• The world's best, the world's hardest-working and the world's most ambitious are still coming our way.

    WSJ: America's New Tiger Immigrants: Asians in the U.S.

  • Fifty more nearby residential towers are envisioned, along with a low-rise residential development, the world's largest marina, the world's largest mall and the world's largest fountain.

    FORBES: Real Estate

  • All over the world there are conflicts in which the weak are pitted against the outrageously strong and the world's systems of retrospective justice give us the kind of verdict we saw against Charles Taylor at the UN-backed court at The Hague the other week but all this remains oddly unsatisfying.

    BBC: African viewpoint: Last of the Nuba?

  • Since then, because hardly any new money has been flowing into Asian markets and because India is being painted with the same brush as the rest of Asia's and the world's emerging markets, the Indian market has fallen, too, and money has flown out of Indian stocks.

    CNN: Booking a Passage to India

  • The first major meet of the year, the World Cup, was held in Tehran roughly a week after the IOC decision, and the world's top 10 wrestling nations including the U.S., Russia and Iran met to discuss how to respond to the IOC.

    WSJ: US, Russia and Iran to wrestle in New York

  • Obama's disgraceful treatment of Israel and, for that matter, his atrocious treatment of the majority of America's allies in the Middle East and throughout the world, has strengthened the hands of America's worst enemies and made the world a much more dangerous place.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's failure, Netanyahu's opportunity

  • It's this vivid blurring of the real and the imaginary, the material world and the spiritual, that's at the heart of Cameron's movie.

    CNN: Review: 'Avatar' delivers on the hype

  • The two documentaries 'The Climate Game and the World's Poor' look at climate change from the perspective of the poor and the developing countries.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • With cocoa and cotton ready for harvest in Ivory Coast - the economic powerhouse of the region, and the world's largest cocoa producer - every lapse in the peace process creates more economic hardship.

    BBC: Nigeria snubs Ivory Coast force

  • The policeman who counts is Detective-Superintendent David Hankins and he publicly, several times this week, in my presence when I was at Soham one day, welcomed the reward offers from newspapers, The Sun and the News of the World's combined offer, and he said how grateful the parents of both Holly and Jessica were at this direct reward support from the media.

    BBC: Stuart Kuttner, Managing Editor, News of the World

  • Time and again he has drawn parallels between the Iranian nuclear crisis and the world's failure to prevent WWII and the Holocaust while it still had the chance.

    BBC: Iran crisis: Would Israel launch an attack?

  • After the Great Depression and the Second World War the U.S. helped create and nurture the institutions that enabled war-torn Europe and Japan to make rapid recoveries.

    FORBES: Japan and Europe Are Killing Themselves

  • The technically-minded Nick Faldo, the world's best player in the 1980s and 1990s, was also the world's slowest pro, at least among the elite.

    WSJ: John Paul Newport on Slow Play | Golf Journal

  • As the flagship handset in ZTE's high-end Grand Series line of products, the ZTE Grand S is the company's first FHD smartphone and the world's thinnest within 5 inch FHD quad-core smartphones, enabled by the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

    ENGADGET: ZTE Grand S unveiled: at 6.9mm, it's the 'world's thinnest' 5-inch, 1080p phone

  • Venezuela surpassed Saudi Arabia as the nation with the largest oil reserves in the world, and the U.S. is the largest importer of Venezuelan oil.

    CNN: Seize this moment to forge ties with Venezuela

  • "But Clark made it to the top of his profession because he was the right guy at the right time on the right show and America and the world's most popular television music program!"

    CNN: Countdown: Top 10 reasons we love Dick Clark

  • If fully enforced, the ban will destroy one of the biggest components of the opium trade in the Golden Triangle, and shrink the world's supply of heroin.

    ECONOMIST: Myanmar

  • Some European countries have enjoyed healthy growth in recent years, but Germany, the biggest economy in the euro area (and the world's third largest) had two quarters of negative growth in the second half of last year, according to figures released on February 27th: as a rule of thumb, that is how economists judge whether a country is in recession.

    ECONOMIST: Ready to party?

  • On a webinar last week someone asked me how I thought the Japanese tsunami would affect the future of nuclear power around the world, and in the U.S. in particular.

    FORBES: Nuclear Power Needs Greater Transparency

  • Industry research claims internet gaming overtook the film industry three years ago as the world's most popular entertainment medium, and the world's estimated 300m internet gamers who are nearly all under 35 years old will probably double in number in less than a decade.

    ECONOMIST: Geeks gather for the world gaming championships

  • However, the home crowd's relief was shortlived as Ronaldo beat the offside trip to gather Mesut Ozil's fine pass down the right, and the world's most expensive player netted his 54th goal this season from an acute angle.

    CNN: Clasico win gives Real the title edge as Barca lose again

  • Defeat would have all but spelt the end for Portugal, who made the semifinals in the 2006 World Cup and boast the world's most expensive footballer in Cristiano Ronaldo.

    CNN: Liedson salvages point for struggling Portugal

  • Now, as the world's largest economy and as the world's second largest emitter, America bears our responsibility to address climate change, and we intend to meet that responsibility.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Copenhagen Climate Change Conference-Morning Plenary Session | The White House

  • The Mexican economy is very integrated to the world economy and the U.S. economy, so they were affected by the recession very badly themselves.

    WHITEHOUSE: Open for Questions with President Obama

  • These violations of the universal rights of the Syrian people have revealed to Syria, the region, and the world the Assad government's flagrant disrespect for the dignity of the Syrian people.

    BBC: Full text: Barack Obama statement on Assad

  • The hacking revelations led to the closure of the News of the World and the government's decision to set up a judicial inquiry into press standards headed by Lord Leveson.

    BBC: Rupert Murdoch 'not a fit person' to lead News Corp - MPs

  • Mr Kim, an avid advocate against global warming, said the bank's and the world's top priorities needed to be energy pricing, ending fuel subsidies and making low-carbon cities.

    BBC: Jim Yong Kim

  • "If you want to eradicate crime, let's work together with the Iranian nation and other nations of the world and let's put on trial the Zionist leaders of the Zionist regime, " the Iranian leader said.

    CNN: Ahmadinejad: Iran welcomes Obama overtures

  • For more info about the state of the internet and the world's 1.1 billion 3G subscribers hit up the source link.

    ENGADGET: Internet Trends report finds online growth driven by China and India, users increasingly mobile

  • His company is a combination of 200-year-old Schweppes and 150-year-old Cadbury, imbued with the strong social conscience of the Quaker Cadburys and owner of some of Britain's (and the world's) best-known food-and-drink brands.

    ECONOMIST: Corporate durability

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