By Ravi Khanna Washington 13 December 2007 Pakistani journalists are accusing the government of trying to silence the free media, after authorities barred them from airing live broadcasts. The accusation follows Pakistan's Electronic Media Regulatory...
By Peta Thornycroft 13 December 2007 Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF has once again endorsed President Robert Mugabe as its presidential candidate. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA the party met in an extraordinary congress in Harare. There was little fest...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 13 December 2007 The British drama Atonement leads the nominees for the Golden Globe Awards, announced early Thursday in Los Angeles. The honors are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and they mark th...
By Paul Sisco Washington 13 December 2007 It has long been known that when days become shorter many individuals experience a form of depression called Season Affective Disorder, or SAD. In this Searching for Solutions report, Paul Sisco reports on on...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bali, Indonesia 13 December 2007 Former U.S. vice president and Nobel Laureate Al Gore blamed the United States on Thursday for blocking progress at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali. He urged delegates to forge ahead...
By Selah Hennessy Goma 13 December 2007 The Congolese army battled with dissident fighters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for control of the strategically important town Rigari. Rebel fighters, loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda, have...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 13 December 2007 European Union leaders are adopting a groundbreaking treaty in Lisbon aimed to streamline and grant more powers to the 27-member institution. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the document is the result of a length...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 13 December 2007 Islamic insurgents in Somalia have shelled the main market in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 13. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the transitional government's security chief says his forces have...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 December 2007 A new report says the last decade is the warmest on record. The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization says data from around the world shows extreme weather patterns increasing in every region. It says...
By Ray McDonald Washington 13 December 2007 One of the founding fathers of rock and roll, Ike Turner, died Wednesday December 12 at his home near San Diego, California. He was 76. The cause of death was unknown. While an architect of the modern rock...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 13 December 2007 North and South Korean generals scuffled briefly on the second day of high-level military talks at the two countries' border. Tension at the talks is fueled by a decades-old dispute over an international demarcati...
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 13 December 2007 A senior Pakistani lawyer says his colleagues will try to challenge the legitimacy of President Musharraf's re-election when Mr. Musharraf lifts the country's state of emergency. Claudia Blume reports from...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Bali, Indonesia 13 December 2007 The head of the United Nations Climate Change Conference is warning that a deadlock between the United States and the European Union over greenhouse gas emission targets may derail the conferen...
By Dan Robinson Washington 13 December 2007 Some lawmakers in the U.S. Congress continue to caution that the recent U.S. intelligence report on Iran's nuclear program does not support a conclusion that Iran has given up its ambitions to develop a nuc...
By David Gollust Washington 12 December 2007 The United States Wednesday joined other countries in condemning the Beirut car bomb assassination of Lebanese Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj, who was set to have become the country's army chief. The a...
