US Navy Captures More Pirates, May Take Them to Kenya By Al Pessin Pentagon 12 February 2009 The U.S. Navy has captured nine more suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, after they allegedly tried to board an Indian commercial ship. The same A...
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 out of power and made Ayatollah Khomeini the...
Many American colleges and universities require applications for the fall term to be completed by January first. But some have deadlines of December first. So this was a fitting week for a research group in California to release its latest "national...
Mapping the genes of the woolly mammoth VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week, we will tell about a genetic map for an animal that disappeared long ago. We...
Continued economic weakness has led to another round of interest rate cuts in Europe, while the number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits has reached a 26-year high. For the third time in as many months, the European Central Bank has slas...
Immediate Pay Increase Urged for U.S. Teachers This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Almost half of new American teachers leave the profession within five years. Some get tired of large class sizes, limited planning time and support, a...
