By Melinda Smith Washington, D.C. 28 August 2006 watch Plan B report American women over the age of 18 can now buy a controversial drug that acts as a contraceptive after unprotected sex. The drug is called Plan B and the U.S. Food and Drug Administ...
By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 28 August 2006 watch Business Travel report Travel analysts say flying business class is becoming more attractive as heightened airport security makes traveling more of a hassle. As VOA's Mil Arcega reports business cl...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans, Louisiana 28 August 2006 watch New Orleans report Tuesday is the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm devastated large areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It prod...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 28 August 2006 Before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans a year ago, the city had one of the highest crime rates in the United States. New Orleans Police Detectives escort suspect Raymond Amison, 18, center, into jai...
By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 28 August 2006 The government of Vietnam says it has granted amnesty to one of the country's highest profile dissidents, Pham Hong Son. Western governments and human rights organizations considered Son a political prisoner....
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 28 August 2006 Kofi Annan arrives in Beirut, Monday After a meeting with the Lebanese Prime Minister and other top officials, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is satisfied Lebanon is committed to the U.N. resoluti...
By Paula Wolfson White House 27 August 2006 President Bush travels Monday to America's Gulf Coast as the region marks the passage of one year since Hurricane Katrina hit landfall. The president plans to visit with storm survivors and inspect reconst...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 27 August 2006 Two Nigerian army soldiers stand guard in Ikang, near Calabar in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Monday, August 14, 2006 Leaders in the Delta region of Nigeria are denouncing a security crackdown ordered by...
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 27 August 2006 Lebanese Sobhi Abbas, top, comforts his son Abbas Abbas, 6-years-old, who was injured while playing with a cluster bomb in Blida, on Saturday August 26, 2006 Two weeks ago, a U.N. brokered truce ended 34 day...
By Nico Gnecchi Nairobi 27 August 2006 U.S. Senator Barack Obama, right, walks with his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama at his father's house in Nyongoma Kogelo village, western Kenya, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 U.S. Senator Barak Obama delighted crowd...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 27 August 2006 Iraq's prime minister says he believes his country's forces will soon be able to maintain security in Iraq without the help of coalition forces. In a television interview Sunday, he indicated Iraqi forces co...
By Doug Levine Washington 26 August 2006 After all these years, has jazzman George Duke finally mellowed out? We get the answer from VOA's Doug Levine who samples Duke's latest album, In A Mellow Tone. -------- George Duke In a Mellow Tone Considere...
By Scott Stearns Washington 26 August 2006 President Bush is marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a pledge that the federal government will continue helping people along America's Gulf Coast rebuild their lives. The killer storm w...
By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 26 August 2006 The genocide trial of Saddam Hussein for a military operation against Iraqi Kurds two decades ago, has brought the Anfal campaign back into the headlines. Prosecutors say 180,000 Kurds were killed and thous...
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 25 August 2006 The American Society of Civil Engineers released a report in New Orleans Friday assessing problems with levees and pumping stations that led to the flooding of the city after Hurricane Katrina hit it a year...
