2024-08-26 Telegram Chief Pavel Durov Arrested in France
The founder and chief executive of the Telegram messaging service, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France over the weekend. The reports said police detained Durov Saturday night at Le Bourget…
2024-08-26 Sea Lions Gather on California Beach, People Should Let Them Rest
Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, causing officials to close the area to people. Drawn to the animals, people still gather to…
2024-08-26 Experts: China’s ‘Birth-friendly’ Society at Odds with Urbanization Plans
Mary Meng, a busy worker at a Chinese technology company in Shanghai, says she cannot imagine having a second child. “The work pressure is such that you don’t even have…
2024-08-26 For Exercising, When and How Should You Stretch?
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Years ago, the traditional advice was to do some stretching before exercising. Over the years, that advice changed to…
2024-08-25 Uganda’s Motorcycle Taxis Resist Safety Rules
For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, driving a motorcycle taxi is a way to make a living. For others, the vehicles known as boda-bodas are a necessary…
2024-08-25 US Nuns Trouble Companies with Investment Activism
In the American state of Kansas, a group of religious women have been calling on large companies to change the way they do business. The women are Catholic Benedictine religious…
2024-08-25 Instrument Launched to Measure World’s Carbon, Methane
An instrument has launched from the United States to measure the world’s carbon and methane levels in an effort to help fight climate change. The instrument is attached to a…
2024-08-24 Reaching the ‘Tipping Point’
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. Today we talk about an important time in a movement or experience. It is the moment when something cannot be…
2024-08-23 Harlem Celebrates Its Rebirth after 50 Years
In the 1970s, a lack of community investment resulted in a large number of people leaving Harlem, a well-known New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan. Nearly 50,000 people, about…
2024-08-23 ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue,’ by Edgar Allen Poe, Part Two
We present the second of five parts of the short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” by Edgar Allen Poe. The story was originally adapted and recorded by VOA…
2024-08-23 Speaking Fluently
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Aaron Ali in Sudan about how to become a fluent speaker. Question Dear Teacher, I have been learning…