And there are increasing reports from South America as well as from other southern countries.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Mister Amaya even buys the flour for his pastas from an American producer so that he does not have to import flour from as far away as Italy.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

He acknowledged that the situation today is serious with threats emanating from insurgents inside Afghanistan as well as from across the border in the mountains of Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

President Zardari has been harshly criticized by some within the Pakistani community in Britain, as well as from back home, for taking this trip - especially at a time when Pakistan is experiencing the worst flooding in decades.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

It is really 10 telescopes that are as distant from one another as Hawaii and the United States Virgin Islands.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

He saw outsider artwork as being free from the worries of competition and social acceptance that define the official art world.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

They noted that some groups, as they move away from traditional ways of life, are developing diseases of modern living.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath;

VOA: special.2011.06.06

She signed it. Then,as she started to rise from the table, Azalea Adair fainted and fell to the floor.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

As you might have guessed from his name, Harpo Marx was famous for playing the musical instrument called the harp.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Heidi Kuhn says landmines must be removed from the earth just as cancer is removed from the body.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

But he did not receive as much interest from the national media as other top players like Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays.

VOA: special.2010.04.11