"It all started in 2000 in Kemerovo region, when my friend and his 8-year-old daughter died in a car crash."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports unemployment reached its highest level among industrialized nations of 8.5 percent in July.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

President Obama recently announced that $8 billion in stimulus funds would go to developing high-speed rail corridors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

U.S.prosecutors say Muse is the sole survivor of a hijacking attempt on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia on April 8.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

manufactured goods reversed six consecutive months of declines, posting a 1.8 - percent gain in February.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

In the late semifinal, North Carolina took an 8-6 lead on a three-pointer from Wayne Ellington three minutes into the game and never looked back.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

"The bad news is that we still have 1.8-million deaths per year from tuberculosis.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

One Islamabad research institute estimated nearly 8,000 people were killed in the violence in Pakistan in 2008 - more deaths than the previous three years combined.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"To be honest with you, it's probably been a lot better because I don't know what this site would have been like with 6- or 8,000 more people.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

The Iranian government also did not reply to an Italian invitation to participate in talks on the sidelines of the G-8 foreign ministers meeting later this week in Trieste.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

That's roughly 8 percent of the war-torn country's population.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to have attended the G-8 ministerial, and a weekend meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Greece, but had to cancel because of her recent surgery for a broken elbow.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

Prosecutors say Karadzic was the architect of the killings of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian-Serb forces in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995,as part of an "ethnic-cleansing" campaign to keep areas under Serbian control.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25