For example, scientists recently discovered a group of small organisms that appear to have lived for millions of years under the ice.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Recently,a Maryland woman who remembers going to Poplar Island years ago returned on a guided visit.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Somalia has been without functioning government for 18 years, but is hoping to re-establish rule of law under recently-named President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

Three of the eight soldiers who died most recently were just 18 years old.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

Recently,Japan announced it would provide $5 billion over five years in additional aid to Afghanistan, and would move swiftly to fulfill an existing pledge of $1 billion in economic assistance to Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18