President Richard Nixon gave federal government workers the day off to watch the moon landing on television.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It goes from Grameen Bank, from someone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize to moneylenders who are ripping people off every day with hundred percent a month interest rates.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Three times a day,crews take off from the Coast Guard station in Clearwater to search for oil.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

He says the launches are more likely aimed at enforcing a two-day ban on ships off its East coast North Korea issued on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

A national day of mourning was held last month. Some areas devastated in the February 7 fires are still closed off by the police.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

The new schedule calls for Endeavour to lift off before dawn on Wednesday, the same day that NASA had hoped to launch a separate mission to survey the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

The second major FIFA youth football tournament of the year will kick off Saturday in Nigeria when the host Golden Eaglets play Germany on the opening day of the Under-17 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Tranquility is the last major U.S.piece of the space station, and once it is added, the space station will be about Leinbach sent off Endeavour's six-member crew Monday with good wishes for the planned 13-day mission.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08