalty by arguing that he was not informed at the time of his arrest in Texas o...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 06 August 2007 Thomas Cholmondeley is the sole heir to one of Kenya's largest land-owning dynasties, and the scion of one of its most famous colonial settlers. For the second time in a year, he is accused of murdering a black...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 21 March 2007 A United Nations-appointed investigator is reporting significant progress in his probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. As we hear from VOA's correspondent at t...
By Anya Ardayeva Moscow 12 October 2006 watch Slain Russian Journalist report One of Russia's most prominent journalists, Anna Politkovskaya, was buried in a Moscow cemetery Tuesday after she was shot dead in her apartment building on Saturday. The...
Lesson 69 But not murder!并非谋杀！ First listen and then answer the question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Do you think that the writer passed his driving test? Why? I was being teste...
By Ed Warner Since its founding in 1961, the Peace Corps has sent 170,000 Americans to developing countries around the world offering help in projects ranging from housing to health to education to ag...
