Last year, Google said a cyberattack from China had attempted to get information from the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

Last Friday he suffered a torn aorta, a large artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.

VOA: special.2010.12.18

He called it "The Last Tycoon." Fitzgerald's friend from Princeton University, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, helped to get it published.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

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

Last week, Mr.Hawass announced plans to resign from his position as head of the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Last month,the group's festival brought artists from around the world to Washington to celebrate art and art education.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

They believe the simian immunodeficiency virus,S.I.V., probably crossed from chimpanzees to humans in the last one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The group reported in March that employers expected to increase hourly wage offers for college interns by five percent from last year.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

They say funding dropped from about nine hundred thirty million dollars in two thousand seven to eight hundred seventy million last year.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

This is back-to-school season. But the National Retail Federation says school-related sales are down from last year.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

We came down temporarily last summer and made the decision to make it permanent, and we actually drove from Houston to Cabo San Lucas."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

Adding to the problem,scientists say, was an already reduced population, resulting from poor conditions last summer.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

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