Like netbooks, tablets are less costly ways to use the World Wide Web and digital information.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

In world banking, the total share of Islamic finance is less than one percent.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

The World Health Organization says less than 40 percent of mothers around the world breast-feed their infants in the first six months.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

India's national elections, the world's largest exercise in democracy, begin in less than three weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

It is unrealistic,he says, to expect him to have delivered on most of his promises, less than a year after his inspirational address to the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

South Africa has less than one percent of the world's population.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

Dubai World says it will restructure less than half of the nearly The new scheme will look at options for deleveraging, including asset sales,and will apply to the conglomerate's main property firms, Nakheel and Limitless.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

In closing the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt last Friday, FIFA President Sepp Blatter sounded less than assured in wishing the best to Nigeria as host of the Under-17 event, in what he described as the African year of football.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14