By Parke Brewer Cologne 20 June 2006 Not all World Cup football fans who have traveled to Germany for the tournament have tickets or hotel rooms - or can even afford them. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer spoke to some of them at a campground outside...
By Michael Bowman White House 19 June 2006 Vice President Dick Cheney has defended domestic surveillance and other controversial federal measures to detect potential terrorist threats in the United States. Cheney, who usually shuns the public spotli...
By Al Pessin Washington 19 June 2006 S. Koreans use binoculars to look at the North side from Imjingak near the border village of the Panmunjom, north of Seoul, June 18, 2006 The Defense Department says in the absence of any statement by the North K...
By Doug Levine Washington 19 June 2006 Offstage she's Mrs. Mindi Abair-Steele, but onstage fans still know her as jazz sax sensation Mindi Abair. As we hear from VOA's Doug Levine, getting married was just one of several life-changing events that fi...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 June 2006 Leader of Burundian rebel NLF group Agathon Rwasa, right, and Burundi's Minister for the Interior and Public Security Brig. Erneste Ndayishimye, left, sign an agreement in Dar Es Salaam, June 18, 2006 The gover...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 19 June 2006 watch Gates Retire report Bill Gates (file photo) Bill Gates, the man who built the world's largest software company, says he will give up his daily management duties at Microsoft in two years to devote more...
By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 19 June 2006 watch Youth Soccer report Memory, a young player from Uganda A group of young football (soccer) players from all over the world have been in the United States at the invitation of the U.S. State Department c...
By Michael Bowman White House 19 June 2006 President Bush says Iran faces greater isolation and heavier sanctions, if it rejects an international package of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment. Mr. Bush spoke in New York, hours before his sched...
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 19 June 2006 watch Cervical Cancer report Cervical cancer vaccine A couple of weeks ago, the world's first vaccine against a cancer that affects women was hailed as a medical breakthrough. Non-profit agencies and a bi...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 19 June 2006 The founding legal secretary in Zimbabwe's divided opposition Movement for Democratic Change, David Coltart, has announced he has joined the faction of the party lead by scientist Arthur Mutambara. -----------...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 19 June 2006 In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the insurgency wracking other parts of the country seems remote. In a region that has long attended to its own affairs, people are looking to the future. In the cit...
By Noel King Khartoum 19 June 2006 Sudanese children collect water from a well in the village of Brikatouly in South Darfur, Sudan The top United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Sudan says that fighting among rebel factions is blocking humanitar...
By Marianne Kearney East Timor 19 June 2006 East Timor's FM Jose Ramos-Horta, right, rebel leader Vincente da Concecao, 2nd right, talk to rebel group in a mountin village, East Timor, June, 19, 2006 The leader of a breakaway militia group in East T...
By Kurt Achin Gwangju, South Korea 19 June 2006 North and South Koreans recently marked the anniversary of the start of efforts to bring decades of animosity to an end. Six years ago, leaders of both countries met for the first and only time. The su...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 19 June 2006 Indonesian health officials say the country must cull more poultry to curb growing numbers of avian influenza infections. Indonesia has confirmed its 39th human death from bird flu, and outbreaks continue. -----...
