音频下载 FILE - East German citizens climb the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in November 1989 as they celebrate the opening of the East German border Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall . The former East Germany...

音频下载 The documentary film 'Our Terrible Country' explores an inter-generational friendship amid kidnappings, war and exile. Syrian filmmakers have been attending film festivals in Europe . Last week , the filmmakers attended the showing of a...

音频下载 FILE - Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc addresses the Turkish Parliament in Ankara in a 2013 photo. Turkish lawmakers are expected to approve legislation soon that would affect property rights . The measure would permit police...

音频下载 The value of property in Myanmar has been rising in recent months . At the same time , there are more and more reports of property owners losing control of their land . They say they are being illegally forced off their land . When that...

音频下载 What do you want to be when you grow up ? This is a question adults commonly ask children . Boys and girls usually provide some very interesting answers . One child might want to be a ballet dancer and a firefighter . Another might want...

音频下载 Voters in Washington , D.C. and the northwestern state of Oregon have approved measures to make marijuana legal . The victories for lawful use of the drug were among separate initiatives on ballots throughout the country . Also Tuesday ,...

音频下载 President Barack Obama may have less power to negotiate with other countries beginning in January . That is because his political opponents will control both houses of Congress for the first time in his presidency . And, many of them dis...

音频下载 Syrian refugees, fleeing the recent fighting in Arsal, wait by trucks in the Bekaa valley, near the Lebanese border with Syria. Colder weather conditions are slowly returning to the Middle East . Reports from Lebanon say areas around the...

音频下载 Schoolchildren in Cambodia. A recent study in Cambodia found that violence against children is mainly carried out by adult family members of the victims . The study was part of a United Nations program on child violence . Researchers car...

音频下载 In this file photo, a butcher cuts a cows head at the early morning market, Thursday, June 24, 2010, in Durban, South Africa. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) In many countries , when cows are killed for meat , the heads are put in the waste . Tha...