Experts say job losses might slow later this year, but the unemployment rate could rise until the middle of next year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Her works are played by orchestras and at music festivals around the world, and this year she won a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The newly reunited band is one of the groups to perform this year at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

The president,in a brief statement at the White House Friday afternoon, restated his goal of health care reform this year.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

The research company IDC says fifty-five million smartphones were sold worldwide in the first three months of this year.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

This year,on July fourth, visitors once again will be able to climb inside the statue all the way to the top.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

At the start of this year there were two hundred thirteen thousand cases of leprosy reported in one hundred twenty-one countries.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Greece needs to borrow more than seventy billion dollars this year to finance its budget and refinance its debts.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

NACE's latest survey in March found that employers expected to hire twenty-two percent fewer graduates this year than last.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

And Jeffrey Olson says federal stimulus money this year has made it possible to fix roads and complete maintenance projects.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Sakena Yacoobi has received many awards, including this year's two hundred fifty thousand dollar Henry R.Kravis Prize in Leadership.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

On Wednesday, the Congressional Budget Office estimated the federal budget deficit this year at one trillion two hundred billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.01.09