Science news, multimedia, blogs, and more Art Chimes | Washington DC 19 March 2010 Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. This week it's a place for up-to-date science news presented w...
Haitian-born actor Jimmy Jean-Louis of the popular NBC series 'Heroes' at the 'Sustainable Haiti' conference in Miami, 18 Mar 2010 A year-and-a-half ago, Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) asked Haitian-born actor, Jimmy Jean-Louis to be its...
The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915 remains an emotional issue. A major U.S. congressional panel has described the massacre as genocide. In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent Andr de Nesnera looks at the ra...
Privacy, concerns over PATRIOT Act worry some in first population count since 9/11 Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington DC 19 March 2010 Muslims attend a panel discussion to learn more about the 2010 Census. Muslim-American leaders are urging the communit...
Democrats in the US Congress are racing to pass health care reform legislation. Currently, people in their 20s are the largest group in the United States without health insurance. With skyrocketing health care costs, those with low incomes often cann...
Over 10 percent of New Yorkers, nearly 425,000, are unemployed and looking for work, the highest rate in the three decades that records have been kept. The city's jobless numbers are expected to stay at ten percent or above through next year. And tha...
President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health insurance reform during his event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, 19 Mar 2010 Ahead of a crucial health-care reform vote in the U.S. House of Representatives expected on Sunday, Presi...
Hugs and kisses welcomed U.S. soldiers from Washington's National Guard when they returned home March 18 after serving in Iraq. It is the first time they have seen their families in almost a year. And for some, the stay will be short lived. VOA's Eli...
Meeting of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators. From left, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign poli...
Debate continues in Ivory Coast over the creation of a definitive voter list, despite pressure from the United Nations Security Council this week to hold the country's long-delayed presidential elections as soon as possible. The U.N. Security Council...
The U.S. space shuttle program comes to an end this year, and a debate is underway over what should replace it. The retirement of the shuttle fleet could result in massive job losses in Florida. Thousands of workers protest in Titusville, Florida ove...
The World Health Organization (WHO) lists colon cancer among the deadliest diseases. In 2004, some 639,000 people around the world died from colon cancer. If caught in time, surgery and chemotherapy are effective treatments. But a new randomized tria...
Old Salem in North Carolina revisits simple Moravian ways Ted Landphair | Washington DC 18 March 2010 This is a pleasant part of downtown Winston-Salem in the Winston part of town. Across the United States, there are several places where two independ...
An Iraqi man stands near a bombing site in Baghdad in August 2009. The book, ''The Strong Horse, asserts Arab culture is to blame for violence in the Middle East and for the failure of peace initiatives. Lee Smith says it has always been hard for Ame...
US President Barack Obama has again postponed his trip to Indonesia because of pressing issues in the U.S. The trip is part of his ongoing effort to reach out to Muslims worldwide. Last year, he gave a speech in Cairo that was considered a landmark i...
