By the end of 2011 the world will have reached 7 billion people. The United Nations Population Fund is leading an innovative global campaign to bring awareness to the opportunities and challenges that this milestone presents.

Buildings are a big environmental headache. They account for nearly half of the world's climate changing emissions. But things may be different in the years ahead, as VOA's Rosanne Skirble discovered in a laboratory on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Breaking the Taboo is a documentary style video with Morgan Freeman and Garcia Bernal recolecting the history of the narco traffic and drugs use and new initiatives to legalize certain drugs in the US.

Noa Toledo is an Israeli social-media star who hopes to encourage other women to rise to the challenge of male-dominated jobs.

A compilation of videos that showcase sports adventure that has been called AWESOME X: Beautiful Life

⯑ ANTIPOSITIVE RUSSIAN TOUR ⯑ Fragrance that makes people fall in love and do anything that the person wearing it wants them to do. Was seen by close to 4 million people in two days since it was published.

Smoked watermelon is available at Duck's Eatery in New York City. The melon is cooked in the same way they've been smoking meat for years. It's no wonder the watermelon looks like a smoked ham!

Great fireworks in New York City Liberty Park and the Hudson and East Rivers reflecting the beautiful lighting display choreographed brilliantly by Usher. The City of New York is proud to share with the rest of the world the joy of Equality and Justice for All.

Enjoy the spectacular fire works in London during the countdown to 2016.

Hurricane Irma made landfall as a category 4 storm on Sunday. As the storm moved inland, it wreaked havoc, leaving millions without power.