Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Then Barack Obama heads to Turkey for the last stop on his first trip to Europe as president.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Last month,Mrs.Obama welcomed almost one hundred local students to the first event in the South Lawn Series.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Last month,Rita Levi-Montalcini became the first Nobel Prize Laureate to reach the age of one hundred.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Last month, the WorldFirst Formula Three racing car was set to run in its first competitive race at the Formula Three Championship Final at Brands Hatch.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

It is the first book in a series that Mister Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Last week, Mexico became the first nation to borrow from the I.M.F.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

General Aziz came to power last August in a coup that toppled the country's first freely-elected leader, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Saudi Arabia,which hosts the Hajj and grants visas to participants, first recommended restricting participation last month.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

He says it was not the first time fighting in Burma had forced villagers to flee to Thailand and would not be the last.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Iranian authorities have allowed Swiss diplomats to make only two consular visits to the detained Americans, the first in September and the second last week.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The government appointed five-member panel began its first public hearings in London in an inquiry expected to last until the end of 2010 and possibly beyond.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

"In fact,I am not the first to have said it is the most difficult legislation probably in the last century because it affects literally everybody in America."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31