The report calls for stronger steps to be taken by advanced economies to reduce carbon emissions, seen as the main cause of global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Professor Fouad Ajami, who directs the Middle East Studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks President Assad is well placed to act as mediator with Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The bloody assault on the beaches of Normandy would change the course of the war, allowing the Allies to liberate occupied France and advance into Germany, as Soviet troops advanced against the Germans from the East.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02