Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country's most successful basketball programs.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

The United States had conscription during the Vietnam war era, which fueled massive antiwar protests,but today has an all-volunteer armed force.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been monitoring North Korean nuclear sites, said it had been informed that its inspectors were being expelled.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Determining Muse's true age is difficult because birth certificates are rare in Somalia,a country which has not had a functioning government for nearly two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Presidential spokesman Faratullah Babar denied that the Geo TV channel, which has been critical of President Asif Zardari and the government crackdown, had been ordered off the air Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

Uganda's President Museveni admitted that a displaced woman in Sudan, which has the largest displaced population in Africa, would get little comfort from knowing a document had been approved in faraway Kampala.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"President Zardari's troops are risking their lives courageously fighting extremists as we speak, a vital task which of course has had an impact on human beings and their local communities many of whom have been displaced as a result,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.13

So it is in fact the result of positive moves, which the Mexican government has taken to break the baneful influence that many of these cartels have had on many aspects of Mexican government and Mexican life,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26