Meanwhile, anti-government protesters in Bangkok have rejected talk of negotiations as they continue their occupation of key areas in the Thai capital -- the main shopping area and the city's historic district. Ron Corben | Bangkok 11 April 2010 An a...
Lisa Bryant | Paris 10 April 2010 French director Roselyne Bosch takes part in a special tv show on The Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv (the great round-up or great raid of the Vel'd'Hiv) on the occasion of the release of her movie La Rafle, 15 Feb 2010, in La Pl...
Besides the presidential couple, all other people on board the plane reportedly died, including the country's army chief, its deputy foreign minister, the Central Bank governor and scores of other officials, legislators and crew members. Stefan Bos |...
Ron Corben | Bangkok 10 April 2010 An anti-government demonstrator wields stick against soldiers and police during a clash in Bangkok, Thailand, 10 Apr 2010 Thai security forces have launched a major crackdown against anti-government protesters in a...
VOA's weekly science and technology radio magazine Art Chimes | Washington, DC 09 April 2010 Related Links Space Shuttle (NASA) Counterfeit drugs (Nature Medicine) Climate's Influence on Human Evolution (NRC) Fossil finger (Nature) Library of Congres...
More than one million searchable and browsable images Art Chimes | Washington, DC 09 April 2010 Photo: Library of Congress The Library of Congress contains a treasure trove of photographs and other images. Related Links Library of Congress Prints and...
Jennifer Glasse | London 09 April 2010 Spring is in the air at London's Barbican Center and the birds are making music, literally. A band of zebra finches is playing electric guitars and cymbals in a walk through area of the arts center. These zebra...
Roxana Romero | Miami 09 April 2010 After almost three months of legal wrangling, a Haitian couple was finally able to fly to Miami to reunite with their baby daughter. The couple feared their daughter, Jenny, had died in Haiti's devastating earthqua...
Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou leaves from a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou in Athens, 09 Apr 2010 Greece is facing more troubling news as it tries to get its growing debt under control. Fitch Ratings, one of the world'...
Selah Hennessy | London 09 April 2010 Dozens of parliamentarians from around the world made a call Friday for the upcoming elections in Sudan to be postponed. In a public letter they say the building blocks for a free and fair election are not in pla...
Egypt, Nigeria and Peru are among a group of countries that have put together a wish list of disputed cultural artifacts they want brought back to their homelands. At a two-day conference in Cairo, participants argued museums are often the main obsta...
U.S. National Research Council calls for more exploration Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 08 April 2010 Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Rick Potts has led excavations at early human sites in the East African Rift Valley, and cu...
Travelers take a vacation from high prices by having medical procedures performed abroad at a fraction of the price Jan Sluizer | San Francisco, California 08 April 2010 John Freeman paid $18,000 for a heart procedure in Turkey that he says would hav...
Carol Pearson 08 April 2010 Life expectancy is rising in much of the world. But doctors are seeing another trend that is disturbing. Some people are choosing lifestyles that contribute to early death. A new U.S. study looks at four lifestyle choices...
Little town's now the live music show capital of the world Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 08 April 2010 Photo: Library of Congress This was Lake Taneycomo, outside Branson, in 1914. There wasn't much more to the town then, either. If you had mentione...
