Gaza's Only Grand Piano Makes Public Comeback The only grand piano in the Palestinian territory of Gaza was played in public this week for the first time in 10 years. Palestinian and Japanese musicians played the piano for 300 people at a November 25...
Ukraine Seeks NATOs Help in Dispute with Russia Ukraine is asking the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, for help after Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko urged NATO countries to...
Suicides and Drug Overdose Deaths Push Down US Life Expectancy Suicides and drug overdoses were two reasons for an increase in the number of deaths in the United States last year. They also were partly to blame for a continuing decrease in how long A...
Our story today is called Luck. It was written by Mark Twain. Here is Shep ONeal with the story. I was at a dinner in London given in honor of one of the most celebrated English military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and ti...
If you can write or speak even just a little English, you have surely used prepositions -- words like to, in, on, at and by. A preposition is a word or group of words that shows direction, location or time. Today on Ask a Teacher, we have a question...
It was beautiful in Washington, DC, this morning! I could see the sun shining and hear birds singing. So, I decided to walk to work. As I walked down 6th Street, I smelled a delicious scent. I followed it and found a lovely French bakery! There, I sa...
Rural US School Has Just One Student, One Teacher A rural area in the western United States has a very unusual school. The school, in the state of Wyoming, has just one student and only one teacher. It is called Notch Peak Elementary. The only studen...
Experts Meet to Understand Decrease in Humpback Whales Off Hawaii Every winter, thousands of humpback whales migrate from Alaska to the warmer waters near the Hawaiian Islands. There, they have sex and give birth before making their return trip north...
Indonesias National Safety Commission says airplane equipment and carrier safety failures are to blame for the deadly Lion Air crash last month. The government report suggests the airplane should have been removed from service because of earlier repo...
Study: Undocumented Immigrants in US Reached Ten-Year Low On Tuesday, the Pew Research Center reported that the number of immigrants staying in the United States without permission fell to a ten-year low in 2016. Researchers used government data to s...
Cairo, Egypts capital, is one of the largest cities in Africa and one of the best known in the world. For more than 1,000 years, it has stood on the banks of the Nile River, the longest in the world. The Pyramids of Giza sit close to the citys southw...
The United Nations Climate Summit takes place next week in Poland. About 20,000 people from 190 countries are expected to take part in the conference. There, world leaders will debate how to limit climate change -- the weather events linked to slowly...
First Flight Completed of Plane with No Moving Parts Engineers say they have carried out the first-ever flight of an electric airplane with no moving parts. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, recently shared video of th...
Mexico Increases Border Security after Migrants Attempt to Cross Mexico has begun taking steps to increase security near its border with the United States. Mexican officials announced Sunday that police arrested 39 people after a peaceful march turne...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. Most of us know that physical activity leads to better health. That is nothing new. But for the first time in 10 years, the United States government has changed its guidance on how much...
