And lawmakers in one U.S.state are trying to make attacks using social media illegal following the suicide of a young girl who received abusive messages online.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

As a young girl, Professor Nyokong says she went to school on some days and took care of sheep on other days.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The young girl had witnessed a part of the historic tsunami of December twenty-sixth,two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

One of Gershwin's musical plays, "Girl Crazy, " introduced a young singer named Ethel Merman.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The Girl Scouts is a national organization of young women and girls.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

This is what she wrote as a young girl: "Sometimes a sense of loneliness covers me like a cold mist I sit alone and wait at life's shut door.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Critics say it's a stretch to describe a man who had 11 wives, one of whom was a young girl, as a supporter of women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Also attending was the mother of an American Muslim soldier named Kareem Khan who was killed in Iraq, and Nashala Hearn, a young girl who led a successful legal battle for the right to wear a traditional head covering to school.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

"We saw this weekend the video of the death of Nada, a young girl on the streets of Tehran, as well as about a dozen others reports even by the Governing Council of Iran that the votes in 50 Iranian cities were more than the number of people that lived in those cities."

VOA: standard.2009.06.23