Japanese health officials announced Sunday they were suspending the use of another 1 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. The latest action came as Japan already put on hold 1.63 million doses after they were found to contain foreign particle...
How to Survive When You Lose Money From VOA Learning English this is the Health Lifestyle report. Research done earlier this year found that one in two people worldwide saw their earnings drop because of the coronavirus pandemic. In May, the Reuters...
The United States is continuing to fly people out of Afghanistan in the final hours before its planned total withdrawal from the country on Tuesday. As evacuation efforts continued Monday at Kabul airport, a series of rockets targeted the area. U.S....
Some Indonesian Students Return to School, at a Distance Schools reopened in parts of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, for the first time in more than a year on Monday. Schools that had been shut by the coronavirus were permitted to begin reopening as c...
A new study suggests that smoke from wildfires can change how clouds store water and could lead to less rainfall. The research comes as western parts of the United States are currently experiencing drought conditions after several years of intense wi...
Gingko Leaves Teach Scientists About Climate During Dinosaurs Days As scientists try to understand the future of our warming planet, critical information may be found in the past. At the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Richard Barclay opens a met...
For the most part, humans are still necessary for operating what are supposed to be self-driving vehicles. This situation highlights the difficulties facing the automated vehicle industry, which has gotten billions of dollars in investor money over t...
Few Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are able to travel by airplane. The territory does not have a civilian airport. Those who have enough money to pay for a plane ticket must catch their flights in neighboring Jordan. But just outside the nort...
Asian American Bakeries Mix Together Cultures to Create New Foods Sunday Bakeshop in Oakland, California, makes foods that mix American and Asian cultures. The restaurant makes foods that are cooked, or baked, in an oven. Many of them are sweet. For...
How to Garden When You Have Too Much Water Unusual weather this summer has hurt many gardens in the United States. For many, the problem is not enough rain, for others it is too much. In some gardens, water sits on the surface of the ground or the gr...
Llama antibodies could soon be playing a part in the worldwide fight against COVID-19, if tests being done by a Belgian company live up to their early results. Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology in Ghent say antibodies ta...
Classes Starting, But International Students Failing to Get US Visas Kofi Owusu's classes at Villanova University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are about to start this Monday. But his in-person meeting at the United States embassy in Accra, Ghana for...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore terms and expressions in the English language. And today we talk about a word that will help you talk about the best of times. That word is heyday. If you are in...
U.S. and Canadian researchers have recently completed identifying all the genetic information of lake trout. The digital map could help efforts to rebuild populations of the fish in North American lakes, officials said this week. The map is called a...
Students, Teachers Worry about the Future of Music in Afghanistan Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, to help bring back music in his home country, Afghanistan. He started a school there that was different than most; it admitted chil...
