The Navajo tribal park called Monument Valley is a stunningly beautiful, yet also stark and forbidding, place. The largest tribe of American Indians lives on a 6-million-hectare patch of desert and scrub brush that covers much of northern Arizona and...
Health care reform has cleared the U.S. Congress after roughly a year of legislative drama on Capitol Hill. The House of Representatives passed the necessary legislation, on a tight, party-line vote, handing President Barack Obama a crucial victory....
Steve Baragona | Port-au-Prince 22 March 2010 Haitian officials say less food aid and more jobs are needed to get the economy running again. Some major organizations are scaling back donation efforts beginning April 1st. But many Haitians are still i...
Joe DeCapua 22 March 2010 A new report says the United States can advance its interests around the world by investing in a strategic global health policy. It says besides saving lives, a new policy could bolster national security and build new partne...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, 22 Mar 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Israel's security, while ur...
A fight at the Cheongdo bullfighting festival There is not much that can stop an 800-kilogram bull in a bad mood except, perhaps, another bull with a similar disposition. In South Korea, an annual Spring ritual has lots of people cheering for a battl...
Jamat ud Dawa, formerly Lashkar-e Taiba parading in a Pakistani city (file photo) Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Taiba or LET was for a long time considered a militant group fighting Indian rule of Kashmir. But after Chicago-based American David Headley pl...
Thousands of immigrant rights advocates pack the National Mall during an immigration reform rally in Washington, DC, 21 March 2010 Thousands of supporters of immigration reform rallied in the nation's capital on Sunday, voicing their frustration with...
Wounded people lie in the street in Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, where at least 180 black Africans, most of them women and children, were injured and 69 killed, when South African police opened fire on black protesters, 21 Mar 1960 South Africans a...
Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, is right seen as he co chairs the opening of the International donor conference for the development and the construction of Darfur in Cairo, Egypt, 21 Mar 2010 An Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)...
Several days of anti-war activities in Washington have culminated with the procession of symbolic coffins across the streets of the capital. Many demonstrators said they had supported President Barack Obama in his election in 2008, but were now disap...
A media rights activist who defends political cartoonists who come under attack for their work says Muslims should try to better understand the western idea of free speech, even if they find the message offensive to their religion. Police in Ireland...
Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's square at The Vatican, 17 Mar 2010 Pope Benedict has written to Catholics in Ireland to apologize for the sexual abuses carried out by the clergy in that country ov...
Anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok took to the streets in a massive convoy to press their case for the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign and call fresh elections. Many local residents supported the protest adding pressure...
VOA's weekly science and technology radio magazine Art Chimes | Washington DC 19 March 2010 Related Links Origin of dogs (Nature) Origin of dogs (UCLA) Vitamin D study (abstract) Butterfly flight simulator (Reppert lab) Monarch Watch (U. of Kansas) D...
