After receiving new evidence in recent days, the U.S. military is launching a higher level investigation of its air strike in Afghanistan two weeks ag...
New public opinion polls show Republican John McCain surging in the U.S. presidential race over Democrat Barack Obama. Both candidates campaigned Mond...
Russia has agreed to withdraw its troops from controversial buffer zones it had set up around Georgia's breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkha...
American and international financial markets are welcoming word that the U.S. government is taking over two troubled institutions that back roughly ha...
Amid a continuing housing crisis in the United States, the Bush administration is taking over two failing mortgage firms in an effort to limit further...
Both major-party candidates for U.S. president are stressing the need for change in Washington. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports in nationally broadcast in...
China is following its successful hosting of the Olympics with a lower-key opening ceremony for the Paralympics, an international sporting event for h...
The Turkish President Abdullah Gul arrived in the Armenian capital Yerevan, the first time a Turkish head of state has visited the country. Mr. Gul wa...
In Angola, voting has been extended for another day at some polling centers after thousands of voters were prevented from casting their ballots in Fri...
The U.S. negotiator to six-nation talks on disarming nuclear North Korea says he believes the current stalemate will be resolved before the next Ameri...
