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.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) returns to the House and gets a standing ovation. This is her first time back in the House since surviving an assassination attempt in January of 2011 to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling.

The Tokyo Summer Olympics will showcase several new sports. This video showcases: 1) Skateboarding will showcase two different disciplines in the Olympics, street and park, with 80 athletes representing 26 different countries in all. 2) Surfing at the Tokyo Olympics will take place on Tsurigasaki ...

Gilad Shalit landed at an IDF base, where he was greeted by the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and the IDF Chief of the General Staff. After meeting the officials he was finally reunited with his family, for the first time after more than five years in captivity. In a controversial decision by ...

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, emotional WWII veterans look back at the largest seaborne invasion in history. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft were sent to storm the heavily German-fortified French coastline of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The coordinated operation left a lasting global imp...

Every November a celebration known as the Vigil of the Authentic Intrepid Searchers of Danger takes place in the city of Juchitán, Oaxaca, in Mexico. In this community of Zapotec indigenous people, it's generally understood that there are men, there are women, and there are muxes (pronounced "mooshe

This is my "Change the World" project for my school environmental science class.

Personal trainer and fitness model Jack Eyers has striped naked for a great cause: to raise money for a U.K. organization helping people with disabilities. Eyers, an amputee born with a rare condition called Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency, stars in an advert for Scope, a U.K. charity that raises

This video presents an evolving vision of modern architecture where the futuristic designs focus on the environment. New towers around the world are being conceived with unique "green" features as displayed in this snapshot which include a wide range of existing and proposed projects.

Updated, optimized, improved - the next generation of the Transition(R) "Flying Car" has now been unveiled to the world. Check out the revolutionary safety, functionality and fun that the Transition(R) can bring to your personal aviation adventure!