But counting the world's third largest population -- about three hundred nine million by current estimates -- is no easy job.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

Between nineteen fifty-three and nineteen fifty-nine she appeared in lead parts in many popular movies: "How To Marry a Millionaire."

VOA: special.2009.12.06

This three-week event brings eight hundred artists to the city to celebrate the arts and culture of the Arab world.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Three-fourths of the charities that answered the survey said the recession had forced them to dismiss workers or cut other spending.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In any case, nineteen eighty-three was the year Ahmet Ertegun set out to establish an organization that became the foundation.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Students in the three-year program at Bates College in Lewiston,Maine, take more classes each semester than the other students.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

An estimated one billion people in forty countries watched this program when it was broadcast on television in nineteen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

He was fifty-three years old. J.Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi were two of the greatest scientists of the century.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

His first version of the historic film "The Ten Commandments" was a huge success among silent films in nineteen twenty-three.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

VOA: special.2010.01.09

The organization had been established in eighteen sixty-three to offer better treatment for people wounded or captured during wars.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

On May twenty-ninth, nineteen fifty-three, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to reach the summit of Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

A new report by the I.M.F.estimates that the world economy will shrink by one and three-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

But a three-year study showed that beetles like to feed more on the transgenic plants, increasing cases of wilt disease.

VOA: special.2009.10.27