17 Killed in Recent Mumbai Bombings Amid popular anger and grief at the apparent terror attacks in India's financial hub, Mumbai, top Indian officials are heading to the city and promising answers. At least 17 people were killed in Wednesday's back-t...
Have you recently been poking your friends, twittering, or blogging? Well, according to a recent report from the global research company Nielson, you are most definitely not alone. The report says that social networking and blogs have now become more...
In September parliamentary elections were held in Belarus. In this report from Washington, VOA Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at what the results mean for the political life in the former Soviet republic, governed by authoritarian presid...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 04 February 2008 The Federal Reserve Board cut short-term interest rates twice in January, most recently to three percent. The cuts are meant to encourage consumers by making credit more available, and to rally plungin...
Renee Montagne: It's graduation season and we're looking at the finances of young people. Last week we reported on ways to help teenagers avoid debt, today, college grads. Several authors who are as young as the people they write about have portraye...
By Jim Malone Washington 04 October 2006 A budding scandal in the U.S. Congress and new questions about the war in Iraq have Republicans on the defensive less than five weeks before congressional elections in November. ----- Rep. Mark Foley speaks a...
By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 24 August 2006 watch UNIFEM report A new report from UNIFEM -- the United Nations Development Fund for Women -- finds that violence against women in post-Taleban Afghanistan remains widespread, and that much of it co...
By Ernest Leong Washington, D.C. 14 August 2006 watch Multitasking report It's a busy, fast moving world many of us live in, one that frequently requires us to multitask -- perform several tasks simultaneously. Some scientists say multitasking may n...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 28 February 2006 watch Good News report By definition, news is something that takes place that is out of the ordinary...and a lot of news could be considered bad: car b...
By Malini Bawa Washington, D.C. 05 January 2006 Mining Safety 12 U.S. coal miners were killed in an explosion this week. It's the nation's second worst coal mining disaster since 1984. But U.S. mines...