And it said this week that final results will likely show two thousand nine was the fifth-warmest year on record.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

About twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to the Suez Canal.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

This year,on July fourth, visitors once again will be able to climb inside the statue all the way to the top.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Harper took his band on the road last year as part of the effort to get young people to vote.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Michael O'Donnell says the F.A.A.is spending between seven hundred fifty thousand and one million dollars a year on radar research.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Each year on that day the National Education Association calls for every child and every community in America to celebrate reading.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a 2-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Many people who work in fishing part of the year also depend on well-paid jobs in offshore energy.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

Each year on November tenth, a ceremony is held there to remember the crew members of the Fitzgerald.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

"Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen is one of the most repeatedly praised books on this year's lists of favorites.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

Mister Quinn says world leaders will discuss the issue later this year at a meeting on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But if the monsoon is very strong, the trees affected by that monsoon might put on a wide ring for that year.

VOA: special.2010.05.25