This past week,volunteers from Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world gathered in Solferino to mark the anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The report said the company was still in the red, but was able to cut its loss from the year before.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The Red Cross has been unable to bring in food or remove the wounded and sick from the area of fighting.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Workers stand outside stores, ringing a bell and collecting money in a red metal kettle from shoppers passing by.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

There have been several proposals to pump water into the Dead Sea from the Red Sea or the Mediterranean.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Information that is used to draw attention away from the real facts of a situation is called a red herring.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

"It wasn't that important. But when I married, it was always a dozen red roses from my husband.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

His "Red Violin" concerto was developed from music that he wrote for the movie of the same name.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

A question from Taiwan: Chung Li wants to know why his face turns red when he drinks alcohol.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

She learned from Henrietta's friends that she loved to dance and to paint her fingernails and toenails red.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

On the Big Island, red-hot lava has been flowing from the Kilauea volcano since the early nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

These include the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland which opens in the United States this week.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

One wedding dress from Egypt is made of red material covered in designs of gold thread.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

One red and gold carpet from the seventeenth century has complex patterns and animal designs.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

They appear red. Light waves from an object speeding toward you will have shorter wavelengths.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

They were included in a publication from the Red River Lumber Company in Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

The long,brownish red wall protects the white sand and coastal grasses from the sea.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

They also saw meteorites known to have come from the red, or reddish,planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

He saw them,and kneeling down he pulled from his pack three huge,red apples.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

But the American Red Cross said that, in the interest of public safety, it would no longer accept blood donations from people who admit to having the condition.

VOA: special.2011.01.18