The number of international students in the United States is at record levels. Last year, more than six hundred seventy thousand foreign students attended an American college or university. And for the eighth year the school with the largest number w...
This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. Thisll just take a minute. The Taliban destroyed international treasures when they wrecked the ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistans Bamiyan region. But new treasures have now bee...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. March Madness is the name for the busy championship season in American college basketball. But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and uni...
Todd: So, Mark, um, you mentioned that your wife is Japanese. Mark: Thats right. Todd: Ok, and how long have you been married? Mark: We finally got married in April of 1998 but it took us a while to get to that stage. Todd: Ok, well,whats it like bei...
From NPR News, in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Frustration is mounting in the Haitian capital where millions of earthquake survivors are spending a fourth day without fresh food, water or medicine. Many are also working alongside international resc...
Hospitals in Haiti are struggling to cope with the flood of people injured in Tuesday's earthquake, as bodies pile up in severely damaged areas. International aid is streaming into the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, in response to the crisis. Injure...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is prepared to work with other countries to fund $100 billion a year by 2020 to address climate change needs of developing countries. African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agri...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 November 2009 A worker displays gold bars at the National Indian Bullion Refinery (NIBR)'s gold and silver refinery in Mumbai, 06 Nov 2009 India has purchased 200 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund to d...
BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishBFM International Film Festival6 Minute English ? Yvonne: Hello, I'm Yvonne Archer and this is '6 minute English' - and thanks toWilliam Kremer for joining me today. William: Hello it's a pleasure! Yvonne: For fif...
Fire authorities from around the world have been meeting in Australia to learn from the devastating bush fires in the southern state of Victoria earlier this year. Firefighters using mobile tanker trucks work to keep fire under control at containmen...