Many people love to watch basketball. The Lakers are a great basketball team. The Clippers are a terrible basketball team. Both teams call Los Angeles their home. They play at the Staples Center. The Staples Center is new. It is a shiny new arena. It...
LA brush fire closes Getty Museum Hundreds of people have been evacuated (被撤退) from the world-famous Getty art museum in Los Angeles as a brush fire rages in nearby mountains, officials say. The fire broke out around 1300 local time (2000 GMT)...
Yvonne: Hello! You're listening to Entertainment from bbclearningenglish.com and I'm Yvonne Archer. Today, we find out about a very abrupt ending to the making of a film that's based on a prize winning book by author Monica Ali. The book is about a...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 01 April 2008 Ted Turner, head of the public charity organization UN Foundation, has announced a new partnership with two Protestant churches to raise $200 million for the eradication of malaria in Africa. From Unit...
By Craig Fitzpatrick and Larry London Washington, DC 12 January 2007 watch Joan Jett report Joan Jett has been involved in rock music for over 25 years -- especially the punk style that developed as an alternative to mainstream rock 'n' roll during...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 01 December 2006 A Democratic lawmaker and three-decade veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol has been selected to head the committee in the U.S. House of Representatives overseeing U.S. intelligence activities. VOA's Dan Ro...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 21 November 2006 An Israeli factory worker was critically wounded Tuesday by rockets fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. The rockets landed near a U.N. team visiting southern Israel, led by the U.N. High Commiss...
By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 watch Living Wage report Lawmakers in the Midwest U.S. city of Chicago have approved a measure requiring large-scale discount stores to pay their employees a so-called living wage. As VOA's George Dwyer...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 26 March 2006 Hundreds of thousands of marchers crowded the streets of Los Angeles Saturday to protest proposals to toughen enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. Similar...
By David McAlary Washington 02 February 2006 U.S. government meteorological experts say the global climate condition known as 'La Nina' has returned, heralding a realignment of weather patterns around...