We talked last week about a new report on preterm births the leading cause of death in newborn babies worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

We give the last word to Jamar, the high school student from New Jersey, and his hopes for two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Last week,British billionaire Sir Richard Branson showed his new spaceship Enterprise at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

In a different case, a ruling last week in New York has renewed debate about who can "own" genetic information.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The Institute of International Education in New York says last year's top five were India, China, South Korea, Japan and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

In the last ten years, hundreds of American schools have begun to offer a new way to teach foreign languages.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

They say he has admitted driving a car bomb into heavily crowded Times Square in New York City last Saturday.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The president said he expected the Senate to quickly make a last set of legislative fixes needed in the new law.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Last week, a study was released about a new treatment that combines five medicines for heart disease in one pill.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

His last stop was a luggage store where he had all his new clothes put into several expensive suitcases.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Mr.Strauss-Kahn is charged with a sexual attack on a cleaning woman at a New York hotel last Saturday.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created a storm of debate.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

They also used a new,lithium-ion battery that is expected to last longer than batteries in current hybrid cars.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

But last month, the governing conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization approved a new treaty.

VOA: special.2009.12.08