The money is to be used to expand small irrigation projects to the other half of India's twenty-eight states.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Within two months of Cleveland's inauguration, the United States entered into one of the worst economic depressions in its history.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Researchers from the University of Kansas in the United States and Chinas Northeastern University reported their findings earlier this year.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Five years later she led the United States women's basketball team in the Goodwill Games and FIBA World Championship.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Last year, Selena Gomez became the youngest person to be named a United Nations Children's Fund Ambassador in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

He said Japan's alliance with the United States will remain what he called the "foundation" of his government's diplomacy.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Today we tell about the highest level of men's soccer in the United States - Major League Soccer.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

The shoe is small -- a European size thirty-seven, or a women's size seven in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Gemini's purpose was to bring the United States closer to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Seven states and the nation's capital held primary elections on Tuesday to choose candidates for the November elections.

VOA: special.2010.09.18

The United States Senate and Russia's parliament must both approve the agreement for it to take effect.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

But forty years later, "Sesame Street" is the longest running children's television program in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

We attended this year's United States Air Guitar Championships in Washington,D.C.to learn more about this unusual activity.

VOA: special.2009.08.14