Experts are concerned about increasing attacks by the Islamic militant group al-Shabab in Somalia. In the past few weeks, the group has increased suicide bombings of Somali hotels and military targets. These attacks have caused the Trump Administrati...
The government in Vietnam faces pressure from European lawmakers to improve its human rights record. The rights issues are being raised at a time when European Union (EU) members are considering a free trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation. The...
College students around the world have been a powerful force for change throughout history. In the United States, the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s were periods when every new generation of college students became involved in political action. They forced c...
Hello and welcome to another Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Each week we tell the story of words and expressions used in American English. Today, we talk about two phrases that were ripped from the headlines, meaning they both ca...
A former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency recently spoke to VOA about the killing of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. He said the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was murdered to stop any effort to remove the current leaders...
The Library of Congress is using technology to make its collections available to people across the United States and around the world. 美国国会图书馆正在利用科技让其馆藏可以为美国人民和全球人民所用。 The library is the...
Millions of people in developing countries have to be on guard against contaminated food and medicine. Some products could be harmful -- even deadly. In Nigeria, brake fluid was found in a product designed to reduce teething pain in babies. A few yea...
Scientists Create Method to Test Food and Drugs for Purity Millions of people in developing countries have to be on guard against contaminated food and medicine. Some products could be harmful -- even deadly. In Nigeria, brake fluid was found in a pr...
The Walt Disney Company has built a room that it says can wirelessly power and charge any devices inside it. Wireless charging usually only works when a device is touching a power source. But researchers say they have found a way to provide wireless...
Malaysia has charged two women with the killing of the half-brother of North Koreas leader at the Kuala Lumpur airport last month. Siti Aisyah, a 25-year-old Indonesian, and Doan Thi Huong, a 28-year-old woman from Vietnam, appeared at a court in Kua...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. If you want to slow aging, you might want to eat less. Researchers in the United States say eating less can slow the aging process of cells in the body. This finding is good news if you...
The group responsible for a widely used college admissions test cancelled scores for a number of students who took the test in January. Those students took the international SAT, formerly known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The College announced i...
This is Whats Trending Today. 欢迎收听今日热点节目。 For Christians around the world, Wednesday is the beginning of Lent. It is the first day of a six-week religious observance before the Easter holiday. 对于全世界的基督徒来说，周...
An American mining company has suspended work at the worlds largest gold mine in West Papua, New Guinea in a dispute with the Indonesian government. Indonesia wants changes to the mining company Freeport-McMoRans business. It also wants a majority ow...
President Donald Trump will give his first speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. He is expected to discuss his plan to increase military spending by nearly 10 percent, or $54 billion, offset by equal cuts in non-defense spending. The cuts will like...
