The desert sun beats down from a cloudless sky as Las Vegas landscaper Mat Baroudi roars across Lake Mead in his motorboat. It’s hot. The lake is the perfect place to be on a scorching Nevada morning.

On May 13, 1787 General George Washington arrived in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Washington was the most famous man in the United States. He had been the commander in chief of the army ...

Welcome to the South China Sea, the geographic commons of Southeast Asia’s navigable rimland. Its 3.5 million square kilometers of underlying bedrock contain oil and natural gas deposits that, by ...

BOMANDORO, Central African Republic — For the past two years, Guillaume Benam has spent most of his days doing back-breaking labor, hunting for the riches that so many of his countrymen have fought ...

Dams have long been used to produce power and water for agriculture, but they can devastate river ecosystems. In a major victory for environmentalists and Native American communities, four aging ...

Các cuộc tấn công khủng bố ngày 11/9 vào New York không chỉ phá hủy Tháp Đôi là điểm nhấn trong Trung tâm Thương mại Thế giới (WTC) của thành phố. Tổng cộng 10 tòa nhà, bao gồm tất cả 7 tòa nhà của ...

Rebecca Solomon is living a nightmare that's lasted more than three years since her daughter and the other Chibok Girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram Boko Haram distorts the Quran to justify violence.

The first protests against Assad quickly spread across the country, and are met by security forces with a wave of arrests and shootings. Some protesters take up guns, and military units defect as the ...

One year after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, VOA brings special coverage of how the group is now running the country, and how the lives of Afghans, both those ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen told an American filmmaker he is a patriot who resists any foreign influences, despite allegations to the contrary from Cambodia’s opposition and analysts. Phnom Penh, Cambodia ...

An unprecedented series of events in the past week have changed the course of Zimbabwe’s history. Longtime leader Robert Mugabe, a freedom fighter turned president-for-life, has ceded power at 93.

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND --More than a century ago, long before American lawmakers and political pundits called for a ban on Syrian refugees, the first wave of Arab immigrants to the United States was ...