Ehud Barak said to have received dozens of threats from Jewish militants who oppose partial freeze on West Bank settlement construction Robert Berger | Jerusalem 06 January 2010 Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaking after a meeting with his A...
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says her country will continue to welcome Indian students despite New Delhi's warning that they could face robberies and assaults in Melbourne. The Indian government has warned its citizens to take extr...
Labor leaders in Guinea are threatening to stage a year-long strike if the military government does not resolve the country's political crisis. There is still no official word on the health of Guinea's military leader, more than one month after he wa...
VOA's Weekly Science and Technology Magazine Art Chimes 05 January 2010 MUSIC: Our World theme This week on a special edition of Our World, some of our favorite stories of the past year ... including a high-tech wrinkle to that humblest of building m...
Having all kinds of people in class, I am learning from people with different experiences, Steve said. No matter where Steve Maina Muchiri has gone to study, he finds his way right back to the university he calls home, Eastern Kentucky University. I'...
Autism Spectrum Disorder is said to be the fastest growing neurobiological condition in the world. Autistic children and adults often have trouble interacting with others, are slow to learn language, and are frequently more interested in objects than...
The researchers will sail for Antarctica early next month, in an expedition funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments. The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan's claims that whales have to be kill...
The United States Women's Olympic ice hockey team will be relying on a mixture of youth and experience as they prepare for the 2010 Winter Games this February in Vancouver, Canada. Women's squads from eight different nations will be battling for the...
The U.S. government is spending more than $7 billion to bring high speed Internet access to all Americans. It is a huge infrastructure project and its goal is to make sure every American - including those who live in impoverished urban and rural area...
The economic recession is forcing some areas of the United States to reconsider ambitious growth plans. In the southern state of Florida, the population has actually fallen for the first time in more than 60 years. A bad economy has left a hole in Le...
The 2001 attacks, in which terrorists hijacked airliners to use as guided missiles, sparked a major overhaul of the U.S. intelligence community. Yet on Christmas Day, a would-be suicide bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, nearly blew up an airline...
The United States has increased security screenings for air travelers from 14 countries, in response to the attempted December 25 bombing of a U.S. jetliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. The U.S. State Department considers four of those countries...
We welcome people coming to the United States. We're going to make sure that the process by which people come here, and travel here, is as safe as it can be. - Assistant US Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley The State Department said...
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States had enough information to uncover the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, but failed to put all the bits and pieces of intelligence together. Mr. Obama spoke after a long meeti...
The United States and Britain on Monday kept their embassies in Yemen closed for a second day because of threats from a local branch of the al-Qaida terrorist network. France also closed its embassy in Yemen. Much of the world's attention is now on Y...
