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US Holiday Shopping Season off to Good Start Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Early indications show the holiday shopping season in the United States is off to a promising start.  The National Retail Federation says the numbe...

Ford Leads Turnaround for US Auto Industry Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The Ford Motor Company says its net income rose nearly 70 percent in the third quarter, its best performance in nearly a decade. The US automaker ...

Mining Gold in Your Jewelry Box Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 With the price of gold at an all time high, many people are looking in their jewelry boxes to capitalize.   Selling those precious bracelets, neck...

Obama Aims to Expand, Strengthen Relationships on 10-Day Asia Trip Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 President Barack Obama sets off this week (November 5) on a 10 day trip through Asia, starting in India, followed by Indonesia, South Korea and Ja...

G20, APEC Summits Will Turn World Focus to Asia This Month Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The U.S. and Chinese presidents will be among the leaders at two high-profile economic summits in Asia in November. South Korea hosts the Group of ...

General Motors Goes Public Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 General Motors is back from the brink after issuing more than 400 million shares Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange.  GM’s initial public offe...

EU Seeks to Contain Ireland Debt Crisis Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Financial experts from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are meeting in the Irish capital of Dublin to examine that country’s ...

Russia Opens to Foreign Investors after Economic Fall Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Russia is opening to foreign investors again, courting such people as California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger and working to join the World Trade...

Zimbabwe Pins Hopes on Mining Sector to Revive Economy Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Zimbabwe’s power sharing government is trying to revive an economy crippled by low productivity, high unemployment and a lack of foreign investmen...

New York Burger Company Hopes to Succeed at 'Cursed Corner' Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 New York City has every kind of restaurant imaginable, from Albanian to Zambian.  A French family of restaurateurs of Romanian and Vietna...

Bernanke Defends Fed Bond-Buying Policy Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke issued a warning about China’s currency policies while defending a U.S. bond-purchasing plan that some leader...

Holiday Shopping Rush Begins in US Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 Shoppers turned out in large numbers on Friday, looking for bargains as the traditional holiday shopping season kicked off in the United States. F...

US Unemployment at 9.8% as Hiring Slowed in November Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The U.S. unemployment rate rose to a seven month high in November as employers added fewer than 40,000 jobs to their payrolls. That’s a sharp decli...

A Number of Firsts Highlighted 2010 Year in Sports Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 29, 2010 The 2010 year in sports was an exciting one marked by a number of firsts.  Among them, Spain won its first World Cup football championshi...

Zimbabwe Pins Hopes on Mining Sector to Revive Economy Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 28, 2010 Zimbabwe’s power sharing government is trying to revive an economy crippled by low productivity, high unemployment and a lack of foreign investmen...

Some American Atheists Celebrate Their Own Holiday Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 28, 2010 All over the United States, people are celebrating Christmas. People of other faiths also have their holidays. But a minority of Americans who do ...

2010 US Retail Sales Could Top $450 Billion Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 28, 2010 A winter snowstorm in parts of the United States appears to have put a damper on after-Christmas shopping, but preliminary reports suggest retaile...

Depicting Nature, Both Real and Imagined Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 27, 2010 Environmental issues are a popular subject for contemporary artists. But one of the first to address such subjects as biodiversity and global warmi...

US Winter Weather Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 27, 2010 Heavy snow and strong winds slammed the northeastern United States Sunday, disrupting air, rail and road traffic as Christmas holiday travelers at...

Outlook 2011 Examines How Technology, Environment and Economy Shape The World Channel: voa Length: 0 Date: December 27, 2010 2010 has been filled with extreme weather, an economic crisis and breakthroughs in medical technology. What do all these events mean for the futur...

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