音频下载 Before today , gay and lesbian couples could legally marry in 36 states and Washington , DC . Now , the U.S. Supreme Court has extended that right across the country . The ruling means the remaining 14 states must soon stop enforcing ban...

音频下载 A Cambodian girl prepares bricks to dry under the sun light at a brick factory in Chheuteal village, Kandal province, some 27 kilometers (17 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, May 2, 2011. Earlier this year , a United Nations...

音频下载 Hungarian officials have announced a plan to build a fence on the border with Serbia to try to stop people from illegally entering the country . Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants have already entered Hungary , most of them from...

音频下载 Rice plants grow from the cracked and dry earth in Ryongchon-ri, North Korea, in the country's Hwangju County, June 22, 2012. North Korea could face more food shortages later this year if a drought continues . That is what the United Nat...

音频下载 Each day , thousands of people with mental illness are living on the streets of cities and towns across America . The U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development says one-fifth of the 610,000 homeless across the country suffer from a...

音频下载 Violence has damaged relations between India and Pakistan ever since the two countries gained their independence from Britain almost 70 years ago . This history of conflict follows many Indians and Pakistanis when they come to the United...

音频下载 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi performs yoga with a crowd of thousands in New Delhi, India, June 21. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) The world held its first International Day of Yoga on Sunday . Yoga events took place in almost 200 countrie...

音频下载 After a deadly shooting at a church in South Carolina last week , U.S. politicians are again debating how to deal with gun laws and gun violence . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 11,000 people died...

音频下载 Construction of the expansion, called the new canal was originally expected to take three years. But last year Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi announced the project would finish in a year. Picture taken June 13. 2015. (Heather M...

音频下载 Social media are changing the ways that U.S. police departments and other government agencies operate . New media are closely watching movements by police officers , and keeping cars and trucks moving on congested roads . But some are al...