After all, the most Mr Yeltsin has been prepared to do is warn the West of the dangers of a third world war.

ECONOMIST: No end in sight

The ASA and IAAF have been pointing fingers at each other, while South Africa's sports minister Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile threatened a "third world war" should the IAAF ban Semenya from competing.

BBC: SA chief issues Semenya apology

So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.

WHITEHOUSE: The Commander in Chief Trophy

Intraregional trade in Asia climbed from a fifth of the region's total trade after the second world war to a third in the 1980s to over half today.

ECONOMIST: Regional economic integration has a long, long way to go

Despite farmers' loud political voice, barely 4% of the French workforce works on the land today, compared with a third at the end of the second world war.

ECONOMIST: Many French farmers still struggle to survive

But the third time was the charm for those in emerging markets to finally run a post-World War II institution in modern times.

CNN: WTO: Emerging markets get the nod

Chen Nagar New York Why does the Western media wait till there is a crisis -- famine, war or disaster -- before they cover issues related to Third World countries like Sudan?

BBC: Sudan - should we do more?

Yet by the end of the next world war, America, the only country to emerge unambiguously strengthened, had entered a third imperial phase.

ECONOMIST: America and empire