Indian rescuers searched on Monday for about 200 people missing after part of a Himalayan glacier broke away Sunday and caused major flooding. The flooding happened when part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off, releasing water trapped behind it. The...
Scientists Develop Method to Grow Wood in a Lab American scientists say they have developed a way to grow wood material in a laboratory. The method could create different wood products indoors in a single process, greatly cutting the cost of producti...
A Committee of Five, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston, worked together to write the U.S. Declaration of Independence. They are among the leaders known as America's Founding Fathers. The Declaration...
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Lucenia Dunn was careful. She urged people in her area to wear face masks and keep a safe distance from one another. Dunn lives in Tuskegee and was once mayor of this town in the southern state of Alabam...
The coronavirus health crisis has interfered with almost every part of daily human lifeincluding what we eat. Nearly a year into social distancing, many people are enjoying foods long forgotten or once rejected for taste, feel or smell. Some have add...
A new Israeli policy permits people in The Gaza Strip to sell old metal and send it to Israel for processing. Gaza is a Palestinian area bordering Israel and Egypt. The territory has an estimated 49 percent unemployment rate. 以色列一项新的政策...
The head of Britain's vaccination deployment effort says the world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19. 英国疫苗接种工作负责人表示，世界上大约有4000种新冠病毒变种。 As a result of new mutated vers...
US Drops Case Against Yale for Racial Discrimination The U.S. Department of Justice withdrew a lawsuit last week against Yale University over how it accepts students. In October 2020, the department accused the school in New Haven, Connecticut of mak...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore words and expressions in the English language a little more closely. Often, our expressions come from everyday objects. Today we talk about a candle. Sometimes we...
Bosnia's most popular rock music band, Dubioza Kolektiv, has a new member who sings and plays musical instruments a humanoid robot called Robby Megabyte. The band wanted a robot designed to fit the idea for their new group of songs called #fakenews,...
U.S. Army leaders have eased restrictions on a number of hairstyle and other personal appearance rules for soldiers. 美国陆军领导人放宽了对士兵发型和其他个人仪容规定的限制。 The changes are set to take effect in late Febru...
The 55th Super Bowl is Sunday. It is the championship game of the National Football League. While the American football game will look mostly the same for sports fans watching on television, many things will be different this year with the coronaviru...
Today's story is The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton. The story was written by Frank Stockton in 1882. It was adapted for VOA Learning English by Shelley Gollust. The storyteller is Barbara Klein. Long ago, in the very olden time, there live...
'New Chance at Life: Man Gets Face, Hands in Rare Operation A rare face and hands transplant changed Joe DiMeo's life six months ago. A transplant is a medical operation in which an organ or body part is removed from one person and attached to anothe...
The Lunar New Year holiday is usually a busy time for flower farms in Hong Kong. The farms prepare to sell plum blossoms, orchids and daffodils at flower markets during the cheerful season. But the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on such market...
