On Wednesday,North Korea extended a rare apology to the South for a flood it unleashed last month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The Federal Reserve recently extended into next year a loan program designed to get investors to buy more securities like these.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

When a baby's head is stuck in the birth canal for an extended period of time, it cuts off the blood supply to the woman's surrounding organs.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Parliament's tenure was extended by a year after it missed the May 2010 deadline for writing the constitution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

That invitation was also extended to a group of North Korean artists, who are displaying their work in Australia for the first time.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

A spokesperson for the British high commission in Islamabad says the envoy has taken "extended leave".

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Last year,President Barack Obama backed Bernanke for a second term, and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs expressed optimism his tenure will be extended.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

She also has good friends and a loving extended family;

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

It's a collection of 100 photographs, featuring an extended forward by Peruviuan writer Marie Arana, who shares her own sense of awe at the place.Like her narrative, Torrey's finely-detailed photographs convey some of the indescribable energy surrounding this mysterious site.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

The State Department said Monday the administration still has a hand extended to Iran despite the chilly reaction by Iran's supreme leader to Mr.Obama's videotaped holiday greeting to Iran late last week, in which he said the United States seeks honest engagement with Iran's Islamic government based on mutual respect.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"President Obama has been all over the Middle East, he's been in Turkey, he's been in Saudi Arabia, he's been in Cairo, and giving major speeches, and he has not spoken to or with the Israeli people or really sort of extended his hand as a partner in this entire process,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.29