The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Members of Congress from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi are appealing to the administration to shorten the six-month moratorium.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

Girls from poor families can miss up to a week of school each month because they do not have enough money for supplies.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

They earn anywhere from a few hundred dollars a month to several million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Last month, a team from the University of California at San Diego became the latest group to travel to the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Scientists from around the world met in Tanzania last month to discuss the situation.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

From historic exhibits to music festivals,this year's Hispanic Heritage Month makes the same appeal.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

This month,export prices for Southeast Asian rice have jumped from about $550 a ton or less to more than $650.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

His earlier attempt to have all African members states withdraw from the ICC in protest was rejected last month.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

They will discuss a tentative agreement, reached earlier this month in Geneva,for uranium from Iran to be enriched outside that country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

And France-based Airbus will boost production of its popular single aisle jets from 34 to 36 per month.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

American casualties have jumped from fewer than 40 per month until June of this year, to 70 or more every month since then.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

He said billions of dollars from the economic stimulus bill he signed last month will go to encourage and support energy research and development.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

President Obama says the U.S.and the EU are intensifying efforts to get a climate deal next month, when negotiators from around the world meet in Denmark.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

But late last month, Muse failed to come home from school.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

But Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings noted what he called a major improvement with job losses going from 700,000 per month at the start of the recession to 11,000 in November.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Meanwhile, Russia has pulled out of ministerial talks with NATO scheduled for later this month to protest the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from its mission at alliance headquarters in Brussels.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

However,the U.S.State Department says Holbrooke will meet with relief organizations and some of the Pakistanis who have been forced from their homes during Pakistan's month-long campaign to dislodge militants from Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

It's a virulent strain that occurs when a person with TB fails to complete the six to nine-month course of medication or catches TB from another person who is ill with a drug resistant-strain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

He described Barak as a war criminal. Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly imposed the settlement freeze last month, under pressure from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

U.S.Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry was asked to explain cables he reportedly sent to President Obama last month from Kabul, questioning the wisdom of sending thousands of additional U.S.troops to Afghanistan while concerns persisted about Afghan President Hamid Karzai's leadership.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Mr.Netanyahu has been a strong supporter of Jewish settlement in all of the biblical land of Israel, but he imposed the construction freeze last month after urging from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

But the basic implication is that if the past repeats itself, if one could replicate the past, the implication is as follows: Those seeking to gain fast profits, they should try and profit from the fast, buying shares prior to the start of Ramadan and selling them at the end of the Holy Month or,preferably, immediately after Eid al-Fitr, where our results begin to decline.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05