A: What is your policy towards tenants keeping pets? B: You may have a pet, but you have to pay an extra two hundred dollar cleaning deposit. A: How many pets can we have? B: You may have only one pet. You can have either a small dog or a cat. A: Wha...
A: I was wondering if you allow pets in this building. B: We do allow some pets, but you must pay an additional five hundred dollar security deposit. A: What kind of pets do you allow? B: You may keep either one cat or one dog. A: Can cats and dogs b...
Ukraine's new president, Viktor Yanukovich, says he is committed to establishing closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovich, who is considered far more pro-Russian than his predecessor, chose to make his first foreign trip to Brussels, rather th...
1 If you are flying Delta in the new year, expect to pay more for check bags. It will now cost you 23 dollars for the first bag and 32 for the second. That's an increas of eight dollars for the first bag and seven for the second. 2 Relief from the co...
The auto fleet in the United States is shrinking. For the first time since World War II, more used cars were scrapped than new cars sold in 2009. The fleet decreased from an all-time high in 2008 of 250 million vehicles to 246 million last year. Driv...
Photo: AP This file photo shows a technician walking along the perimeter of a nuclear reactor head at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, 15 Dec 2009 Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as pa...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. More than twenty countries have found cases of the new H1N1 influenza virus. In all around one thousand five hundred cases and thirty deaths have been confirmed. But most have been reported in Mexico an...
Iran and the United States have been going through what might be described as diplomatic mood swings. One minute, it seems as if the two countries are on the brink of war. The next, there seem to be small but perceptible policy shifts towards each o...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 03 June 2008 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has defended the land policies of his government which have been blamed for devastating the country's agricultural sector. Addressing delegates at a U.N. summit on world foo...
By Barry Wood Washington 13 April 2008 Economic policy makers from all corners of the word ended their meeting in in Washington with a call for assistance to countries most affected by a recent sharp rise in food prices. VOA's Barry Wood reports. Wor...