It has 1,600 full-time residents, but in the summer months the population swells to about 20,000.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

BP has already spent over $1 billion on the clean-up operation .

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Army officials say that the anti-Taliban campaign has killed more than 1,800 militants and the United Nations says the offensive has dislocated nearly two million people from the insurgency hit areas.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

The new policy announcement comes a day before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Mexico to discuss efforts to confront drug-related violence, which has killed more than 1,000 people in Mexico this year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24