By Scott Stearns White House 19 June 2008 U.S. President George Bush is in the Midwest state of Iowa surveying flood damage from heavy rains that have washed out millions of hectares of grazing and farmlands. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stea...
By Scott Stearns White House 08 February 2008 President Bush has toured areas of the south-central United States hit by a series of tornadoes this week. The storms killed at least 57 people and ripped apart houses throughout the area. VOA White House...
By Cindy Saine Washington 16 November 2007 An independent survey on racial attitudes in the United States shows a growing number of African Americans say they are worse off now than they were five years ago, and that they don't expect their lives to...
By Paul Sisco Washington 31 October 2007 A team of British explorers has announced they are going to the North Pole to measure the ice cap's thickness. The expedition, a collaboration of Cambridge University in Britain and a U.S. Navy oceanography sc...
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 16 October 2007 Women are breaking gender barriers in the Philippines where an international survey shows that they hold half of all senior management positions, one of the highest levels in the world. Filipinos say that fi...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 03 October 2007 Australians have suffered a dramatic loss of confidence in the ability of the United States to manage international affairs. The first survey of attitudes by a center set up by the Howard government to improve re...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 20 September 2007 Estonia has refused permission for a geological survey in its territorial waters for a proposed gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. But VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky says the Russian-German project...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 22 August 2007 A new study of corruption in Kenya shows there has been little progress despite repeated promises by President Mwai Kibaki's government to crack down on graft. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, everyday Keny...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 February 2007 The World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO estimates counterfeiting and piracy is costing the global economy more than $100 billion a year. Surveys by big business put a much higher figure of more th...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 05 February 2007 More than half of blacks living in France say they face racial discrimination, according to the first-ever survey on the country's black population. The findings are troubling for a country that has long prided i...