She sat between richly dressed women who were there to spend the day eating sweets and showing off their costly clothing.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

"Are there people in the world with the foolishness to die because leaves drop off a vine?

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The sad thing is that the majority of people that are killed by malaria are children because there immune system is not strong enough to ward off this infection."

VOA: special.2009.12.22

This is what longtime resident Susan Trinter, editor of the Foggy Bottom News, said in a Washington Post story earlier this year: "There seem to be many more students living off-campus now.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

Two voters in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, where there is a significant Taliban presence, had their ink-stained fingers chopped off by insurgents.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

There will be a run-off election in the presidential contest if no candidate captures more than 50 percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The core of the comic book character is there, but we kind of go off on all these different tangents."

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

A famous standoff took place there when boats arrived from each direction, and neither captain would back off.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"It was scary," "It was a loud firecracker that went off,and there was a fire in the plane."

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Hong Kong health authorities closed off the hotel on May 1 after a confirmed swine flu case - a Mexican tourist who stayed there.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

There have been concerns expressed that a run-off election cannot safely be held in the coming weeks because of security threats and oncoming winter weather.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

"There is a need to break the on-again-off-again cycle of our military-to-military relationship,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Witnesses there say al-Shabab fought off the offensive, but Bula Burte remains tense.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21