Thailand Celebrates King's Birthday by Releasing 1,066 Turtles Hundreds of people gathered at a beach in Thailand on Wednesday to release 1,066 turtles into the sea. The event was one of many around the country celebrating the birthday of Thailand's...
Kenyan Girls Develop App to End FGM Five Kenyan schoolgirls have developed an app to help women and girls end female genital mutilation (FGM). The girls will soon take part in the yearly international Technovation competition in California. Technovat...
Google Giving Money to Groups That Help People Find Jobs Google is offering financial assistance to groups that can help people get the skills and connections they need to find jobs. Jacquelline Fuller is president of Google.org. On Wednesday, she sa...
American Football Player Leaves NFL to Study Math This is Whats Trending Today. John Urschel was living a life many athletes only dreamed of. He was a player in the National Football League (NFL). 约翰尤索（John Urschel）过着很多运动员只能...
Iran Launches Rocket, Trump Seeks to Test Nuke Deal Iran announced Thursday that it had successfully launched a rocket carrying a satellite into space. State television in Iran claimed the Simorgh rocket can carry a 250- kilogram satellite as far as...
A species of armyworm has spread to over 20 African countries and threatens Africa's main food crop -- maize. The warning comes from the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Joseph Huesing works as an advisor to USAID. He sus...
If they are in Raqqa, theyre gonna die in Raqqa. Those are the words of Brett McGurk, the United States top representative to the coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) group. Last month, McGurk spoke about IS forces in the northern Syrian city of...
Welcome to Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. On this program we explore the origin and history of American expressions and teach you how to use them. Today we focus more on history than usage. We are going to answer an age-old quest...
Renu Khator, the president of the University of Houston, is unlike most presidents of colleges and universities in the United States. For one thing, she was born in India. And she did not speak any English when she arrived in the U.S. at the age of 1...
A robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant this week to take pictures of the reactor destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The robot, nicknamed 'The Little Sunfish,' is very small about the size of a loaf of bread....
WHO: Almost 13 Million Babies Missed Vaccines in 2016 The World Health Organization (WHO) says almost one in 10 babies worldwide received no vaccines in 2016. 世界卫生组织表示，2016年全球有近十分之一的婴儿没有接种疫苗。 Th...
Some Summer Movies May Be Oscar Contenders In past years, most big summer films have been action movies. Stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone became known for appearing in summer movies. 过去几年，很多夏季上映的大电影都...
Washington, D.C. has a complex relationship with graffiti and street art. Local street artist Gobi knows this well. Not long ago, a police officer caught him spraying colorful paint on the side of a building. Gobi did not get permission to put his de...
One day, a man named Bartholomew, not an important man, stopped at the Nopalito ranch house. It was noon and he was hungry. He sat down at the dinner table. While he was eating, he talked. Mrs. Yeager, he said, I saw a man on the Seco Ranch with your...
US Senator John McCain Has Brain Cancer Senator John McCain has brain cancer. 参议员约翰麦凯恩（John McCain）患有脑瘤。 McCain, 80, is a Republican who lost the 2008 presidential election to Democrat Barack Obama. He is considered a wa...
