The International Monetary Fund has raised its prediction for world economic growth to four and six-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Experts say this park has the greatest number of arches of any similar geographic area in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

But this week its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn,said the world has entered what he called "a great recession."

VOA: special.2009.03.13

This kind of art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

This is the third year that World Malaria Day has been observed.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

He said this is not the first time Iran has tried to hide its nuclear activities from the world.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

For 30 years, Warren Guidroz has been fishing for crab out of this town, nicknamed the end of the world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

And that's the prevailing comment. The U.S.- the world - has never experienced a spill this enormous,this deep.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

He says he has no doubt that this will be a great World Cup and there will be no problem with security.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

(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

"Never before has the world come together in this way to talk about an economic crisis,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

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

"APEC has most of the fast growing economies in this part of the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

(Speaking) He says things can happen in this world but he spent a week in South Africa and has seen that the people are good and very friendly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Cassela says the World Food Program has delivered 117 metric tons of food to the region this month and hopes to deliver a total of 435 metric tons in August.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08

The H1N1 virus, which is commonly known as swine flu, has spread rapidly around the world since emerging in North America earlier this year, yet still much of what makes it so potent a threat remains a mystery.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Despite a $1 trillion rescue plan approved by eurozone nations to give low cost loans to member countries, the continuing weakness of Europe's common currency has driven many of the world's leading stock markets to their lowest levels this year.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"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