Prospects for including Lebanon in the peace process have improved with the victory of a Western-backed coalition in elections, this week.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Osteoporosis used to be considered a Western disease, affecting mostly Caucasian women.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

A Western diplomat close to the EU meeting in Harare told VOA it is clear that Mr.Mugabe is blocking full compliance with the political agreement in order to buy time to rebuild ZANU-PF, which has been weakened by internal quarrels and a loss of popular support, even in its traditional strongholds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Three were plant-eaters. They were the western horse, the ancient bison and a two-meter tall animal called the Harlan's ground sloth.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

That year a French biologist who had been studying reefs in the western Atlantic discovered that they are animals.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

For example, a toy from the nineteenth century has two forms, a man in western clothing and a Chinese man.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

They told Brigham Young about a great salt lake in a wide valley on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

"People of Western Europe: a landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

His music is a mix of American country and western, rock and the sounds of the Caribbean islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

"People of Western Europe: A landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force.

VOA: special.2011.06.09