Last week, Mr.Hawass announced plans to resign from his position as head of the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Last week, we said colleges and universities in the United States define plagiarism as representing another person's work as your own.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Last week the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer listed the signals from wireless devices as "possibly carcinogenic."

VOA: special.2011.06.06

South Africa launched the tests last week as the International AIDS Society held a conference in Cape Town.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The speech he gave would be one of his last, as Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe explain this week in our series.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Last week in our series, we talked about the election of Martin Van Buren in 1836 as the eighth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

As we said last week, James Buchanan of Pennsylvania won the presidential election of eighteen fifty-six.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Last week,my sister's car broke down as we were driving to a friend's marriage ceremony.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

As we told you last week, every American state has a nickname.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Officials within the Fatah faction of President Abbas,said last week he was close to resigning as his popularity plummeted.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Last week,U.S.markets slid sharply as several prominent senators from both major political parties announced their opposition to Bernanke's reconfirmation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

All that is in General McChrystal's plan. Last week,Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed for patience as the administration works through the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Many Israelis and Palestinians interpreted Mr.Obama's speech,last week, as a sign that the United States is serious about moving the peace process along.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Prime Minister Meles sat down de-facto with three opposition politicians last week to sign what was hailed as a landmark electoral Code of Conduct.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"Last week,as reported, and 49 others went missing, presumed drowned in the Gulf of Aden,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

In a report published last week, the United Nations says that 2,800 civilians had died in recent weeks, as the army pushed to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

president's actions are the same as his predecessor. (Speech) Larijani argued two actions last week showed that little had changed in U.S.policy since the presidency of George W.Bush.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri (NO TRANSCRIPTS) Hariri met with parliament speaker and opposition Amal party leader Nabih Berri, was reappointed as prime minister last week, days after resigning.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"And as you know, we revised them upward last week. We want to make sure that BP has enough capacity on hand to handle the increased flow rate estimates."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Most of those killed in last week's earthquake died when a landslide triggered by the quake swept boulders as big as trucks across a dozen homes in the village of Cikangkareng.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Burma is also known as Myanmar. Last week,Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would pursue direct engagement with Burmese authorities, but that the U.S.would continue to employ sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Last week as he began his trip to Africa, Pope Benedict angered many AIDS activists when he rejected the use of condoms to fight the disease, saying condoms aggravate the problem.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

And the Jordanian monarch came to the White House last week as a prelude to a new round of personal diplomacy by the president designed to get the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Democrats controlling both committees will use as a basis revised figures released last week by the Congressional Budget Office that project a more than $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009,substantially more than the Obama administration's initial estimate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Nepal's government has been in crisis since Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal - known as Prachanda - resigned last week after his call to oust the head of the Nepali Army was revoked by the president.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who just took office last week, said his country hopes to be a "bridge" for the world as it faces challenges such as the global financial and economic crisis, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and eradicating poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Last week,President Talabani visited Istanbul to urge Turkish leaders to approve an amnesty for Kurdish rebels, as well as according more cultural freedom to its own Kurdish minority, as part of the framework of a deal to end the PKK's terror activities.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23