Our idea was to explore the Rocky Mountains and west coast, perhaps go north into Canada and end up at North Western University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Way up north, Alaska is called the Last Frontier for understandable reasons.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

The surge came from a sudden release by a hydropower dam further up the river in the North's territory.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

In recent years Britain has turned up the rhetoric, putting Iran alongside the likes of North Korea as a potential nuclear enemy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Saturday afternoon, just north of the protest area, the Thai army spread razor wire and set up checkpoints.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

"Get real about the danger we face if we have North Korea, Iran and other countries with nuclear weapons and we give up our own."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

"Get real about the danger that we face if we have North Korea, Iran,and other countries with nuclear weapons and we give up our own."

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

Under questioning, spokesman Wood said the ensuing North Korean retaliation was not a failure of U.S.diplomacy, but a failure by Pyongyang to live up to its international obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

As Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a Southern separatist movement, and tries to wrap up a six-year old war in the north, Western governments warn their citizens to stay out of the country, scaring off tourists and investors.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

The bear he says brings that message home. "It gives people an opportunity to connect with literally the processes that are going on up on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole which is melting,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13