20 top predictions for life 100 years from now Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with yo...
Mayan End of World Prediction Explored in Film In recent years, the idea that the world will end on December 21, 2012 has gained attention and spawned thousands of web sites, blogs, books and even a Hollywood movie. Although scientists generally dism...
Articulate, ambitious and affectionate(深情的) - maybe a little timid - but overall very lucky. These are some of the characteristics usually associated with people born in the Year of the Rabbit. And as we wave goodbye to the Year of the Tiger, i...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The International Monetary Fund has raised its prediction for world economic growth to four and six-tenths percent this year. That is a half-percentage point higher than the estimate in April. The IMF...
Iraqi policemen stand guard in front of an election campaign poster for former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at a checkpoint in Baghdad, 17 Mar 2010 A new frontrunner has emerged in the ongoing vote tally from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election...
