And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

More than two thousand people between the ages of forty-five and eighty took part in the study.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

When the people voted in November, their choice was between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

"We're also seeing a clash between politics and special interests in rich countries contrasted very sharply with real impacts for people in the developing world,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

In the past three days at least a dozen people have been killed in clashes between the Shabab and a Sufi Islam militia in central Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

The World Health Organization estimates that between 50,000 and 70,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with sleeping sickness, which is spread by the tsetse fly.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

As many as 100,000 people may have died in the two wars between Russia and Chechnya since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but exact figures are not known.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Kai Eide said a cleaner election and a credible government will go a long way toward closing what he called the "gap" between the Afghan people and officials in Kabul.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Speaking to the party faithful in the eastern state of Sabah on Sunday,Anwar says Malaysia is witnessing a battle between the common interests of the people against the ruling elites.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

He says the sudden upsurges of fighting between Pakistani government troops and militant Taliban in different areas of return is prompting tens of thousands of people to once again flee their homes.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"Where I think this film goes beyond what I usually expect of films like this is it creates this really in-depth,rich,complex relationship between these people and also this complex relationship that goes into the territory of nightmarish parenting."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Secretary Clinton says many people who heard President Obama's Cairo speech five months ago asked how his vision for a new understanding between the United States and the Muslim world would translate into meaningful changes in people's everyday lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03