By Brian Wagner Port-au-Prince 09 October 2007 Thousands of Haitian schools reopened their doors for a new school year last month, thanks in part to the support of the United States and other international donors. As Haiti's government works to reco...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 09 October 2007 Two Amnesty International delegates and a local journalist arrested in Gambia Saturday have been released on bail. The human rights watchdog Amnesty International says their detention demonstrates the deteriora...
By Phuong Tran Dakar 09 October 2007 Thousands of youths line up in Mauritania's poorest neighborhoods to see the mostly underground concerts of a homegrown rap group. Diam Men Teky does not win many fans in the government for their songs about corru...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 09 October 2007 Israeli police have opened a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, it is the latest in a series of scandals that has eroded public s...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 09 October 2007 The international environmental organization Greenpeace has opened a forest defenders camp on Indonesia's Sumatra Island to bring global attention to the country's destruction of its forests. VOA's Nanc...
By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 09 October 2007 The 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany for discoveries that have helped fuel explosive growth in the storage capacity of computer hard...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 09 October 2007 It has been a year since North Korea alarmed the world by demonstrating its nuclear weapons capability with an underground test. In the months since, multinational diplomacy dealing with North Korea's nuclear weapo...
By Mona Ghuneim New York 09 October 2007 Sixteen years after the rediscovery of an African burial ground in Lower Manhattan, New York City and federal officials dedicated a memorial on the site, and paid tribute to the thousands of nameless men, wome...
By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 10 October 2007 The 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. Kevin Billinghurst has the story from Stockholm. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honors Pr...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 08 October 2007 A student newspaper in Los Angeles called L.A. Youth is giving a voice to teenagers, free from censorship by school officials. As Mike O'Sullivan reports, the paper deals with controversial issues from...