Ghana earned a berth in this year's Under-20 World Cup final by seeing off Hungary in the semi-final round Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Hala Mustafa met with Israeli ambassador Shalom Cohen last month in her office at the semi-official and wholly-powerful al-Ahram media in Cairo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

The other Confederations Cup semi-final takes place Thursday when South Africa meets Brazil for the right to face the US in the final.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

A militia group in Ohio posted a video on the Internet of a man with an altered voice holding a semi-automatic assault rifle.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

He says a crackdown in the semi-autonomous Puntland region has meant the prisons are full of pirates.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

The semi-annual IMF economic forecast, which is due to be released next week, says that the current recession will likely be unusually long and severe.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

In recent years, there have been several attempted and successful kidnappings of western journalists in southern Somalia and in the northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The U.N.Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Juba,South Sudan,Lise Grande, says the number of internal conflicts in the semi-autonomous region has risen from last year's levels.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

She was one of Imperial Records' best-selling artists, but when sales began to wane in the late-1960s, compounded by the devastating effects of Hurricane Camille on many of the clubs in New Orleans where she worked, she announced her semi-retirement from music.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25