The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

When this painting was first shown to the public, one critic wrote that all other works were paintings, but this one represented truth.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

This was the first law in American history to put restrictions on immigration targeting one nationality.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The painter Thomas Cole is said to be one of the first members of this group.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

This week we look at President Obama's first one hundred days in office.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

South Africa lost this first bid to Germany by one vote, but Jordaan says that only strengthened the team's resolve.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"America was the first one to mention this word, and now the others are following."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

"If it is just the first step, we can give Medvedev the benefit of the doubt, though this step is probably rather a clumsy one.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"The first time we visited this rock last fall - there were maybe one or two children out of 15 who knew how to climb up this."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25