"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

At its worst, the crisis affected nearly a third of world air travel.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

IFAD estimates 500 million smallholder farms worldwide are supporting two billion people -- one third of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The WHO reports that about a third of the world's live in India.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

"America itself is consuming one third of the world's resources on its own,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.23

Hundreds of thousands of passengers around the world remain stranded for a third day as European flights were slashed Saturday down to one-quarter of their normal number.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

He agrees with Fisher that the tradition of non profits in developed countries giving tools and equipment to poor people in third world countries -- is a poor model.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Ghana's Under-20 national team wrapped up a fantastic three-week performance by edging Brazil on penalty kicks,4-3, to win their first title in their third appearance in the final of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

"A sense that a step is made to release prisoners, and the government is trying to build some bridges in certain areas, but at the same time, the revolutionary side is given its moment in which Fidel Castro is able to excoriate the United States and to continue to lay out the revolutionary credentials, or Cuba's role as a leader of the Third World."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13