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…
05:35 March 1, 2023
Governments and health agencies around the world have not yet been able to answer an important question: Where did the virus that causes COVID-19 com…
04:00 March 1, 2023
At least 36 people died and many others were hurt when two trains crashed into each other late Tuesday in northern Greece. One train was carrying peo…
06:01 February 28, 2023
The United States Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday about President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan. The court’s decision will af…
05:14 February 28, 2023
The earthquakes that destroyed large parts of southern Turkey and northwest Syria in February have affected countless children in both countries. For…
03:31 February 28, 2023
The man who made the first call from a wireless phone is now 94 years old. The year was 1973. Martin Cooper operated a large, heavy new communication…
05:07 February 28, 2023
The United States has ordered federal agencies to remove the popular video sharing service TikTok from all government devices within 30 days. The ban…
04:43 February 27, 2023
The Screen Actors Guild Awards, or SAG Awards, are known as an important predictor for the Academy Awards, or Oscars. On Sunday night in Los Angeles,…
03:11 February 27, 2023
The U.S. Copyright Office said that book images created using the artificial intelligence (AI) program Midjourney should not have been given copyrigh…
04:35 February 27, 2023
Gardeners in the Northern Hemisphere are starting to plan their summer gardens. Most are thinking about how their plants and flowers will look in the…
04:49 February 27, 2023
North Korea has held a major agriculture conference as experts warn about worsening food shortages in the country. State media reported North Korean …
04:02 February 26, 2023
The famous children’s book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, by the writer known as Dr. Seuss, will get a follow-up story, or sequel, later this year.…
03:18 February 26, 2023
A team of Russian scientists recently examined something extremely unusual: the frozen body of a brown bear that lived thousands of years ago. The co…
07:11 February 26, 2023
A new study suggests that current tools used by scientists to look for signs of life on Mars may not be effective enough to make new discoveries. A g…
06:27 February 26, 2023
The administration of President Joe Biden recently proposed changes to U.S. immigration laws for asylum seekers. The proposal comes as the U.S. prepa…