音频下载 A new report says the number of people over the age of 60 is expected to double by the year 2050. The World Health Organization says society worldwide will experience major changes, with 20 percent of the population older than 60. The re...

音频下载 Islamist protesters demand public execution of the country's atheist bloggers, whom they accuse of humiliating and ridiculing Islam, the Koran and Prophet Mohammad, in Chittagong, Bangladesh,in March 2013. Bloggers in Bangladesh and Viet...

音频下载 Vendor Carmen Diaz, 84, is pulled by a market porter as she makes her way home at the end of her work day in the Oriental Market in Managua, Nicaragua, April 30, 2015. More than half of all people 65 years and older have no long-term hea...

音频下载 People ride motorbikes in Hanoi. Urban planners hope a new subways system will reduce congestion, improve safety and cut pollution. Vietnam is developing quickly with skyscrapers and supermarkets. But the country still lacks one kind of...

音频下载 Gliders are light aircraft that fly with no engine . They are pulled by a powered plane into the sky and set free to fly on air currents . They soar on wind currents called mountain waves . That is why their wings are longer than ordinar...

音频下载 Martin Shkreli is being called the Most Hated Man in America by some in the U.S. media. He raised prices on a life-saving drug by 4000% almost overnight. (FILE PHOTO) The CEO of a drug , or pharmaceutical , company raised the price of a...

音频下载 Use of the plant marijuana remains illegal under U.S. federal law , but it has been legalized for medical or personal use in 23 U.S. states and Washington , D.C. This has attracted investors and created a boom for many businesses . Last...

音频下载 Teachers attend hearing in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 28, 2015 (Photo: J. Craig / VOA) A court in Kenya ruled Friday that the country 's public school teachers must return to the classroom this week . A Supreme Court ruling on August 24 said...

音频下载 Pope Francis says people should have the right to refuse tasks they oppose on moral grounds . The Pope s comments were thought to support a court worker in the United States . This woman refused to sign marriage licenses for homosexual ,...

音频下载 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks about his tax plan during a news conference, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump would cut taxes for the poor and ri...