By Ravi Khanna Washington 02 January 2008 Days after opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's funeral, and nationwide riots, some people are choosing peaceful ways to channel their anger and frustration. In cities across the count...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 02 January 2008 Arts and culture account for nearly $21 billion of New Yorks annual economy and provide 160,000 jobs, according to the latest report by the Alliance for the Arts, a private organization. The arts draw m...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 02 January 2008 Officials in Pakistan say parliamentary elections will be delayed until next month. VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins in Islamabad reports the Pakistan Election Commission says the delay is due t...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 02 January 2008 South American drug cartels are increasingly using unsecured West Africa as a transit point to get drugs to Europe and also back to the United States. But this route has a spillover effect in Africa, disrupting...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 January 2008 Australia's new left-of-center Labor government says it will review a controversial citizenship test. Some people are critical of the test's high rate of failure by applicants, who are quizzed about Australian hi...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 02 January 2008 At least four people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in a bombing by suspected Tamil rebels in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. The bomb attack came a day after a prominent Tamil lawmaker was s...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 02 January 2008 There is cautious hope that Australia's long drought is about to break. The La Nina weather pattern has drenched parts of the arid continent in recent months. Sydney had its wettest November in more than a decad...
By William Eagle Washington 01 January 2008 Corruption was a hot issue in Kenya's election last week, and analysts say it will continue to be during the next several years. Many of the ruling party's best known legislators and Cabinet members were...
By Scott Stearns White House 01 January 2008 President Bush says he is eager to get back to work after starting the new year with family friends on his Texas ranch. VOA White House correspondent Scott Stearns has the story. Before returning to the Wh...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 01 January 2008 A mob set fire to a church in western Kenya Tuesday, killing about 30 people inside who were seeking refuge from widespread post-election violence. Witnesses say the fire was set by a gang of young men who pour...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 01 January 2008 A new report from an Israeli human-rights group says the death toll in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fell sharply in 2007. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from our Jerusalem bureau. Last year Israeli security forc...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 01 January 2008 The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum says it is unclear why an American diplomat and his driver were shot and killed early Tuesday in the Sudanese capital. The diplomat was identified as 33-year-old John Granville, his d...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 01 January 2008 India remains one of the few countries where polio has not been eradicated. Most of the world's new cases are reported in the subcontinent. While the total number of cases dropped in India last year, VOA cor...
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 01 January 2008 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has renewed his call for Hamas militants to accept early elections. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, internal Palestinian clashes in Gaza have killed at least six Pa...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 01 January 2008 India witnessed impressive economic growth for the fifth straight year in 2007. As Anjana Pasricha reports from VOA's New Delhi bureau, the surging South Asian economy is attracting the attention of forei...
