Toyota is Japan's biggest company and in two thousand eight it passed General Motors as the world's biggest carmaker.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The president wants the United States to regain the world's highest college graduation rates, especially in math and science.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

It grew into one of the largest community festivals in the western states, complete with the world's largest strawberry shortcake.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

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

The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Leaders of the world's biggest economies agreed Sunday to cut their deficits by half or more by twenty thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than one billion of the world's people faced hunger last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Ms.Skariah is teaching Indonesians but also learning about the culture of a country with the world's largest Muslim population.

VOA: special.2011.03.28

Last December, the Australia-based company Invetech reported that it had delivered the world's first production model 3-D bio-printer for Organovo.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

The U.N.report notes that the world's poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The report lists twenty-eight countries and territories with some of the world's most pressing crises affecting women and children.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The world's largest drug company has agreed to pay almost two and a half billion dollars for illegal marketing of medicines.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

This is meant to protect against possible losses should anything unexpected crush those green shoots in the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The leader of the world's Roman Catholics blessed the cornerstones of two churches to be built next to the river.

VOA: special.2009.05.18