Shuttle Discovery left behind a pink and gold plume of smoke as it took off Sunday evening, with the sun setting on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Pink is commonly used by groups that try to raise money to search for a cure for the disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

An animal called a weasel saw the silvery pink babies and thought they were weasel babies.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

This newly discovered iguana has a pink head with black stripes on its body.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

She came back a minute later with bright eyes and pink cheeks.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

A few are pink or light blue.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Pink is a lighter kind of red.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Now it was not just any old cake. It came in the round cake pans, and I baked it, but then I attempted to cut out a heart and used pink icing and decorated it.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I paddled a surfboard into this inlet that was pink red with blood from these large dolphins, these pilot whales that were being piked.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The leading gondola carried a bright pink coffin symbolizing the death of the city.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14