By Suzanne Presto Hong Kong 24 December 2006 General Bo Mya sitting in his wheelchair during celebrations marking 57th anniversary of army's rebellion against Myanmar junta (file) A longtime leader of Burma's largest ethnic rebel group has died. VOA...
By Peter Heinlein New York 23 December 2006 The UN Security Council unanimously votes to approve a resolution imposing sanctions against Iran The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on Iran for its suspect nuclear program. The vote came near...
23 December 2006 Matthew McConaughey stars in an emotional film that dramatizes the true story of how a football team helped a West Virginia university town rise from tragedy three decades ago. Alan Silverman has a look at We Are Marshall. Matthew M...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 23 December 2006 Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, right, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, at Olmert's official residence in Jerusalem, 23 Dec 2006 Israeli and Palestinian leaders have held a rare summit meeting. As Ro...
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 23 December 2006 The security situation in Baghdad continues to deteriorate as sectarian Iraqi tries to reach the coffin of his relative as it is being carried away from the morgue of a hospital in Baghdad, 21 Dec 2006 vi...
By Scott Stearns White House 23 December 2006 George W. Bush U.S. President George Bush has met with top advisers to plan what he says will be a new way forward in the war in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. President...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Banda Aceh 23 December 2006 An Acehnese man works on building a new house in a village destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, in Banda Aceh, 10 Dec. 2006 Indonesia's devastated Aceh province is still struggling to rebuild two years a...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 23 December 2006 Despite a push for a diplomatic breakthrough at the end of 2006, the effort to keep North Korea out of the nuclear weapons club not only did not succeed - it lost ground. In October, the North defied internationa...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 23 December 2006 watch Christmas Shopping report Holiday shopping The day after Thanksgiving in the United States is often described as the busiest shopping day of the year. But according to the International Council of...
By Melinda Smith and Paul Sisco Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch 2006 Science and Medicine Within the next quarter century, AIDS is projected to be among the top three causes of death around the world. That dire prediction comes from researcher...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 December 2006 Africa has the highest infant and under-five child-mortality rate in the world. It also has the lowest life expectancy at birth. The statistics paint a grim picture of what it means to be a child in Africa. Th...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 December 2006 The leader of the Somalia's powerful Islamist movement, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, says his country is now in a state of war with neighboring Ethiopia, fueling international concerns that it may be too late to...
By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch Holocaust Muslims Muslim leaders gathered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week to honor and remember Holocaust victims from World War II. For those attending, the remembrance was movin...
By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 22 December 2006 watch The Nativity Story report The Nativity Story A new film features some familiar Hollywood plot lines: a scandalous teenage pregnancy and young runaways fleeing the law. What makes this different fro...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 December 2006 United Nations aid agencies warn North Korea will be facing a major food crisis next spring unless donors support critically needed humanitarian assistance programs. They are appealing to donors to forget poli...
