05:16 March 14, 2023
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed support for creating new territories for the country’s Indigenous communities. Lula spoke…
03:08 March 14, 2023
Pakistan’s second-largest city, Lahore, has been named the city with the most polluted air in the world in 2022. IQAir, a Swiss company that makes ai…
08:04 March 13, 2023
The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico brought attention to a common practice for many people in the United States: medical tourism. Medic…
04:25 March 13, 2023
Competitors in this year’s Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska are dealing with another struggle along the trail – unusually high temperatures. Jason Mac…
04:26 March 13, 2023
President Joe Biden told Americans Monday that the nation’s financial system is safe. Biden made the comments after the collapse of two large banks w…
04:46 March 13, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once won the best picture Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. The unusual movi…
06:10 March 12, 2023
Anyone who has learned a foreign language knows how uncomfortable the experience can be. But learning a new language is also enjoyable, meaningful an…
06:12 March 12, 2023
More than 35 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the dogs of Chernobyl, Ukraine, live among empty buildings in and around the closed nucl…
06:40 March 12, 2023
Several new studies confirm the success of a test by the American space agency NASA to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The studies suggest the e…
06:31 March 12, 2023
Food prices around the world increased when Russia invaded Ukraine last year partly because Ukraine is a big grain exporter. Ukrainian farmers left t…
06:50 March 11, 2023
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Up and down. High and low. These short words describe more than just directions. They al…
08:49 March 11, 2023
When students think about college classes in the United States, they often think about the ones that will result in a degree. A science student might…
04:29 March 11, 2023
Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding. The evidence comes from 5,000-year-old human skeletons in central Europe. T…
10:25 March 10, 2023
And now an American Children’s Story from VOA Learning English. Today’s story probably had its start long before it was published in Europe long ago.…
06:16 March 10, 2023
At Sunday’s Academy Awards, or Oscars, in Los Angeles, Angela Bassett will be one of the few Black actors considered for a major award. Bassett is no…
04:30 March 10, 2023
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about syllable dropping in American English pronunciation. Question: Hi, VOA Learning En…
04:31 March 10, 2023
A surprise rule by China requires Chinese college students overseas to learn in-person if they want their education to recognized back home. The rule…
07:27 March 9, 2023
Last week, we looked at two kinds of poems, the cinquain and the diamante or diamond poem. We explored parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and …
03:13 March 9, 2023
Georgiana Viou is self-taught chef, or cook, from the west African country of Benin. She moved to France in hopes of becoming a translator. Instead, …
04:45 March 9, 2023
More American businesses are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to come up with new ideas and to deal with customers. Mattel is known…
04:39 March 9, 2023
At least six people died early Thursday as Russia launched a wave of missiles into Ukraine. It was the first large missile attack by Russia since the…
04:49 March 8, 2023
A new study has found that a dinosaur’s size was not necessarily linked to how quickly it grew. The research results come from studying a group of di…
06:04 March 8, 2023
Egypt is in an economic crisis made more severe by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conflict, now in its second year, has increased food and energy …
04:12 March 8, 2023
The war in Tigray is over, but the trauma remains. Tsega Fitsum is a volunteer teacher at the Mai Weyni school in the Tigray capital, Mekelle. She sa…
03:56 March 8, 2023
An island group belonging to Taiwan has been without internet for the past month. Taiwanese officials blame two Chinese ships for cutting cables that…
06:07 March 7, 2023
It is widely known that students’ test scores decreased across the United States because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But many parents do not know that …
03:03 March 7, 2023
Japan’s space agency had to destroy a rocket after a launch Tuesday because its second stage engine failed to start. The 60-meter-tall rocket is call…
04:48 March 7, 2023
Colombia is proposing to send at least 70 hippopotamuses to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control the hippo population. The hippos live near …
03:44 March 7, 2023
Countries around the world are celebrating International Women's Day (IWD) on Wednesday, March 8. The United Nations says the theme it is celebrating…
06:18 March 6, 2023
South Korea announced a new plan Monday to pay Koreans who performed forced labor for Japan during World War II. The plan does not require Japanese c…
05:00 March 6, 2023
Plant lovers often look at lists of plants or seeds for sale in the winter to plan their gardens for the coming year. Those lists usually have two na…
05:45 March 6, 2023
A growing number of people are using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program, to create books for sale. Although sales have so far been slow, hum…
05:21 March 6, 2023
The recent 7.8 earthquake magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria caused major physical destruction and loss of life in both countries. Hea…
05:34 March 5, 2023
European space officials have called for establishing a separate time zone on the moon. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the idea was discussed a…
05:21 March 5, 2023
Penn Station Shoe Repair and Shoe Shine is a small shoeshining business in New York City. On a recent weekday, customers sat down at the shoeshine bu…
03:06 March 5, 2023
Virgin Galactic has completed improvements to its VSS Unity spaceplane. The company plans to restart a passenger flight program this year, the compan…
05:15 March 5, 2023
In 1971, an anti-pollution public service announcement showing a man crying a single tear at the sight of polluted land got a lot of attention in Ame…
06:09 March 4, 2023
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. For today’s program, we invite you to share a meal with us – well, expressions about a m…
09:09 March 4, 2023
Each year, thousands of legal professionals from around the world come to the United States for advanced legal training. They often choose to attend …
06:00 March 4, 2023
An international research project has found the remains of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant in southern Iraq. The discovery, announ…
12:56 March 3, 2023
We present the fourth of four parts of the short story "The Blue Hotel," by Stephen Crane. The story was originally adapted by the U.S. Department of…
06:53 March 3, 2023
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we will answer a question about reading skills like finding definitions and transitions. Question: Greetings from …
04:54 March 3, 2023
Iran's president recently ordered an investigation into a series of sicknesses from poisonous air at a number of girls' schools in the country. Some …
03:00 March 3, 2023
Germany’s transport minister says his country cannot support a planned European Union ban on new cars with combustion engines until the proposal is c…
07:40 March 2, 2023
Have you ever written a poem in English? Some of you have written to us in recent weeks asking us about writing and sharing poems. When I was a teach…
04:18 March 2, 2023
An international group based in Paris says the world produced a record amount of carbon dioxide last year. The International Energy Agency (IEA) said…
03:07 March 2, 2023
Vietnam's National Assembly on Thursday elected Vo Van Thuong as the country’s new president. The country is changing its top leadership as it contin…
07:01 March 2, 2023
A new tool called Take It Down promises to remove explicit pictures that young people have put on the internet before they were 18 years old. The Nat…
04:39 March 1, 2023
An Italian project on the social media service Instagram is aiming to bring attention to women who do not look like usual fashion models. Carlotta Gi…
05:57 March 1, 2023
TikTok has added new tools designed to give parents more control over their children's use of the popular video sharing app. The new tools were annou…