Born the son of a minister in Houston,Texas, he learned to play saxophone at age four.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

The president would have become, in effect,a prime minister, requiring the support of Congress to remain in office.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

It was led by local black leader E.D.Nixon and a young black minister, Martin Luther King,Junior.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Emperor Hirohito appointed a new prime minister and ordered him to explore the possibilities of peace.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The British foreign minister proposed a treaty that would make the forty-ninth parallel of latitude the border between the United States and British Oregon.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Somalia's Prime Minister is calling for a halt to ransom payments to pirates and kidnappers.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

In the spring of eighteen sixty-seven, the Russian minister in Washington made a surprise offer.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

A visiting Christian minister gave the mountains these biblical names in nineteen sixteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Also Friday,Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg led a national memorial service in Oslo,the capital.

VOA: special.2011.07.30

But the prime minister campaigned on a promise of a "more equal" relationship.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

This week, Britain's finance minister announced a new tax on big banks.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

In fact,his grandfather, a former prime minister, helped form the party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The president would have become, in effect,a prime minister.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Her father was a Baptist minister.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Her mother was also a Methodist minister.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

And Turkey's Prime Minister indicated he might not attend a mid-April nuclear energy summit in Washington hosted by President Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa immediately made a brief address to parliament, saying this was a very painful moment.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

The president would have to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the Parliament speaker a Shi'ite.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The former French finance minister said a recovery depends on the effectiveness of policies implemented in the main economies.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

In Russia,the announcement on the nuclear arms treaty was made by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a live nationwide television statement.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Addressing fellow politicians in the House of Commons Wednesday, a somber Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to the fallen.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Al-Zaidi missed Mr.Bush when he threw both shoes on December 15, during a press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12