By Robert Raffaele
Washington, D.C.
19 June 2007
 
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America's tourism industry is expressing alarm over a sharp decrease in the number of international visito

By Scott Bobb
Durban
19 June 2007
The head of soccer's world governing body, Sepp Blatter and senior FIFA officials are in South Africa to view construction on 10 stadiums that are to host the 2010 soccer World Cup. The event is still three years away, but preparations are reaching a feverish pitch,

Record Number of Climbers Reach Top of World's Highest Mountain
.They include an 18-year-old girl and a 71-year-old man.
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Major US cancer groups have agreed on common symptoms of a deadly disease that often goes unrecognized until it is too late.
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Ovarian cancer is known as a "silent killer" because it is usually discovered too late to save a woman's life. But three cancer groups in the United