Last month, gunmen kidnapped a retired army general in Cancun, a beach city popular with American college students on spring break.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Retired Admiral Dennis Blair resigned last month after a series of conflicts with the White House.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Faisal Shahzad's father is a retired air vice marshal in the Pakistani military.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

His teammate,Jack Faust, a retired Air Force major, is a disc golf legend.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

But Jim Cavanaugh,a bomb expert who just retired after 33 years in the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, says either the training was not very good or Shahzad was a poor student.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

At the Chicago White Sox U.S.Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side, the 30-year-old pitcher retired all 27 batters from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays without allowing anyone to reach first base, pitching a perfect game and putting his name in a record book occupied by only 17 others in Major League history.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

Ben and Jerry's even has a small graveyard with markers for flavors that have been retired.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

In the front row is a man with glasses who looks old enough to be retired.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

This is Brook Levin, a retired teacher who ordered the dessert at Buddakan in Philadelphia.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Will Acevedo,or Ace, is a retired United States Army veteran from Fayetteville, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

She is a retired California state employee who lives in Sacramento, the state capital.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Retired Special English writer Paul Thompson once saw a crystal bracelet in a store.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Stephen Herrero is a retired professor at the University of Calgary in Canada.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

Francis Welch is a retired dentist, former smoker and now a COPD patient.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Govindappa Venkataswamy, a retired eye surgeon, established the organization in nineteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Harrison was a retired general and a member of the Whig Party.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

Both are retired, but Knight is considering a return to coaching.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

He retired to the countryside a wealthy man.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

When he retired from the Navy in 1975, he accepted a position at the University of Southern California.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Meet Dr.Francis Welch, a retired dentist and now a patient diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Retired Brigadier General Mehmood Shah served as a senior official in North West Frontier Province.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

The Obama administration in February named retired senior diplomat Stephen Bosworth as a special envoy for North Korea, with the aim of reviving the nuclear talks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

That is Professor Andrew Bacevich a retired U.S.Army colonel who teaches at Boston University.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Retired four-star general Eric Shinseki, a Japanese-American, now heads the Department of Veterans Affairs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

He retired more than a decade ago to become a Buddhist monk but the Japanese government brought him out of retirement to bring JAL out of bankruptcy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Dr.John Dove is a retired spinal surgeon and a Bolivar scholar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Retired Indian army Major General Dipankar Banerjee, dismisses worries of a potential coup and Indian re-intervention, but says Fonseka may desire to use the latter possibility for political currency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

A veteran Indian army intelligence officer, retired Colonel Ramani Hariharan, in Chennai tells VOA News there has been anxiety in India about what he calls Sri Lanka's "unwieldy" military.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14