The twenty-nine-year-old performer became very popular after her album "Begin to Hope" was released in two thousand six.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

After one year, the risk of heart disease for a non-smoker is half that of a smoker.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He was attacked during the riots. The rioting began last Saturday after a peaceful demonstration over the deadly police shooting of a twenty-nine-year-old man.

VOA: special.2011.08.13

That decision came on November thirteenth, nineteen fifty-six, almost a year after Missus Parks's arrest.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Students must re-apply after a year if they want to continue an off-campus job.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

That was in nineteen forty-nine, a year after John Lomax died.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Armstrong finished third last Sunday after a three-and-a-half year retirement.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The 32-year-old rapper, who swiftly dropped from sight after his MTV incident in September, is a 12-time Grammy Award winner.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The former prime minster is wanted in Thailand after fleeing a year ago to avoid a two-year jail sentence for corruption.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

All sides are expressing cautious optimism that after more than a year and a-half, the peace process may start moving again.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

President Barack Obama announced a three-year tariff of 35 percent on Chinese-made tires last week, days after the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Since the 49-year-old suffered catastrophic injuries after separate accidents, he has constantly asked for one thing: the right to die in peace.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

This summit will also see France re-joining the alliance's integrated command after a more than 40 year hiatus.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Ahlu-Sunna Wal-Jamaa took up arms against al-Shabab more than a year ago, after al-Shabab militants desecrated the graves of revered Sufi clerics.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

She returned to Mexico after her father died and was arrested twice trying to return with 19-year-old daughter.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

That could explain why many gun advocates keep alert year-after-year, analyzing the next administration.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

This year he played a critical role in condemning the government after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a subsequent crackdown on opposition supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

But the U.S.Preventive Services Task Force advised women in their 40s to delay their first mammogram until age 50,and after 50, schedule the x-ray every other year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The 39-year-old Hariri came to power after parliamentary elections in June.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Once he follows through on constitutional changes approved by the referendum, he will be allowed to run for another three-year term and run again after that if he likes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

The situation is in stark contrast to 2008, when elections were held after a peace deal ended a 10-year violent insurgency and drew Maoist rebels into the political mainstream.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Nearby,Marina Pirozhnivona, recounted how her 86-year-old aunt died last Saturday after experiencing breathing problems on a day when wood smoke pushed city carbon monoxide to almost seven times safe levels.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

President Robert Mugabe swore himself into office for a new five-year term in June after then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the run-off election because of violence against his supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The President took a personal interest in restructuring Chrysler and General Motors, following two of the largest bankruptcies in U.S.history - less than a year after he had proposed billions of dollars in government loans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"It is going to be a big anti-incumbent year, and a big anti-Washington year, and what is still left a little bit up in the air after last night is how much that anti-incumbent wave, how disproportionately that anti-incumbent wave, will wash over the Democrats."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19