2025-01-09 Danish-Swedish Farmdog Is American Kennel Club’s Newest Breed
The American Kennel Club, or AKC, has named another kind of dog to its registry. Say hello to the Danish-Swedish farmdog. Or maybe say “hej,” the word for hello in…
2025-01-09 Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing, Part One
Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example. But sometimes studying the English sentence from a larger perspective…
2025-01-08 Pope Francis Names First Woman to Lead Major Vatican Office
Pope Francis has named the first woman to lead a major office of the Roman Catholic Church. On Monday, he chose an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to head the…
2025-01-08 Small Businesses Say US TikTok Ban Would Hurt Them
As the date nears for a possible U.S. ban on the video sharing service TikTok, some small companies are saying such a ban would hurt their business. The U.S. Justice…
2025-01-07 Brazilian Nun Is World’s Oldest Person at 116
Sister Inah Canabarro was born in 1908. She was six years old when The First World War began in 1914. The soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to be the…
2025-01-07 Florida and the Federal Government Support Huge Projects to Clean Up the Everglades
Some experts say damage to the Everglades ecosystem began when a highway connecting the cities of Tampa and Miami in Florida was built in 1928. The Everglades are a huge…
2025-01-07 Learn New Skills with Microcredentials
In today’s workplace, what you learned in the usual college courses may not be very useful later in life. For example, in the field of information technology, workers might never…
2025-01-06 Do Weighted Blankets Have Health Benefits?
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. When her husband gave her a weighted blanket to help her sleep, Rhonda James did not think it would…
2025-01-06 Explainer: South Korea’s Constitutional Court to Consider Presidents’ Ouster
The impeachment late last month of South Korea’s acting President Han Duck-soo has deepened political division in the country. He had replaced President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached earlier…
2025-01-06 Buddhist Women in Nepal Practice Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Strength
Buddhist nuns in Nepal are once again performing martial arts for the public after a five-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The women recently put on a show for…
2025-01-05 Scientists Show Baby Mammoth Preserved for 50,000 Years in Siberia
Researchers in Russia’s Siberia area are showing the public what they say are the 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth. Melting permafrost led to the animal’s discovery. They are calling…
2025-01-05 The Sky Promises Many Big Events in 2025
The world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse. However, the sky promises plenty of other big events in 2025. The new year starts off…
2025-01-05 2024 Another Big Year for Space Exploration
As we enter the new year, we take a look back at some of the biggest space stories of 2024. Historic private moon landing Nearly one year ago, a private…