In sub-Saharan Africa we have the highest death rates in the world, and they are around seven times higher than that."

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Miller's television drama, "Playing for Time", told of an orchestra of prisoners at the Nazi death camp,Auschwitz, during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

That was one and a half percent of the world economy, and just losses from early death and disability.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

The World Health Organization says mosquitoes carry organisms that cause disease and death for millions of people throughout the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

It caused strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world seemed to increase a man's fear of death.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Cardiovascular diseases of the heart and blood vessels are the number one cause of death around the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

It tells the story of a German woman who served as a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Health experts say cancer will become the leading cause of death in the world by the year 2010.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

After her death, the employees of The Washington Post wrote: "A world without Katharine Graham will not be the same at all."

VOA: special.2009.04.26

"By two thousand and twenty, C.O.P.D.will likely be the third leading cause of death across the world."

VOA: special.2009.06.23

Shortly after Borlaug's death, billionaire Bill Gates spoke at the World Food Prize symposium in Iowa.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

They expect that by two thousand ten, cancer will become the world's leading cause of death.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

A major reason is prematurity the death rates are among the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Mister Rehm said the high death rate is even more surprising because the large majority of adults around the world do not drink alcohol at all.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Around the world, fans like this one reacted to news of his death.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Newspapers all over the world reported his death on their front pages.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Smoking is the world's leading preventable cause of death.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Cardiovascular disease is the world's leading cause of death.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Every World Cup has its "group of death."

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Fans around the world mourned his death.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Friends in the entertainment world have expressed their grief, with pop diva Diana Ross calling Jackson's death too sudden and shocking.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Pneumonia is the world's leading cause of death among children.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Authorities responded with violence. And to much of the world, Iran's presidential election became represented by the image of the shooting death of a young woman,Neda Agha-Soltan, recorded on a shaky camera phone.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"Because cardiovascular death is the number one cause of death in the world, not just in developed countries, but throughout the world, the role that air pollutants play on this has a tremendous effect on overall world mortality."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04