By Paula Wolfson Washington 12 July 2006 President Bush is on his way to Germany for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, before they attend the G-8 Summit this weekend in St. Petersburg, Russia. -------- White House National Security Advisor Stephe...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 12 July 2006 An Indian police official says the coordinated train bombings in Bombay follow the style of a militant Kashmiri Muslim group. But that group and another have both denied any involvement. ------------- School...
By David McAlary Washington 12 July 2006 Astronaut Mike Fossum (on arm)installs the International Space Station's railcar-like mobile transporter U.S. space shuttle astronauts are on their third spacewalk since Saturday, this time to practice method...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 12 July 2006 Eight years after becoming a member of the Group of Eight industrialized nations, Russia is set to host the annual G8 Summit in St. Petersburg - President Vladimir Putin's hometown. It is a significant achievement...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 July 2006 White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove says President Bush is seeking fair and comprehensive immigration reform, and Tuesday, the White House official reached out to a major Latino organization that i...
By Greg Flakus Houston 12 July 2006 In Mexico, leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continues his efforts to challenge the narrow result from July 2 election that gave victory to ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon. Meanwhil...
By Dan Robinson Washington 11 July 2006 The U.S. House of Representatives approved the extension of economic sanctions against Burma's military government. Burma A resolution extending trade sanctions against the ruling military government in Burma...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 11 July 2006 Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue to put forward conflicting assessments of the situation in Iraq. Lawmakers also considered a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office re...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 11 July 2006 US Marines on patrol in Iraq (File photo) The U.S. Government Accountability Office, an independent investigative arm of Congress, has released a report that criticizes the Bush Administration's strategy for s...
By VOA News 11 July 2006 Noguchi museum exhibit Visionary 20th century designer-inventor Buckminster Fuller and modernist sculptor Isamu Noguchi collaborated to bridge the gap between art and technology to create works that challenged the status quo...
By Jim Malone Washington 11 July 2006 Opposition Democrats hope to seize control of one or both chambers of the U.S. Congress in the November mid-term elections, in large part because of voter dismay over the situation in Iraq. In the first of a two...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 11 July 2006 Guantanamo detainees (file photo) The Bush administration for the first time has acknowledged that all detainees held by the U.S. military are subject to the protections under the Geneva Conventions. The Pen...
By Joseph Mok Washington, DC 11 July 2006 watch Whitney Museum report New York's Whitney Museum of American Art this summer celebrates its 75th anniversary - along with its every-other-year exhibit, called Biennial 2006. The museum is a leading advo...
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 11 July 2006 A new Vietnamese regulation is designed to prevent young users from spending endless hours on on-line games. But gaming companies say enforcing such limits is difficult, and it is not clear how serious the gover...
By Mil Arcega Washington 11 July 2006 Watch Offshore Drilling report The United States House of Representatives has passed a controversial measure designed to lift a 25-year ban on oil drilling in U.S. coastal areas. As VOA's Mil Arcega reports, env...
