If government policies can successfully steer growth, this should propel the two most populous countries in the world, China and India, to become the largest economies in future decades.

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Australia has adopted the most aggressively anti-tobacco regime in the world in taking this approach, but other countries are catching up in a hurry.

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Thursdays and Fridays or Fridays and Saturdays are non-working days in most of the Muslim world but some say this disrupts work with Western countries, who have Saturdays and Sundays off.

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The Washington, DC-based nonprofit Population Reference Bureau projects that, by 2050, 70 percent of the world will inhabit cities, with most of this growth occurring in underdeveloped countries whose limited resources may exacerbate an already difficult situation.

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Let me tell you something about many other countries in the world: the parents will do FAR above and beyond what most of the parents in this country would do to give their children the best start and best chance of success in life.

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The unusual relationship between this baby hippo and the ancient tortoise amazed people the world over and has featured in most countries on television and in news papers.

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