In the first of the two tragic events, survivors report the boat capsized early Saturday night when the smugglers began to push passengers over board into the waters off the coast of Yemen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

In the first season of the show, Sookie's friends are not very happy that she is interested in a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

The Federal Housing Finance Agency said home prices fell seven percent in the first three months of the year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

The tests are the first step in human clinical trials of two vaccine candidates developed at the University of Cape Town.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The writing on the stone says in large letters: Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The Queen of Soul was the first woman to be honored in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

There are worries that the crisis could be the first of more to come in other parts of the world.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

On Thursday JPMorgan Chase reported more than two billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

And that's probably the simplest of all of them." The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.

VOA: special.2010.03.11