By Jim Stevenson Washington 20 December 2007 Thousands of books have been written about sports players and teams. Most focus on a spectacular season or other specific events and accomplishments. But few are as detailed and all-encompassing as a recen...
By Cindy Saine Washington 19 December 2007 A massive spending bill to keep the U.S. government operating through most of next year is now making its way through the House of Representatives after Senate passage late Tuesday. The bill marks another de...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 19 December 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has returned from an emotional visit to Algiers where a car bomb ripped through the U.N. compound December 11, demolishing the offices of the U.N. Refugee Agency and it...
By Margaret Besheer Washington 19 December 2007 A senior Turkish diplomat says U.S. intelligence shared with Turkey led to recent raids inside northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. From Washington, VOA's Margar...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 19 December 2007 On December 27, Kenyans will vote in their second presidential election since Daniel Arap Moi left office five years ago. Although the election is expected to be hotly contested, one thing that voters seem to...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 19 December 2007 The U.N. Security Council failed to break a deadlock over the future of the Serbian province of Kosovo Wednesday. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau reports the failure has raise...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 19 December 2007 A political stalemate in Lebanon that started at the end of 2006 has dragged on through the entire year, culminating in a crisis that has left the country without a president. VOA Middle East Correspondent...
By Jade Heilmann Dakar 19 December 2007 Africa is slowly bridging the gap that divides it from the digital world. Government officials and technology companies are trying to implement programs such as telemedicine and electronic education within the...
By Selah Hennessy Goma, DRC 19 December 2007 The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders says the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly deteriorating. An armed conflict in the east of the country has...
By Al Pessin Kabul 19 December 2007 Afghanistan's defense minister is planning a training surge that would increase the number of Afghan soldiers available to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida by as much as 20 percent by the time the weather improves in...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 19 December 2007 The two leading candidates in Kenya's December 27 presidential elections are everywhere: in full page photos on newspaper covers; staring down from Nairobi billboards; speaking on radio advertisements; and cam...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 December 2007 Aid agencies report significant progress has been made in helping survivors of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami rebuild their lives and livelihoods three years after the disaster struck. While progress has...
By Sonja Pace London 19 December 2007 Three British-linked terrorism suspects have been released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and sent back to Britain. At the same time a French court has convicted five former Guantanamo inmates...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 19 December 2007 A Nigerian rebel leader wants the authorities to free a former governor charged with corruption or face renewed attacks on the oil industry. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports the threat comes at a t...
By Scott Stearns White House 19 December 2007 The United States is boosting fuel efficiency standards in automobiles for the first time in 32 years. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, President Bush signed the new standards into law...
