The U.S.leader topped the list of most respected world leaders in a February poll by Harris Interactive.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The IEA's Birol agrees that when it comes to going green, China is another world leader.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

So we produce a world leader anyway and we should be proud of that."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Analysts like Reginald Dale of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington say this is a chance for the new U.S.president to show he can be a world leader in the economic arena.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

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

Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Scoresby became famous that day as a great military leader C honored throughout the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"Scoresby became famous that day as a great military leader, honored throughout the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Summit host,Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was quoted as saying the ICC represents a "new world terrorism".

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

But the world's most populous nation is also a leader in renewable energies.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"We have a moral imperative to do this. We are the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world, the great economic leader of the developed world, but the only one that does have access to quality, affordable health care for our people, and we intend to do so,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"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