"Kids in America” was the debut single for British singer Kim Wilde. Catching the mood and the imagination, this pop masterpiece defines the style and attitude of the early 1980s.

Here is some news about lunar soil, NATO membership, and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Strict water restrictions come into force for millions of people in California as the US west coast continues to experience a crippling drought.

In English, the future tense can be formed with "going to" + infinitive, though "going to" is often shortened to "gonna" in conversation. In this video, meet some people and find out about their plans.

Jimmy and Kaley Cuoco face off in a trivia game where the winner of each round gets a puppy to snuggle.

There has been a lot of attention on the second amendment and on gun safety. This is because there have been so many mass shootings in the United States, and in fact, two very big ones happened just a week apart. As Sigrid states, this is a very upsetting topic.

Even our best friends aren’t always how we’d like them to be, but what’s important is that they’re there for us when we need them. This is certainly the case in Patrick Kelley and Rea Garvey’s wonderfully catchy ode to a “Best Bad Friend."

This record from the band Culture Club made them an instant pop sensation and brought international fame, especially for their singer, Boy George, who had written this simple, catchy love song.

While the family listens to a popular radio comedy, the mood is anything but fun in the Hardy household, with tensions running high between father and son, and husband and wife. Then a letter arrives, and Mrs. Hardy sets out by bus.

In cities like New York, bike sharing has become more and more popular, and indeed, NYC has the largest bike share network in the country. What are the advantages of bike sharing?

Who will win the final round of the “pup quiz” and end up cuddling all of the adorable puppies? Jimmy Fallon and Kaley Cuoco put their animal knowledge to the test!

Top Gun returns to the big screen as Tom Cruise returns to his role as high flying fighter ace Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell more than thirty-five years after the original movie!

"Enjoy another walk through the fields with brothers Piggeldy and Frederick. This time Piggeldy wants to learn about the concept of cleaning up."

Following the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, people spoke out. One of these people was a famous actor who went to Washington to give a speech.

English reggae and pop band UB40 were at the peak of their fame in the nineteen eighties, and they continue to make music and tour. They collaborated with new reggae band KIOKO for this single, which was featured on their album Bigga Baggariddim.

Actor Tom Cruise joins talk show host Graham Norton on the couch and co-stars Miles Teller and Jennifer Connelly by video to discuss the release of Top gun: Maverick thirty years after the original movie Top Gun.

Pressure from celebrities in combination with organized peaceful protests and marches can sometimes work to effectuate change. It's always worth a try when the cause is just.

Although we use the passive tense in the present tense, it's used in other tenses, too, and that's what we look at in this lesson.

Miles Teller claims that Tom Cruise never warned him about the rigors of making a new Top Gun movie, and Jennifer Connelly admits to a secret fear she felt unable to reveal before filming began.

Mrs. Hardy finally sees Miss Thompson again, and a release of pent-up emotion reveals the true depth of their feelings for each other.

The song "Iris" by New York rock band the Goo Goo Dolls spent spending eighteen weeks at the top of the charts. The track took inspiration from the movie “City of Angels," in which an angel falls in love with a mortal woman, and is willing to give up everything to be with her.

Here you can hear lots of examples featuring the "going to" future, with sentences starting with "I'm going to" or "I'm gonna." We meet Lance, who has no plans to wash his clothes any time soon, and a businessman who runs us rapidly through his hectic schedule.

Enjoy another walk through the fields with pig brothers Piggeldy and Frederick. This time, Piggeldy wants to know what a letter is.

After Paul McCartney realized that all the great Scottish ballads he knew were composed many years ago, he decided to write his own. The resulting ballad, accompanied by authentic Scottish bagpipes and drums, became an instant classic for Paul and his band Wings. The Mull of Kintyre is on the remote southwest coast of Scotland, and is where Paul sought tranquillity after his Beatles’ fame, and where he and his wife Linda had a farm.