In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on and even off -- the Gulf coast.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

And they got meaningful on-the-job training for what is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing careers of the future.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

A stopper device on the tube-like container held food for the ants as they traveled to their new homes.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

The report shows that more people work on weekdays than on Saturday and Sunday - the traditional weekend days.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

I.C.C.countries also agreed to delay any action by the court on aggression until they re-examine the issue in seven years.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

So the voting continued. Finally,on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

That worries community leaders on the Space Coast -- the area around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The people who collected customs -- taxes on imports -- could keep part of the money they collected.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

As it happens, the plan was announced on May sixth -- the same day as the "flash crash" on American stock markets.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

But the president says he will not let health reform be paid for in his words -- "on the backs of middle-class families."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

The findings suggest that thinning during the on-crop year can increase the value of off-year pecan crops.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

For example,a poem called "The Death of the Hired Man" begins: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table, Waiting for Warren.

VOA: special.2011.04.17