Global figures include United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank president Jim Yong Kim and the International Monetary Fund's managing director, Christine Lagarde.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Kim, will demand concrete action from off-track countries to move children from the violation of their basic rights to the guarantee of their right to education.
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As a singer Cat Stevens had a string of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including Moon Shadow, Wild World and Morning Has Broken.
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America put a man in space, put a man in orbit, put a man on the moon, created the world's first reusable spacecraft, sent unmanned probes to other planets and led the world in making important scientific discoveries outside the Earth's atmosphere.
After all, this is the same company that enjoyed a triumph three years ago with another "site-specific" staging, performing Haydn's comic opera "Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon)" at the Hayden Planetarium.
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We need you to summon the same spirit of unbridled optimism, that bold willingness to tackle tough problems that led previous generations to meet the challenges of their time -- to power a nation from coast to coast, to touch the moon, to connect an entire world with our own science and imagination.
Obama used the life of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate what the nation has overcome in her lifetime, including the Depression, world wars, the nation's quest for civil rights, a man on the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even a world connected by technology.
He saw mountains casting shadows on the moon and realised this body was a world, like the Earth, endowed with complicated terrain.
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An Asiatic "moon bear" is the first in the world to have a damaged gallbladder removed using keyhole surgery.
Businesses around the world need the equivalent of a moon landing.
Partisan paranoia: Finally, a new poll found that absurd conspiracy theories are sadly alive and well in the USA. These range from the self-evidently absurd (an alien race of lizard people secretly run the world) to old chestnuts like the moon landing was faked.
Mr Aldrin has truly seen the world from a different perspective, from the Moon.
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In the summer of 1969, almost 42 years ago to the day, the entire world was talking about Americans going to the moon.
Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.
Together, we touched the surface of the moon, unlocked the mystery of the atom, connected the world through our own science and our own imaginations.
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Mr. Moon, who has sold his prototypes to some of the world's leading board game companies, is happy with the iPad version of his game.
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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, is bringing together every U.N. and World Bank institution concerned with education to work with governments to deliver new school places and train new teachers.
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However, at the heart of the Lunar men's interests lay a driving curiosity in the workings of the natural world (fittingly, they had chosen the full moon to meet because it gave the most light as they stumbled home, drunk on fine ideas and clever talk).
"He was not a professionally trained astronomer and yet did professional quality work, particularly when it came to mapping the Moon in the 1950s - I think every astronomer in the world owes something to Patrick Moore, " said ex-BBC science correspondent and fellow astronomer Dr David Whitehouse .
Macy, showing footage of American soldiers storming beaches of Normandy during World War II, a civil rights march, and a moon landing.
Start your day of shopping with an early morning tour of old world Arabia at Souq Waqif, located behind the crescent-moon shaped waterfront Corniche.
People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.
Those were the first words that any human being ever spoke on another world, when Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the Moon in 1969.
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Once JFK announced to the world that America would be the first nation to put a man on the moon, there was no turning back.
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He even told me that he was the only astronomer in the world who had dispensed with telescopes, because he could make out details on the Moon's surface with the naked eye.
In 1969, NASA gave the country and the world one of the most iconic moments in the history of television when it broadcast the moon landing.
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