By Stephanie Ho Washington 04 July 2007 U.S. automaker Chrysler and Chinese car company Chery have signed a deal to launch a low-cost production facility in China that would export cars to the United States and other global markets. VOA's Stephanie H...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 July 2007 Kidnapped BBC Journalist Alan Johnston, freed from captivity in Gaza early Wednesday, has described his experiences in a meeting with the media in Jerusalem. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau...
By Brian Padden Washington 04 July 2007 On the July eighth the Boeing Company will reveal its newest passenger jet in 13 years, the 787 Dreamliner. It is billed as the hottest-selling and most technologically advanced commercial jet ever. Boeing alre...
By Bill Rodgers Washington 04 July 2007 Vice President Dick Cheney is widely considered to be the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a key architect on the war on terror and the Iraq war and -- according to recent news reports h...
By Carol Pearson Washington 04 July 2007 Researchers have found that chocolate dark chocolate is good for your heart. They say it may stave off hardening of the arteries among smokers, and it has more antioxidants per gram than red wine, green tea or...
By Steve Mort Miami, Florida 04 July 2007 Sales of Latin music CDs are on the rise in the United States. Industry figures show that while overall demand for compact discs is declining, sales at U.S. stores stocking CDs from Central and South America...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 04 July 2007 Three of the most important international organizations that deal with food, agriculture, and rural development are calling for an African Green Revolution. The World Food Program (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organi...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 July 2007 Pakistani security forces say time is running out for more than 1,000 militants inside Islamabad's radical Lal Masjid or Red Mosque. Powerful blasts and machine gunfire could be heard around the mosque througho...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 04 July 2007 Across the United States, Americans are celebrating the Independence Day holiday with picnics, fireworks, and a sense of caution.Festivities in the U.S. capital are scheduled to include a concert and fireworks...
By Mona Ghuneim New York 04 July 2007 Three documentaries featured at the annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York this year aim to put a human face on the issues and crises facing Africa today. From New York, VOA's Mona Ghuneim has the st...
By VOA News 04 July 2007 Britain has lowered its national security level from its highest level, critical to severe, indicating that authorities no longer believe a terrorist attack is imminent. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the action does not m...
By Greg Flakus Roswell, New Mexico 04 July 2007 Sixty years ago this July 4, something happened in the desert about 100 kilometers northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. A local newspaper at the time reported that a flying saucer had crashed and that the...
By William Eagle Washington 04 July 2007 In Africa, experts say the deaths of thousands of infants each year from low body temperature, or hypothermia, pneumonia and other illnesses that can strike a child within days of delivery. One way thats gaini...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 04 July 2007 Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says the term Cold War will be forgotten if the United States accepts his country's missile-defense plan for Europe. But Ivanov is also threatening to deploy Rus...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 04 July 2007 A rat in the kitchen: to most people, that would be awful, but in the animated world of the new film from Disney's Pixar Studios and director Brad Bird, it can be a wonderful thing for the whole family. Alan S...
