The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

The central aim of the Festival Fringe Society was not to have a selection process deciding who could or could not take part.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

All this was taking place in what is now the south-central part of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The Space Needle was built as the central structure for the nineteen sixty-two World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Gebisa Ejeta was raised in a one-room hut in a rural village in west-central Ethiopia.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

By the eighteen sixties, the Central Pacific Railroad was hiring Chinese workers in huge numbers.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The shortest distance between Missouri and California was across the central part of the country.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

It was made for the central area of a religious center.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

He was also named to the powerful Central Military Commission.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

At 3.32 a.m., the time the deadly quake struck last April 6, a requiem was played in L'Aquila's central Piazza Duomo.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Al-Shabab,which currently controls key towns in southern and central Somalia, was founded several years ago by al-Qaida-trained Somali radicals and is virulently anti-West.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

He says Noordin Top was among the four people killed in the police raid on a militant hideout in Indonesia's Central Java province Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Former Central Bank Governor Ahmed Ould Daddah was third with less than 14 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

Nabhan was believed to be a central operative for the global terrorist group al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16