Still,Mr.Obama is focused on creating jobs, a central message on his Tuesday visit to the economically-devastated state of Michigan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

Haiti,the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been devastated in recent years by destructive and deadly hurricanes.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

The village was among those devastated by a 2006 earthquake that destroyed homes and local industry.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

He says hundreds of houses and hospitals in the devastated areas still have to be built.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

President Obama says he wants to avoid a repeat of last year's failure of several banks and other financial firms, which devastated the U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

When Nashville,Tennessee, was devastated by flooding this year, he helped people remove debris from their homes.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

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

A fungal disease called Ug99 has devastated wheat in Africa and is moving across central Asia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

She notes the Mauritanian border town of Rosso, on the banks of the Senegal River, also has been lashed by heavy rains and devastated by floods.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

"And he was devastated that all the money in the world couldn't save his son, and therefore,for his son, he was going to save other lives."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

I was so devastated when I heard that he has passed away."

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

It was the first of a series of three massive storms that devastated wide areas of the island of Luzon, where Manila is located, and claimed almost a thousand lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Glenda Reimer, her sister Sandy Wilken and Wilken's daughter Mallorie have come to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda,Maryland to help scientists better understand the disease that has devastated their family.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Al Arabiya TV reports that the government is welcoming the Houthi rebel leader's offer to negotiate to put an end to the bitter fighting which has devastated parts of Saada province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

It was a return to his roots. He began his work in the 1940s in Mexico, breeding wheat crops that were immune to another type of wheat rustthat had devastated crops there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16