• Coming from smaller countries, many big European and Asian firms were born global.

    ECONOMIST: The revolutionary spirit

  • In the end, Brady was an accounting trick that gave breathing space and it was possible because of the political and economic strength of the USA in the economy of 1989 (and the non-controversiality of accounting tricks in that just-born global finance system).

    BBC: The state of play in Athens

  • My own polling led me to describe those born since 1979 as the First Global generation.

    FORBES: Election Unlikely to Change Policy or Politics

  • According to FIFA, soccer's global administrator, Sabbagh born in 1979 had been an international match official since 2008.

    WSJ: Singapore Investigates Officials in AFC Match

  • "It would not be stretching a point to suggest that the Global Village...was essentially born with the worldwide apprehension of, and fascination with, the events in Java that began in the summer of 1883, " he writes (italics in original).

    FORBES: Don't Go Near The Volcano

  • The horrifying statistics demonstrate the need for a greater global commitment to saving millions of new-born lives lost unnecessarily.

    BBC: Baby deaths 'could be halved'

  • It has more international students on its books than any other American university, and, after the recent launch of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, one particularly notable foreign-born professor.

    ECONOMIST: As public universities struggle, some private ones thrive

  • But several people familiar with his thinking suggest that Soros who was born in Hungary, and who has made his fortune in global investments is currently preoccupied with other issues, such as the fate of the European Union, and is not inclined to take an outsized role in the 2012 Presidential campaign.

    NEWYORKER: Schmooze or Lose

  • It was 1993 and China was bidding for the 2000 Olympics. with the country brimming with confidence, a Chinese-born Harvard mathematician figured this was the time to ask China to host another global event held every four years.

    FORBES: Plugging a Math Gap

  • Mr Dale, who was born in York but lived for many years in Dumfries, spent 30 years working in global trouble spots.

    BBC: Pakistan death worker Khalil Dale on award shortlist

  • Similar to the recent difficulty of identifying the seven billionth human born on earth (that prize went to Danica May Camacho, a girl born in the Philippine capital of Manila, symbolically chosen by the UN to mark the global population milestone), it is understandable if Apple used location as an important factor in calculating their tiebreaks.

    FORBES: Winner of 25 Billionth Apple App Store Download was a Chinese Consumer, Coincidence?

  • "Going truly global gives you a huge advantage, but it is difficult to implement, " says the Brazilian-born, Lebanese-raised, French-educated Ghosn.

    FORBES: Gambatte!

  • Over 40% of the foreign-born adults in the United States have at least some college education, thereby making that country the epicenter of the global talent drain.

    FORBES: Brains Abroad

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