Defra officials gently pointed out that perhaps the "kill-a-cow, save-the-world" policy might have a few flaws.
Richards, who finished fourth, was also the first British woman to complete the marathon round-the-world event.
It also set a record for round-the-world flight time at 42 hours and 27 minutes.
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Since it went into service in 1969, the QE2 has made at least 26 round-the-world voyages.
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The endurance competition, which kicked off December 31, is the world's only "double-handed, " non-stop, around-the-world yacht race.
John is someone who made it from the blue-collar world into the white-collar world with a blue-collar attitude.
The 38-year-old is only the third Briton to achieve a podium finish in the non-stop three-month round-the-world race.
Once there, Sunshine has a wonderfully heady, top-of-the-world atmosphere, with more than half of the skiing above tree line.
School Reporters at Cliff Park High School in Great Yarmouth are getting set to interview around-the-world sailor Rachel Pryce.
In fact, it provides an excellent around-the-world tour of almost every country that has an economy of any meaningful size.
Bertrand Piccard, the plane's other creator, and Borschberg are planning an around-the-world flight in an improved version of the plane in 2015.
After an end-of-the-world 7.5% plunge on Tuesday, the OSX rallied 5.5% yesterday.
The yachtsman was attempting a solo round-the-world voyage when he ran into trouble on Friday, 500 nautical miles off Australia's island state.
It is, after all, the best paper around, a true wonder-of-the-world.
The current aircraft HB-SIA is effectively the prototype for the craft that will eventually be used for transoceanic flights and the round-the-world trip.
For sailors even more intrepid, there's the around-the-world Global Challenge , a U.K.-based trek that covers 29, 000 miles and touches five continents.
But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.
The next time he makes one of his great save-the-world speeches, many of his audience will suddenly find themselves thinking about Mr Desmond's magazines.
The 40ft (12m) piece of wreckage was salvaged from the Team Philips super-yacht which was hit by a freak mid-Atlantic storm during a round-the-world race.
In 1521, Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines while on a pioneering round-the-world voyage.
Last year when Fossett made a similar round-the-world attempt, Libya gave Fossett permission at the last minute, after Fossett had already descended and shifted his course.
Despite the two Welshmen's losses, Team GB drew 6-6 with an impressive rest-of-the-world squad made up of fighters from Sweden, the United States, Ireland and China.
This was a round-the-world cruise taken by Craig Venter on his yacht, Sorcerer II, which studied the diversity of micro-organisms in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Later in my journey, it took 22 days on a cargo freighter to get from New Zealand through the Panama Canal and back to Philadelphia, to finish my round-the-world adventure.
In classics, it has the great Universal Classics catalog, meaning recordings by artists like Herbert Von Karajan, Maurizio Pollini, the Emerson String Quartet, and other best-in-the-world acts.
It's a humongous club -- for me, one of the biggest in the world -- and to have the fans and world-class players we have here is amazing.
Despite its image as a purple, loopy purveyor of fun, Yahoo is a solitary place defined by an us-against-the-world fervor and a confidence that verges on fatal arrogance.
MacArthur smashed Frenchman Francis Joyon's solo round-the-world record in 2005.
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After all, our middle class was built by workers who invented products and made products and sold products -- the best in the world -- all around the world.
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