Moviemakers are hoping that watching a city getting destroyed will be popular at movie theaters. That seems to be the case for Godzilla vs. Kong, a movie about a battle between the two huge monsters. It is one of the few blockbusters to be released w...
United States officials caught 171,000 people trying to illegally cross the U.S. border with Mexico last month. That is 178 percent more than in February. 美国官员上周逮捕了17.1万试图非法越过美墨边境的人士。这比二月份增加...
With Internet Restricted, Myanmar Activists Turn to Radio to Reach Public As Myanmar's military leaders continue to restrict internet use, some pro-democracy activists have turned to radio to get their message out. On April 1, operators of Federal FM...
Vietnam's legislature voted for Pham Minh Chinh, a career security official, as the country's new prime minister Monday. Chinh succeeded Nguyen Xuan Phuc who was named president. The votes of the 500-member National Assembly followed decisions made i...
A new study suggests that long periods in space can cause the human heart to shrink. The study -- by a team of American researchers -- comes as the U.S. makes plans to build a long-term base on the moon and prepares to send astronauts to Mars. Part o...
In the small town of Miami in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, people do not have as much money as they used to. Many lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are even homeless. 在美国中部俄克拉荷马州的迈阿密小镇，人...
50-Year-Old Nigerian Woman Goes to School for First Time Until recently, Shade Ajayi had never gone to school. Now 50, the businesswoman is learning to read and write alongside students nearly 40 years younger than she is. Ajayi attends a school in I...
Ancient Coins May Solve Age-old Murder Mystery A few coins found in rural areas of the United States, including the state of Rhode Island, may help solve one of the oldest murder mysteries. The murderer in this story is an English pirate who became t...
In Brazil, a single mother of six children and the country's leader are almost neighbors. But Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira and President Jair Bolsonaro seem to occupy different universes. She lives beside a landfill along with 36 other families. Their...
Microsoft has announced a contract with the U.S. Army worth almost $22 billion to produce augmented reality headsets. 微软公司宣布与美国陆军达成一项价值220亿美元的合约，为美国军方生产增强现实头戴设备。 Augmente...
A computer chip shortage has left several manufacturing industries struggling. Makers of products such as video game consoles, smartphones and cars are among those affected. Computer chips are small devices that contain electrical circuits and are us...
The American college basketball tournaments known as March Madness look a little different than they used to. There are very few fans watching the games in person. The players stay in safe areas called bubbles in the states of Texas and Indiana. But...
Making Things 'from Scratch' And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Some people get great joy and satisfaction from doing things by themselves. That is why DIY, or do-it-yourself, projects are so popular. Such projects became ev...
The Ferris wheel in Singapore was getting hit with raindrops. But the migrant workers riding the Singapore Flyer did not seem to mind. They were trying to see the city skyline from above. They were just a small number of at least 20,000 workers getti...
This weekend some Americans celebrate the Christian holiday of Easter. Others observe the Jewish holiday of Passover. And many are looking to the arrival of spring. Easter is when Christians celebrate the life of Jesus and what they believe was his r...
