Last month, gunmen kidnapped a retired army general in Cancun, a beach city popular with American college students on spring break.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute plan to launch a free service next month.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

One reason the Smithsonian picked April to honor jazz is because many great jazz artists were born this month.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Some may have been trying to get permits approved before building codes changed this month in California, Pennsylvania and New York.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

This week, we report about poetry and jazz because April is a special month for both arts in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

California's finances have become so bad, this month the state began to buy goods and services with promises to pay later.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

By the end of this month,he said, the United States will have brought home more than ninety thousand troops.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Two groups the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released the report earlier this month.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

(Music) Those were comments from people who took part in the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk held in Washington,D.C.,last month.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

A week later, he pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

They had died. The battle at Cold Harbor ended one month of fighting for the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Less than one month after the test at Alamogordo, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

She was sixty-six years old. Earlier that month, she had announced that she would not return to coaching that season.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Just last month, Saudi Arabia got its first woman cabinet member, Noura al-Fayez, the deputy minister for women's education.

VOA: special.2009.03.07