By Madhur Singh Vrindavan, India 24 January 2008 Vrindavan, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is called the City of Widows. Upper-caste Hindu widows who are disowned by their families go there to live. Young and old spend their remaining years si...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 January 2008 The two rivals in Kenya's political crisis met on Thursday for the first time since a disputed election and pledged to seek an end to weeks of unrest that have killed nearly700 people. President Mwai Kibaki and o...
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 24 January 2008 Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is warning of fraud in the country's coming general elections, which are widely expected in March. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from Hong Kong, where the former deputy pr...
By Deborah Block Baghdad 24 January 2008 In Iraq, a top police chief was killed in the northern city of Mosul Thursday after a suicide bomber struck officials touring the site of a previous blast. Two other police officers were killed and one U.S. an...
By VOA Sports Washington, DC 24 January 2008 Unseeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has pulled off a stunning upset in the men's semifinals of the Australian Open in Melbourne, routingNo. 2 seedRafael Nadal of Spain 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Tsonga, rankedNo. 38...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 24 January 2008 Friends and admirers of Heath Ledger are mourning his loss and recalling his achievements in a film career cut short by his death Tuesday at age 28. Mike O'Sullivan looks back on his transition from teen...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 23 January 2008 Zimbabwe police clamped down hard on protesters, beating them as they made their way to a rally, following the brief detention of the founding president of the country's political opposition. As Pet...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 23 January 2008 A senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan says Taliban and al-Qaida forces in the Pakistan border area are turning their attention more toward Pakistan, and are working together to hit Pakistani forces. Major Genera...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 23 January 2008 Residents of the Gaza Strip have flooded across the border into Egypt to stock up on food and other supplies after militants blew a huge hole in the border barricade, eventually opening the wall completely....
By Jessica Berman Washington 23 January 2008 Three antiparasitic drugs may soon be dispensed simultaneously to people living in areas in Africa that are endemic for parasitic worms. The results of a large study from Zanzibar show administering three...
By VOA Sports Washington, DC 23 January 2008 Defending champion Retief Goosen of South Africa has withdrawn from the Qatar Masters golf tournament in Doha with vision problems following eye surgery. Goosen was trying to become the first player to win...
By Tendai Maphosa London 23 January 2008 A new survey reports that an estimated 5.4 million people have died in the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998. Another 45,000 are dying every month. From Lo...
By Nathan King New York City 23 January 2008 The assassination last monthof former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shocked people around the world, including Pakistanis living in the United States. The largest concentration is in an area of B...
By Cathy Majtenyi Masaai Mara National Reserve, Kenya 23 January 2008 Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in Kenya trying to negotiate an end to that country's violent political crisis. The violence began last month during Kenya's disputed pr...
By VOA Sports Washington, DC 23 January 2008 WorldNo. 1men's tennis player Roger Federer of Switzerland continued defense of his Australian Open title with a 7-5, 7-6, 6-4 quarterfinal victory over American James Blake Wednesday in Melbourne. Federer...
