The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

The project covers an area of nearly one thousand five hundred kilometers in the central United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

In North America and Central America, the forest area remained about the same.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

This area is considered to extend from north-central Texas to North Dakota.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

We turned another corner around the central plaza area and the density of people is even greater over here.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

That prompted the central government to dispatch border security and police reserve forces to the area.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Meanwhile,police say at least eleven members of the Central Reserve Police Force died when their vehicle hit a landmine in an area of Chhattisgarh, where Maoists are active.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

"There's a new recognition in the global debate that while security efforts in Afghanistan are exceedingly important,critical, we can never succeed if we don't manage to build a basic state with basic governance that can provide basic security in the area between Central Asia and South Asia,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.27