• At this time of year, walking from one to the other will probably involve negotiating four jugglers, two unicyclists, a retro-clad maiden doing light operatics and a local who's trying make a quid from her world-record number of body-piercings.

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  • Its world council - the body that would decide whether to introduce the system - meets next month.

    BBC: F1 boss plans scoring revolution

  • The move from level three to level four on the WHO's six-level threat scale means the world body has determined the virus is capable of significant human-to-human transmission -- a major step toward a flu pandemic, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the agency's assistant director-general.

    CNN: The story

  • The allegations mean a third of football's world governing body executive committee - eight of the 24 members - have been accused of acting improperly, and in some cases taking bribes, in relation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.

    BBC: Fifa: Focus on men at centre of corruption claims

  • In attempting to verify these documents -- from FIFA, the various federations and clubs involved -- only the world governing body and the Belgian FA responded directly to CNN's request to confirm their authenticity, while a professional Belgian referee confirmed that the Anderlecht team sheet was the type of paperwork used in Belgian football.

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  • The divide was evident earlier this month at the Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting in Arlington, US - the body that includes 17 of the world's highest-polluting nations.

    BBC: Climate summit opens amid big emitters' stalling tactics

  • The president of football's world governing body added that goal-line technology and extra referees would be considered for the South Africa finals.

    BBC: Republic of Ireland ask for extra 2010 World Cup place

  • The birth of the first child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and ultimately spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.

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  • The birth of the first human child who began life as an embryo outside the human body made headlines world-wide and, within a few years, spawned hundreds of commercial IVF clinics.

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  • The recent warning by the Financial Action Task Force, the world's premier standard-setting body for countering terrorist financing and money laundering, confirms the extraordinary risks that accompany doing business with Iran.

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  • Nevertheless, if McLaren were concerned Hamilton could get a penalty - and given the level of paranoia at the team about the motives of the FIA, world motorsport's governing body - they should have intervened, asked Hamilton to let Raikkonen back past again and then let them carry on.

    BBC: The right ruling on Hamilton?

  • Despite years of resistance to any form of instant replay, soccer's world governing body announced Tuesday that it would fully implement goal-line technology for the 2014 World Cup and the 2013 Confederations Cup.

    WSJ: Heard on the Pitch

  • The results meant the assembly has 30 out of 60 women members - the first nationally-elected body in the world with at least 50% female representation.

    BBC: Labour could reopen women row

  • The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, a 97-year-old nonprofit body that issues a seal of approval to business and accounting programs world-wide, says it needs the flexibility to support a growing group of programs from around the world.

    WSJ: B-School Accrediting Body Retools Its Standards

  • Secretary-General Kofi Annan in calling for "far-reaching reform" of the world body to meet new threats.

    CNN: Chirac: Iraq war undermined U.N.

  • Ideally, says a report prepared for an upcoming meeting on charities and terrorism under the auspices of the Financial Action Task Force, the world's main anti-money-laundering body, charities should document employees, projects and possible donors, as well as running field audits to ensure that money has not gone astray.

    ECONOMIST: Money, bombs and bin Laden | The

  • Even in a virtual world, communication is heavily dependent on two-way body language cues.

    FORBES: Body Language in Second Life

  • Football's world governing body made its opposition to the co-hosting proposal known last Thursday after a meeting of Fifa's executive committee in Germany.

    BBC: By Durosimi Thomas

  • Fifa's announcement on Saturday came as world football's governing body wrapped up its end-of-year executive committee meetings in Tokyo.

    BBC: Fifa unveils 2022 World Cup plan

  • And to Secretary Napolitano, since there aren't body-imaging machines all over the world, I take it that pat-downs might be used.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing on Security Review

  • But the fury was beginning to undermine a world-class athletic event, not to mention its organizing body, the New York Road Runners.

    WSJ: NYC Marathon Takes the Right Road

  • Twenty million people world-wide have visited Von Hagens' plastination exhibition, Body Worlds.

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  • In global finance, the Bank for International Settlements should be transformed from a discussion forum for central bankers into a policy co-ordinating body, turning it into the world's central bank with a mandate to keep inflation stable and low worldwide.

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  • Back on May 11, FIFA president Sepp Blatter proclaimed that the vote-selling scandal that has devastated world football and its governing body had to be resolved in time for the June 1 presidential election.

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  • In March, it looked as though Pistorius would not get the chance to compete against able-bodied runners after the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, introduced a rule banning any runner deemed to benefit from artificial help.

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  • Next year, world governing body IAAF will launch the Diamond League, a 14-city tour also including events in Asia and the United States.

    BBC: Powell beats Gay in Brussels 100m

  • Football's world governing body wants to stop clubs fielding more than five non-nationals in a starting XI, a move the EU says would be illegal.

    BBC: Fifa plans talks on player quotas

  • The resulting furore prompted football's world governing body, Fifa, to investigate the introduction of goal-line technology, which was used for the first time in a Club World Cup match last December.

    BBC: Frank Lampard signs children's book deal

  • FIA, the sport's world governing body, will have an extra observer at the four-day event after last year's incident when the Ford Focus of Carlos Sainz hit a radio-car and hit a group of spectators, injuring 13 people.

    BBC: McRae in plea to fans

  • Steadily COPA has produced a body of knowledge about how Cirrus airplanes behave in real-world conditions that has served Cirrus supremely well.

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