One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

These states are inscribing by themselves, are proposing by themselves,elements they feel deem the attention of the international community.

VOA: special.2010.12.01

And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jerilyn Watson with reporting by Fid Thompson in Dakar.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Experts say the best way to prevent the diseases carried by mosquitoes is not to be bitten by one.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

He was adding to his earnings by selling short stories and by working from time to time on movies in Hollywood.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

She was also influenced by the wooded hills near her home as well as by local Native American burial hills.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake with additional reporting by Brian Padden in Bangkok.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

The group says unstable countries damaged by war and ongoing conflict continue to be those most affected by corruption.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

It can process images taken by a camera into sensations that could be used by a blind person wearing it.

VOA: special.2010.10.13

And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jerilyn Watson, with reporting by Cagla Guvelioglu in New York.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

A new report by the I.M.F.estimates that the world economy will shrink by one and three-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living in extreme poverty by twenty fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

And in other economic news, a report by the Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index shrank by less than expected.

VOA: special.2009.02.06