By Barry Wood Washington 11 October 2007 Last March, the leaders of Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed an agreement to build a $1 billion pipeline to bypass the Bosporus and carry Russian and Central Asian oil directly to the Mediterranean at the Gre...
By Kevin Billinghurst Stockholm 11 October 2007 In Stockholm, the Swedish Academy has chosen the British author Doris Lessing for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kevin Billinghurst is in the Swedish capital. The selection of Doris Lessing for a N...
By Carol Pearson Washington 11 October 2007 One third of the land in the United States belongs to the public. And once a year Americans get a chance to help make these public lands beautiful and healthy for generations to come. VOA's June Soh visited...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 11 October 2007 African refugees in Australia are taking exception to a cabinet minister's remark that Africans are having trouble adjusting to the Australian way of life. Tens of thousands of Africans have made new lives in Aus...
By Chad Bouchard Bangkok 11 October 2007 Malaysia's first astronaut is orbiting the Earth after months of training and a successful launch from Kazakhstan. Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor is accompanying American Astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian Cosmonaut...
By Kari Barber Dakar 11 October 2007 It has been just over half a year since Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua was elected to power in elections marred by violence and widely viewed as fraudulent. Analysts say since that time Mr. Yar'Adua has gone to...
By Dorian Jones Istanbul, Turkey 11 October 2007 The vote in a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives calling the massacre of Armenians in World War I by Ottoman Turks a genocide has caused outrage in Turkey. The Bush administration opposed t...
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 11 October 2007 A coalition of 60 non-governmental organizations is urging the United Nations to adopt a resolution that calls for a global moratorium on the death penalty. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York...
By David Gollust Washington 10 October 2007 A bipartisan group of former U.S. policy makers urged the Bush administration Wednesday to provide for dialogue with the militant Palestinian group Hamas as part of diplomacy leading to the U.S.-sponsored M...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 10 October 2007 More than 200,000 people have died and millions more have been displaced by the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. U.S. President Bush has called the crisis there genocide. Despite international pressur...