UN: Dont Let Our Future Dry Up June 17 is World Day to Combat Desertification. In 1992, the Rio Earth Summit described desertification as one of the greatest challenges to development. This years theme is drought and water scarcity. Water covers most...
'After Earth' Imagines a Hostile Future Planet General Cypher and his son, Kitai, played by Smith's real-life son, Jaden, are the only survivors. Cypher, stranded in the ships hull, is critically injured. Kitai must to retrieve a beacon 100 kilometer...
IBM Says Computers Will See, Taste, Smell, Touch and Hear Things Better in the Future From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English. Every year, IBM Corporation chooses five new technologies it believes will change the w...
Pakistans Future PM Described as 'Comeback Kid' Nawaz Sharif has been Pakistans prime minister twice before. Last time he was toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled. But now, after historic elections, some are calling the 63-year-old the...
US Holocaust Museum Contemplates Future Without Survivors They once were treated as less than human, but here these Holocaust survivors were heroes. And that meant a lot to Tamara Wohl, who spent the first years of her life in a concentration camp. I...
Cyprus Parliament Passes Financial Measures, Future Uncertain Banks remain closed in Cyprus. But customers still line up at ATM machines trying to withdraw cash. Many fear they could lose their savings if the banks fail. British businessman Terry Con...
Future Smart Devices Will Extend Our Senses Imagine shopping for clothes online and being able to run your hand across the screen on your computer or smartphone to feel the fabrics. That kind of simulation technology could be available within the nex...
Gun Violence Makes Pakistani-Americans Wary of Future Events of mass-murder like December's school killings in the state of Connecticut have horrified people throughout the Unites States. But they are especially distressing to immigrants who came her...
Chavez Health Drives Venezuela Toward Uncertain Future In the days after winning a fourth presidential term of office in October, Hugo Chavez seemed healthy and full of life. But since his December 11 cancer operation in Cuba, he has not spoken or be...
California Attracts Cars of the Future The hills on the west side of Los Angeles are the perfect place for Scott Painter to experience his passion for cars, especially if they are fast and cutting edge. I've had pretty much all the electric vehicles...