By Carol Pearson Washington 13 March 2008 Only three people worldwide have received partial face transplants, two in France and one in China. But now a hospital in Boston is ready to do the next one. VOA's Carol Pearson has more....
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 13 March 2008 High on the list of tasks for Kenya's proposed power-sharing government will be an overhaul of the country's constitution, viewed by many as an outdated document that has contributed to political instability. Sev...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 13 March 2008 Moscow is rejecting a U.S. State Department report that criticizes Russia as a high profile example of countries that regressed on human rights and democracy in 2007. In its dismissal, the Russian Foreign Affair...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 13 March 2008 Voters in Iran go to the polls on Friday for a parliamentary election seen mainly as a contest between competing conservative factions, after authorities barred the majority of reformist candidates from runni...
By Brian Wagner Miami 13 March 2008 As many as seven members of a Cuban national soccer team are reported to have defected in the United States shortly after playing a match in the U.S. state of Florida. VOA's Brian Wagner has more from Miami. Five o...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 13 March 2008 The Zimbabwe state media has been accused of bias in favor of the ruling ZANU-PF party by media monitors observing the run up to national elections on March 29. And as Peta Thornycroft reports, monito...
By Steve Herman Karachi 13 March 2008 Pakistan is one of the world's top cotton producers. With one out of every five Pakistani farmers growing the crop, supplying millions of spindles and looms and hundreds of mills, the cotton industry is the count...
By Cindy Saine Washington 13 March 2008 Senator Barack Obama has expressed frustration that racial issues keep rising to the surface in his battle with Senator Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the latest skirmish, a prom...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 13 March 2008 Climate change and a proposed Mediterranean Union top the agenda of a two-day European Union summit opening Thursday in Brussels. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris about the issues involved. Leaders from the 27-member...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 13 March 2008 The U.S. Defense Department has released a study of 600,000 documents from Saddam Hussein's archives concluding that while he supported many terrorist groups he did not have a direct connection with al-Qaida. But t...
By Dan Robinson Washington 13 March 2008 The House of Representatives has met in a rare closed session to consider proposed revisions to foreign intelligence surveillance law, the subject of continuing conflict between President Bush and Democrats. V...
By Dan Robinson Washington 12 March 2008 Members of the U.S. Congress say the leaders of newly-independent Kosovo, as well as the country's Serbian minority and the government in Serbia, must work to ensure ethnic tolerance and protection. VOA's Dan...
By Mona Ghuneim New York 12 March 2008 A Polish cosmologist, physicist, philosopher and Catholic priest is the recipient of the 2008 Templeton Prize, the world's largest monetary award given to an individual. From VOA's New York Bureau, Mona Ghuneim...
By Meredith Buel State Departmnet 12 March 2008 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling to Brazil and Chile this week to highlight the United States' strong relationship with two strategic countries in Latin America. Rice is expected to...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 12 March 2008 A top U.N. official warns that the insurgency in Afghanistan has been much worse than expected and the U.N.'s mandate in that country must be sharpened if international efforts there are to succeed. Fr...
