27 August 2010 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at a yearly conference held by the central bank This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States central bank is prepared to take further...

20 August 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mideast envoy George Mitchell speak to reporters at the State Department about the relaunching of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks. This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American officials a...

13 August 2010 Villagers flee their homes in central Pakistan on Wednesday because of flooding This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Much of Pakistan faces more storms in the coming days. Heavy rains have already caused more than two weeks of r...

06 August 2010 A member of the new Iraqi parliament speaks on the phone in June This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Iraqis elected a new parliament in March. There was no clear winner. And five months later there is still no agreement on a co...

中国说已超过日本成为世界第二大经济体 China Says it Surpassed Japan as No. 2 Economy 一位中国高级官员说，中国已超越日本，成为世界第二大经济体。 中国国家外汇管理局局长易纲星期五在接受《中...

巴基斯坦官员说，雨季大雨造成的洪水已在过去3天里夺走至少300人的生命。 当局说，大多数死亡事件发生在西北部的开伯尔.普什图省的科希斯坦地区。当地政府官员已经宣布进入紧急状态。...

30 July 2010 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, the website WikiLeaks published more than seventy-five thousand American military documents on the war in Afghanistan. These documents from the Army and Marine Corps included secret...

]热带风暴邦尼迫使漏油清理工作暂停 Tropical Storm Bonnie Puts Gulf Oil Spill Efforts on Hold 永久性封闭墨西哥湾英国石油公司受损油井的工作，由于热带风暴邦尼逼近迫使工人撤离该地区而受阻。 美国...

北韩威胁对美韩军演做出实质性回应 North Korea Threatens Physical Response to Maneuvers 北韩威胁将对美国和韩国预定周日在日本海展开的联合军事演习做出实质性回应。 北韩星期五做出的这个愤怒回应...

23 July 2010 Kosovars celebrate the finding by the United Nations' highest court that their declaration of independence from Serbia did not break international law This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In February of two thousand eight, Kosovo...