By Peta Thornycroft Harare 31 March 2008 Zimbabwe's electoral commission has begun releasing official results from the nation's presidential and legislative elections. The announcement of the preliminary tallies, showing the ruling and main oppositio...
Baseball's Nationals Move Into New Stadium By Jim Stevenson Washington 31 March 2008 ----------------------------------------- Nationals Baseball Team Inaugurates New Stadium With Win By Jim Stevenson Washington 31 March 2008 Major League Baseball's...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 31 March 2008 African Union peacekeepers in Somalia say the year-old mission needs at least 20,000 troops to stabilized the war-ravaged country, 12,000 more than the mission's original mandate. From the Somali capital, Mogadis...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 31 March 2008 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrapped up a three-day trip to the Middle East saying peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians are moving forward, but Israel needs to stop its settlement activities....
By Kurt Achin Seoul 31 March 2008 South Korea is opting for a low public policy profile amid escalating tensions with North Korea. Seoul officials kept quiet, a day after Pyongyang threatened to turn the South into ashes. VOA's Kurt Achin reports fro...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 31 March 2008 Several dozen members of a hardline Islamic group held a demonstration outside the Dutch embassy in Jakarta to protest a film made by a right-wing Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violenc...
By Scott Stearns White House 31 March 2008 President Bush is on his way to Ukraine for the start of a four-nation trip that also includes stops in Russia, Croatia and Romania where he will take part in a NATO summit. VOA White House Correspondent Sco...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 31 March 2008 Australia has made a bid to secure a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. The effort is part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's push to make Australia a bigger player on the world stage. Mr. Rudd...
By Larry London Washington 31 March 2008 Billboard magazine lists the band Chicago as the leading singles chart group of the 1970s. With more than 21 million-selling albums, Chicago has secured a place in music history. With its legendary horn sectio...
By June Soh Washington 31 March 2008 With increased awareness of the need to protect the environment, some individuals have come up with innovative ways to re-use normally discarded products. In this report, VOA's June Soh shows how a glass artist in...
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 31 March 2008 The Turkish Constitutional Court has announced it will hear the closure case against the ruling AK Party. The case accuses the party of seeking to undermine the secular state and includes a possible political ba...
By Melinda Smith Washington 31 March 2008 A recent story in The New York Times newspaperraised serious questions about the credibility of a lung cancer study paid for in part by a large tobacco company. As VOA's Melinda Smith reports,there is growing...
By Nancy Palus Dakar 31 March 2008 Union leaders in Guinea urged workers not to go on strike Monday, the day unions had set as a deadline for resolving disputes that sparked protests early this year. But while a strike has been averted for now, right...
By Tendai Maphosa London 31 March 2008 Senior international legal experts and human rights activists say the U.N. Security Council should pressure Sudan to hand over two suspected war criminals to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The tw...
By Kent Klein Washington 31 March 2008 The top U.S. housing official, who is under criminal investigation, has announced he is resigning. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson says he will...
