Cupcakes have been around for a long time.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Workers have been placing long lengths of containment booms around the oil as winds and waves push it toward shore.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

But members have been holding what are known as town hall meetings around the country to hear reaction.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Wildlife rescuers in Oregon say some of the birds have been seen around restaurants and cafes.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Since then, scientists around the world have been working to identify substances gathered from Comet Wild-Two.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

More than twenty million copies of her books have been sold around the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

In all around one thousand five hundred cases and thirty deaths have been confirmed.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Since ancient times, cultures around the world have been making and performing with puppets.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

The W.H.O.says since 1988, more than two billion children around the world have been immunized against polio.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Thousands of Protesters have been camped around the compound since late March, demanding the government resign.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

Attrition rates had been high, likely because police have been threatened and killed by insurgents, especially in the south around Kandahar, the Taliban heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Since Thursday night, there have been sporadic street battles around the red-shirt camp in the middle of an upscale commercial,hotel and residential district in Bangkok.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

He says he's been waiting years for it to open because it makes his life much easier to have a metro station right around the corner.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

The memos were graphic and troubling. The four documents - issued under the Bush administration - revealed details of interrogation techniques like simulated drowning that have been condemned around the world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Fourteen firefighters have been injured around the state.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01