Mad Men,a show about the New York advertising business in the 1960s, won the Emmy for best drama for the second consecutive year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Final results from Mauritania's electoral commission show former General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz winning more than half of the ballots cast making him president without a second round of voting in which his main political opponents had vowed to unite against him.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19