In some cases the child takes the mother's surname as a middle name and the father's name as the family name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

As of Tuesday, seventy-three countries had reported more than twenty-six thousand cases of the new H1N1 flu virus.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported two hundred twenty-five confirmed human cases as of July second.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

She said doing so could be seen as pre-judging cases that the Supreme Court might consider.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

As computers reach more children in developing countries, so too in many cases is the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

As solicitor general, she argues cases for the United States government before the Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

But the National Down Syndrome Society says many of these cases are curable as well.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

"Talking about Islam as the only religion, leading to views that are clearly problematic, and in some cases led to terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

That is the way that fault operates as well." In other cases, the plates may move up and down, rather than from side to side.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

Other cases are different. As they wash dishes in the safety of the courtyard, Liseth and her friends are reconsidering their plans after the harrowing trip across Guatemala.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The decision late Wednesday from the Geneva-based body comes the same day as Germany and Austria announced their first confirmed cases of swine flu, raising the total number of countries affected to 10.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

As in other cases during the past few years, average travelers are now the ones paying the price by spending even more time in international airport terminals and undergoing increased screening, while security officials attempt to figure out just went wrong and who was responsible.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Dutch Foreign Minister Verhagen, for his part, said the abuse of young women is not limited to developing countries as evidenced by recent highly publicized cases of murder, long-term abduction and exploitation of young women in Europe and the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"If you've ever worked on these cartel cases as I have as a prosecutor, you know a wall is not the best way to spend our dollars to prevent these drugs from coming into the United States and being able to apprehend and prosecute the smugglers themselves,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24