What happened in New York a week ago has added to calls for new laws to deny gun and explosive purchases to suspected terrorists.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The former Air Force pilot had his 58th birthday a week ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The first debate between Britain's three main party leaders, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labor Party, Conservative David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg took place a week ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

The 78 Sri Lankans were plucked from the sea by an Australian navy vessel more than a week ago, as they were attempting the journey from Indonesia's Sumatra Island to Australia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

At the strong urging of the Pakistani military, Foreign Minister Qureshi was sent back to Washington, where he had been only a week ago, to raise concerns over the bill's language with Congress and the administration.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

The Israeli government angered and embarrassed the Obama administration a week ago when it announced, as Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel, that it will build 1,600 new Jewish housing units in mainly-Arab East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

I think its a major blow to the nations medical fraternity. It takes six years to produce a doctor, and within a fraction of a second, all that has disappeared. A week ago,Dr.Laroche was in Somalia and met with the minister of health.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"There is a recognition on the part of the international community that the agreement that was reached in Tehran a week ago between Iran and Brazil and Turkey only occurred because the Security Council was on the brink of publicly releasing the text of the resolution that we have been negotiating for many weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Twenty years ago this week, President George H.W.Bush signed a civil rights law that Americans call the ADA.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

We talked last week about how this idea developed a long time ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

Rocket attacks have been rare since Israel's massive three-week assault on Gaza a year and a half ago.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Carole White and Mia Farrow, who each have their own account of that evening 13 years ago, are due to appear in court next week.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

"I was just in Sri Lanka last week and in Indonesia about a month ago talking to people who had lost family members and the loss,the sorrow, the irreplaceable loved one is still felt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26