She spends about three hundred days out of the year traveling around the world to discuss her many projects and goals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

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

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

The World Bank says dealing with climate change will require hundreds of billions a year in public and private financing.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Organizers of the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas say attendance was up twenty percent from last year.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Health experts say cancer will become the leading cause of death in the world by the year 2010.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The World Health Organization says there are an estimated two hundred thousand cases of the disease and thirty thousand deaths each year.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

This year's World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

The agency reported that the only parts of the world with cooler than average conditions this year were the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Except for a year at the University of Mississippi at the end of World War One, that was the last of his official education.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

That is twelve percent more than last year, and equal to two-thirds of the world's population.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In October of last year the same developer announced plans for the world's tallest building yet.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The world's top golfer met with reporters Monday before the first major tournament of the year.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

The next year, the readers of Good Housekeeping magazine voted Anne Morrow Lindbergh one of the ten women in the world they liked the most.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The I.M.F.says the world will slowly return to growth of almost two percent next year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Experts say that agriculture provides fourteen percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions each year.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

But the council says that is because the test can be taken almost every day of the year at more than 400 centers around the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

It also predicts for this year the biggest deficit, as a share of the economy, since World War Two: one trillion seven hundred fifty billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Clemente was voted the Most Valuable Player of that year's World Series.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Last year,the World Series of Poker produced its youngest champion yet.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

The magical world of Disney animation lost its cornerstone in 1966 when the 65-year-old Disney died of lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Because of the poor economy around the world, many passengers this year have booked flights closer to their departure date.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

General Motors, once the world's biggest automaker, also plans to close about 2,500 dealerships by the end of next year.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04