Last month the World Bank predicted a 2% decrease this year - the largest drop since the 1940s.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (translator): "The Sejil-2 missile, which has very advanced technology, was launched from Semnan and it landed precisely on the target."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

The researchers compared cotinine levels to behavioral problems that parents observed in the children during a 2-week period.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Doctor Chan says the effects appeared especially strong among patients with tumors expressing an enzyme called COX-2.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

The 2-year plan calls for spending on public works and a tax cut for low-income Germans.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

When the war ended, American forces found the parts for about one hundred V-2 rockets.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Called V-2 rockets, the German weapons carried a ton of explosives three hundred twenty kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

He insisted on buying me a drink and pulled 2 one-dollar bills from his pocket.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The army opened the V-2 launch program to American scientists at several universities.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Civilian scientists used the V-2 rockets to study the Earth's atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

Modern paper-making began in China about 2,000 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

"My World 2.0" was released on March twenty-third.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

His inaugural committee Web site is naming donors who have given The limit for individual contributions is Organizers have been preparing for as many as 2 million people at the inauguration of the first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The ever-busy Cullum kicked off his 2010 world tour on March 2 at the Oak Room in New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16