In both instances, the Met Office failed to predict the movements of the jet stream - the high-level wind that races round the world 10km above the surface.
Warren Buffett, one of the world's richest investors, says the total amount of gold in the world - the gold above ground, that is - could fit into a cube with sides of just 20m (67ft).
C. taking 1.5 million barrels out of production is peanuts with demand destruction in the world now above 2 million barrels.
The Arctic remains one of the few unexplored regions of the world and the region above Alaska and western Canada is believed to be oil rich.
Matthew's victory will return him to the top of the world rankings above Egypt's Ramy Ashour, who made a second-round exit in Al Khobar with a damaged hamstring.
More than a third of people in the Middle East now use the internet, slightly above the world average.
The developed world, or the industrialized world, is well above 0.8 HDI.
The Wallabies rugby union team is third in the world rankings - above England and France - but it has not won the Bledisloe Cup against New Zealand's mighty All Blacks for a decade.
In 2011, 28 people were killed on the road for every 100, 000 people in the country, government statistics show, above the world-wide average of around 20 deaths for every 100, 000 people.
This means that almost every country as far from the equator as Japan is near or above the world average GDP per capita, and almost every country closer to the equator than Japan is near or below the world average.
Denmark has the highest total tax pressure in the world and is towering far above the European average.
The fingers on his flesh told him that he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else the things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.
But the fickle nature of commodity trading has derailed yield-hungry ambitions across the currency world leaving a question mark above the rationale or at least the desire among central bankers to shift policy in order to address temporary price spikes.
It's the only surviving above ground remnant of the World Trade Center and yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation named it one of the 11 most endangered places in the country.
Each time we look at the medal table, we are encouraged to believe that we still have the capacity to punch above our weight in the world.
First, it has allowed the North's propaganda to distract world attention from the realities detailed above, focusing it instead on Washington's supposedly "hostile" behavior.
Being 35, 000 feet above the world can be extremely freeing.
At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.
How in the world do explain the above Tweet going out and then sending out Tweets where they were clearly trying to capitalize on something that was both horrific and very popular among social media users?
Meanwhile, in the game world, Columbia floats above it, blending old-time religion and futuristic technology, preparing to rain fire on the fallen world.
It remains defective as the treaty has yet to be amended and its central feature remains - the establishment of a supranational agency to govern three quarters of the world's surface and the oceans and airspace above them.
New York City remains home to roughly double the number of hedge-fund managers as London, but the two centres increasingly stand head and shoulders above the rest of the world.
Check out the photo gallery above for world's top 10 airport hotels.
Chinese parents who rock the Tiger Mother style still cling to the remnants of the Old World by expecting obedience above all else and stifling true creativity in favor of tried and true benchmarks of success: Perfect grades, best test scores, admission into top colleges.
The stand is the last part of the ground to be redeveloped after two new all-seater stands were built at the Worcester Street end in 2004 and the old grandstand side in 2007, the old "Tump" end was redeveloped as a terrace with executive boxes above it for the 1991 World Cup.
It was in England interests to play on, as a 5-0 whitewash in the series will take them above South Africa into second in the world rankings.
With increasing consumer demand for larger screen sizes, Samsung will also expand the number of models available in 60 inches and above, in addition to the world's largest commercial UHD TV at 110 inches.
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Once there, Sunshine has a wonderfully heady, top-of-the-world atmosphere, with more than half of the skiing above tree line.
"SLC wishes to announce that in view of a directive issued by the ICC to the effect that no games should be played at any of the World Cup venues, SLC is compelled to make the above changes, " the board said in a statement.
The young people quoted above are among the thousands of students around the world who are routinely denied their right to education because they endure discrimination and violence in school, based onactual or perceived sexual orientation, gender expression and gender identity.
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