Building a Restaurant on Wheels from Inside Out Youve got to come in, go around in this truck, and back out that window in three to four minutes, period, says Lee Campbell, owner of East Coast Coaches who believes that is how long it should take for...
VOA Finds Evidence of Syrian Cluster Bomb Use In Azaz, Syria, in late January, Syrian government forces used what arms experts say is a particularly deadly weapon. Residents say a plane dropped nine large cluster bombs on this neighborhood on the out...
Giant Airship Could Move Huge Amounts of Cargo The prototype unveiled in this immense World War II hangar near Los Angeles is just half the size of the final working model. But the prototype is massive, at 75-meters-long. It is wide, flattened on the...
HIV Trial Yields Disappointing Results A large-scale HIV prevention trial among African women has yielded disappointing results. But the outcome may be more the fault of behavior than the prevention methods used in the study. The trial is known as VO...
Washington Week: Focus on Effects of Automatic Spending Cuts With President Obama and Congress unable to agree on alternatives to across-the-board cuts, the American people are weighing in on Washingtons unending budgetary drama. It is just ridiculou...
Tim McGraw Sees 'Two Lanes of Freedom' Two Lanes of Freedom is McGraws debut album for the Nashville independent label Big Machine Records. He shares the Big Machine roster with such superstars as Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts and Trisha Yearwood. McGr...
Serbian Scandal Highlights Fungal Poison Danger Serbian Agriculture Minister Goran Knezevic says the countrys milk is safe to drink. Tests late last month had found aflatoxins in some milk at levels higher than permitted under a law passed two years...
IMF to Revise US Growth Forecast, Sequester Blamed With across the board budget cuts all but guaranteed, some government agencies already have placed a freeze on hiring. At the Federal Aviation Administration, up to 40 thousand workers expect to see...
Protesters Block Dismantling Part of Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was once of the starkest reminders of the Cold War. It was put up by communist East Germany in 1961, to stop its citizens from fleeing to West Berlin. But today, the wall that once snak...
Conservatives See Victory in Budget Cuts Earlier this week, Obama was back in campaign mode at a shipyard in Virginia, warning about the dangers of the mandatory budget cuts. So these cuts are wrong. They are not smart. They are not fair. They are a...
Obama: Spending Cuts Are 'Dumb,' Unnecessary Obama called the $85 billion in automatic cuts dumb and arbitrary, and he said Republicans could have stopped them. Lets be clear. None of this is necessary. It is happening because [of] a choice that Repu...
Burmese Oppositions Tenure in Government Under Scrutiny Former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi's historic election raised hopes she, and the National League for Democracy, would become vocal opponents of Burmas rights abuses. But after siding wit...
One Year On, India Fights to Remain Polio-Free To get a sense of how India was able to fight the highly contagious and crippling polio virus, one does not have to look any further than this home - in a Muslim-majority area of Ghaziabad, in the northe...
Ahead of Kenyan Elections, Some Take Precautions Kenyans around the country are preparing for Mondays elections, and the possibility of violence afterward. Hip-hop artist Moroko Lenakore lives in Kibera, one of Nairobis largest slums, and a center of...
Iran, Israel and Palestinians To Top AIPAC Convention Every year, thousands of Jewish Americans arrive in Washington for the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - or AIPAC. The group is the most influential pro-Israel lo...
