• The number of indoor pools varied by a factor of 20 between Eastern and Western Europe, ranging from one pool for every 50, 000 people in Western Europe to one for every 300, 000 people in Eastern Europe.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Swimming pool use link to asthma

  • Bruce Carver, who co-ordinates many services for old people in western Kentucky's Pennyrile region, says that one popular part of the new programme has been respite care.

    ECONOMIST: Grandparents raising grandchildren

  • "One Western Wall for one Jewish people, " said Mr Sharansky, expressing hope that the site "will once again be a symbol of unity among the Jewish people and not one of discord and strife".

    BBC: Women held for breaching ban at Jerusalem Western Wall

  • Ray Howard Jones's An Eye For The People located on the Western Mail building in Cardiff, has recently been destroyed.

    BBC: Are we allowing great works of art to disintegrate?

  • For these people, the retreat of Western power--from Asia, from Africa, from South America -- was the natural way of the world.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Courage'

  • "This brings us one step closer to achieving our goal of providing the highest quality healthcare from 21st Century facilities for people living in Sandwell and western Birmingham, " a statement said.

    BBC: City Hospital in Birmingham

  • Most of the companies were from the automotive trade, but others included First Great Western railways and a company recruiting for people to be foster parents.

    BBC: Jobs fair held for Honda workers in Swindon

  • It may, such critics suggested, be well suited to Japan's participative workforce, but in more individualistic western societies it became a formalised hunt for people to blame for the problems that it identified.

    ECONOMIST: Idea

  • In contrast, for western Europe, the supply of well-educated people from the east may now sputter as the immediate neighbours become the sort of middle-income and relatively elderly countries that need to import workers, not export them.

    ECONOMIST: Migration

  • In 2009 the number of people of working age in western Germany shrank for the first time.

    ECONOMIST: How Germany weathered the recession

  • Macedonian authorities blame Western nations for allowing more than a quarter of a million people to flood the nation.

    CNN: Annan defends U.N. refugee aid, says agency 'overwhelmed'

  • "Some of the impact that the western banks or the Western people are experiencing we've been experiencing for decades, " Maathai said.

    CNN: Lesson for Africa from global economic crisis

  • For the moment most of the professionally sceptical - people like Western intelligence agencies or militaries - are taking the rise of North African political Islam in good faith.

    BBC: What the rise of political Islam is likely to spell

  • Making the environment even tougher, Chinese companies with global ambitions increasingly are looking for the same kind of people as those sought by major Western companies trying to expand in China.

    WSJ: In China, Recruiting Gets Social

  • Bus company Western Greyhound said it feared it would be "disastrous for the people of Cornwall".

    BBC: Cornwall Council holds bus service crisis meeting

  • Businessmen, politicians and ordinary people across the poor world often blame western moneymen for their ills.

    ECONOMIST: The face of Mammon

  • The former Western Isles MSP said he understood five people were interviewed for the post.

    BBC: Row over Gaelic service chairman

  • She was one of 269 people badly injured when a First Great Western express heading for London's Paddington station collided with a Thames Train service on 5 October 1999.

    BBC: Paddington survivor removes mask

  • Voters were asked to select a new head of government for north-western Taoyuan county, a heavily industrialized area of 1.2m people that also contains the island's main international airport.

    ECONOMIST: Taiwan

  • Yet campaigners warn that the focus on advances towards gay marriage in Western nations risks distracting attention from more urgent efforts to secure basic human rights for gay people in many regions of the world where homosexuality is still illegal and homophobia is deeply entrenched.

    CNN: Opinion: Why the fuss about gay marriage?

  • Some people come to IKEA to experience the Western style of living, or simply for recreation, as if it were a theme park.

    FORBES: Why Home Depot Struggles and IKEA Thrives in China?

  • Iomart, an Internet service provider in Stornoway in the Western Isles, employs 100 people doing such things as designing web pages on contract for Virgin.

    ECONOMIST: Highlands

  • On Wednesday, Fire Service Western Area Commander Eoin Doyle said the priority was finding the two people "not yet accounted for".

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • New construction is going on in the north and western part of Zurich and high property prices in the rest of city mean people look there for value.

    BBC: Living in: Zurich

  • Pepper: And as you raise the standard of living for people, and expose a greater percentage of the population to, what we would call, Western standards of living, those folks are going to want the same thing as everybody else has.

    FORBES: Intelligent Investing Briefing Book

  • For the time being, that means getting more people into the building's lobby at the corner of Western and Adams.

    NPR: Artist William Pajaud's Jazzy New Orleans, Part 2

  • Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- A gold mine in the western Sudanese state of Darfur collapsed this week, killing scores of people and leaving many still unaccounted for, an official says.

    CNN: Dozens dead in Sudan mine collapse

  • In western Germany alone since 1945, some 106, 000 people have been investigated and 6, 500 convicted for Nazi crimes.

    ECONOMIST: Nazi war crimes

  • "The idea that anyone is responsible for the refugee crisis other than al Qaeda and the Taliban and the other people who have caused such tragedy in western Pakistan is ludicrous, " he said.

    CNN: Purported bin Laden tape slams U.S. role in Pakistan

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