Until the past week, the 83-year-old former leader has avoided the spotlight since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

"The four telephone surveys have reported less than one percent of the respondents had watched TV Marti over the past week.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

For the past week people gathered on the National Mall in Washington,DC to take part in Earth Day activities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Saturday's attack on the military headquarters is the third major terrorist strike in Pakistan in the past week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Heavy rains and flooding in states up river in the past week, are exerting enormous pressure downstream.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

As a result, hundreds of popular shops have been forced to close ever the past week, with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Greek newspapers have spent the past week speculating on what further hardships citizens will face,including pension cuts, salary freezes and the prospect of job cuts.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Rights groups and aid organizations were the first to report as many as 3,000 ethnic Karen villagers fled from Burma to Thailand, in the past week.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

I came here to solve them." Mr.Obama spent two days in California in the past week, taking his campaign for his budget priorities directly to the people.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

It was the third such strike in North Waziristan within the past week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"She's not lying. I think I've eaten lunch once in the past week, and we literally run from one event to another, across traffic and through crowds and crowds, but it's very important that we make a good impression so we try to get there on time, and that sometimes involves running."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

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

This week Intel reported that its results for the past three months were better than expected.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

The travel ban this past week lasted twice as long in some European countries.

VOA: special.2010.04.23