Larijani read out the vote tallies for each of the 21 Cabinet posts, indicating which ministers had won approval and which had not.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Thirteen won gold medals. Britain,which will host the Summer Olympics in London in 2012, won only one medal, a gold by Amy Williams in women's skeleton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

The information was leaked to the media early last week, shortly before Semenya was due to run in the final of the women's which she won in the fastest time of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Critics say this leaves the window open to push the Maoist party, which won 40 percent of the seats in last year's election, out of the picture - paving the way for any number of smaller parties to bid for the prime minister seat.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

"It has to be a completely different film, which risk the Indian filmmakers won't take because then they fear that the Indian audience and the traditional audiences will be lost to that kind of film, The amount of crossover audiences which view our films is so small it hardly matters."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22