We've had our mailbox blown up. And recently, my two-year-old granddaughter's bedroom window was shot out."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

"When I was growing up - 'shoo!' - out the door in the morning and you'd play outside until the streetlights came on at night."

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down- It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

The crowd outside the courthouse watched anxiously as one by one, each with a canvas-covered bed, backed up to a courtroom door and, out of the view of onlookers, deposited handcuffed defendants for a brief appearance before a judge.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

As Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a Southern separatist movement, and tries to wrap up a six-year old war in the north, Western governments warn their citizens to stay out of the country, scaring off tourists and investors.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20