Because of the poor economy around the world, many passengers this year have booked flights closer to their departure date.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

(MOIVE SOUND) Marshal Teddy Daniels enters this shadowy world because one of the patients (although he keeps calling them 'prisoners') has mysteriously vanished.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

WHO notes this is important because there are around of anti-malarial medicines around the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

Although interest in the World Expo has declined recently, many countries have made an extra effort to participate this year because China is the host.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

He says it is increasingly important to do this analysis in connection with urbanization because more than half of the world population lives in urban areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Why?Because this is where you find number one the world's biggest chunk of population - really between India and China there you have it, two-thirds the population just settled in this area.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

And,the country should not do that because if the country starts to do this, any terrorist in the world could start hijacking somebody and then our country would be forced to make concessions."

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

"In a lot of the parts of the developing world this trust could be broken and because it's become so profitable to distribute,sell,manufacture, a lot of these products that are of low quality, and substandard."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Developing agriculture in Africa has become even more urgent since the United Nations warned in a report earlier this month that governments must increase investment in agriculture because a billion people around the world are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

There are things that we can all relate to, so just because it is set in that era or in this mythological world or even a million years into the future, any movie that is worth its salt in this kind of genre should reflect issues that we deal with today.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"It's an astonishing feat to get six predictions in a row. I am told people are walking into our shops and saying 'I will have what the Octopus predicted.'" But before taking Paul's word for this World Cup, it might be worth checking out the competition, because Paul isn't the only animal making predictions on this World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14