Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The group persuaded George Washington University to provide money for a 4-year scholarship.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Sixteen-year-old Jarrah was with a group of Chinese students visiting the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

This eight-year-old nonprofit group is supported by foundations, companies and individuals.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

But eighteen-year-old Julia Holmblad joined the group for a different reason.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

In 2008 the group launched a five-year global tour of a specially-designed sailboat with the date "2041" emblazoned on its side.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

The top-three teams in the six-nation group advance to next year's World Cup finals in South Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

A woman named Liseth, who has just arrived at the house carrying her two-year-old daughter, is one of a group of three women who say they crossed Guatemala from their native Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

In September,a power struggle erupted in violence in the lower Juba region between al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, a clan-based Islamist-nationalist group which had been al-Shabab's main ally in its year-long battle to overthrow the U.N.-backed government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02