The suspected terrorist was thought to have been involved in a 2002 bombing of an Israeli tourist hotel on the coast of Kenya and a botched attempt at shooting down an Israeli charter jet the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

About the size of a small dog, echidnas look like a mixture of a porcupine, an anteater,a pig and a mole.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

In the ruling, Chief Justice John Marshall described a corporation as an "artificial being" that is a "creature of the law."

VOA: special.2010.03.05

A week later, he pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

He took a room in an old house next to a magnificent garden filled with strange flowers and other plants.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Van Buren had been president for just a few days when an economic crisis and a political storm struck the country.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

In nineteen fifty, on Jack Benny's radio program, they did a skit about an early visit to their talent agent.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

So Winslow's father found him a job as an assistant in the trade of making and preparing pictures for printed media.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION - an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

An A is worth four points, a B three points, a C two points and a D one point.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

And many have. Yet now comes a study showing an increase in the number of injuries in "phys ed" class.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

In fact,he is one of only a few entertainers ever to have won an Oscar, an Emmy,a Grammy and a Tony award.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

He tells the story of a boy in an immigrant neighborhood that connects two cultures, Mexican and American.

VOA: special.2010.06.21