Earlier this year,the first female pilots ever to fly American military aircraft were finally recognized for their service.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

An international news service reported that a private health insurer in Australia announced it was "back in the black with its first profit in three years."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

It was America's first such hospital medical service to identify itself this way.

VOA: special.2011.07.19

"One of the great traditions that I really appreciate here at First Congregational is that we do an annual service of 'Nine Lessons and Carols,' which is in the old King's College tradition from England.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

(Choral Music) At London's Westminster Abbey, the Queen,Prime Minister and military leaders attended a remembrance service, the first one without a British World War I veteran in attendance.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

The Obama administration has lifted limits on travel and remittances to Cuba by Cuban-Americans and initiated talks on reinstating direct postal service between the two countries for the first time since 1963.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

"Text4baby is the first real m-health service launched in the United States focused on pregnant women, where women can text 51141 Baby or Bebe and register for messages during pregnancy and for the first year of life,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24