Israel's largest city is bordered on all sides by danger, but its residents now seem more focused on its beaches, bars, and booming high-tech industry. Bob Simon reports.
Ryan Seacrest hosts the primetime festivities and leads the traditional countdown to midnight from Times Square in New York City, which includes reporting from actress and comic Jenny McCarthy, as well as musical performances.
Black ink animation of the skeleton dance in honor of "Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead) in Mexico and many othe rplaces around the world on November 2nd.
Enjoy the talent of this little Chihuahua that knows how to move his cute rear end while he follow all the dance steps with style and a dramatic artisitic feeling.
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.
