But first,a report on baseball's bright new star Stephen Strasburg.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

One of Hendrix's last numbers was "The Star Spangled Banner."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

"The Star Spangled Banner" officially became America's national song.

VOA: special.2010.11.14

"Today in Tokyo,beneath the Eifel Tower, in Ghana's Black Star Square, in Johannesburg and Pittsburgh, in Birmingham,Alabama and Birmingham,England, we are missing Michael Jackson,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

O'Hanlon believes the Nobel Committee was blinded by the president's near-pop star status in some countries, and that the young president has no real achievements that merit such an award.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Professor Geraghty says that "Star Trek's" message of hope,community, and self-improvement are central to American culture,history and identity.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

But some of Fred Allen's funniest programs were about his supposed longtime dispute with another radio star,Jack Benny.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

An astronomer at Harvard College, Henrietta Leavitt, had discovered that these periods of brightness could be used to measure the star's distance from Earth.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Sylvie's face was like a pale star when,at last, she reached the tree's highest branch.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Then,many years later, on March third,nineteen thirty-one, "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became America's national anthem.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

The films star,George Clooney, and director,Jason Reitman, also received Academy Award nominations.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

"Star Wars" director George Lucas got his start at the U.S.C.film school.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

You might remember Billie Jean King the women's tennis star.

VOA: special.2009.07.06