This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iran is observing the thirtieth anniversary of the country's Islamic revolution with a ten-day celebration that began last Saturday. The nineteen seventy-nine revolution forced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi o...
By Tom Rivers London 31 August 2007 On the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, the Princess of Wales, her sons organized a memorial service to pay tribute to their mother, who died in a car crash in Paris. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London reports. P...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 01 October 2006 Mourners walk together on Jimbaran beach to lay wreaths for the bomb blast victims, Bali Relatives and friends of those killed in suicide bombings on Bali one year ago have gathered on the Indonesian island t...
By Mike O'Sullivan San Francisco 10 April 2006 April 18, San Franciscans will remember one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, the Great Earthquake of 1906. Local officials say it is a tim...
DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Polio Vaccine 50th Anniversary By Karen Legget and Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, May 03, 2004 This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Fifty years ago,...