The secretary of state joined her counterpart from the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen,at a meeting at U.N.headquarters Friday previewing next week's council meeting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Virtually every week since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Friday prayers in Tehran have been punctuated with the ritual cry of "Marg bar Amerika" Death to America.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

She returns to Singapore Friday to join up with President Barack Obama for the APEC summit early next week and Mr.Obama's first visit as President to China.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"Stop the panic," Russia's top official for agriculture commanded Russians on Friday as the nation faced a fourth week of baking hot temperatures more normally associated with North Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The president also addressed an announcement by the U.S.Labor Department Friday that the total number of people asking for unemployment assistance rose to almost 500,000 in the last week of June.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

The World Food Program says it provided high energy biscuits to 7,000 people last week and on Friday it began distributing a one-month ration of cereals, pulses,vegetable oil, salt and sugar to 10,000 people.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21