Europe can be, if not equal to America's military might, a valuable partner in America's quest to maintain stability in the world, according to the paper.
Looking at the stats a little closer, the poverty rate has gone from 6% in 1996 to 2.8% in 2004, according to the World Bank.
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CNN's Adrian Finighan presents the show from Oslo -- the most expensive city in the world, according to Swiss bank UBS in their most recent survey.
Gold for jewelry fabrication measured by value saw a 13 percent increase during the fourth quarter of 2012, primarily due to robust demand in India, according to the World Gold Council.
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Just 12% of China's total area was arable in 2011, according to the World Bank, compared to 17.5% in the U.S. and 34% in Germany.
Dozens of public universities are planning to offer introductory MOOCs for credit to anyone with an internet connection around the world, according to a piece today in The New York Times.
More than 50, 000 women die each year of cervical cancer in Africa, according to World Health Organization estimates, as more than 80% of the cases are detected in late stages.
You may think your daily commute might be bad, but drivers in Brussels face the worst traffic jams in the world according to the annual Traffic Scorecard compiled by traffic and navigation service provider INRIX in Kirkland, Wash.
"He has made an extraordinary contribution to American politics, an extraordinary contribution to America's role in the world, " Rudd said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse.
Inflation is expected in the 6% to 7% range, according to the World Bank, but could even top the 20% to 25% range in places like Argentina and Venezuela.
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The debate is believed to be the first to address climate justice in a parliament in the world, according to former Irish president Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights and who now runs her own foundation for climate justice.
According to a World Economic Forum report in December, Italy now falls below all other European Union members save Poland in competitiveness.
At one point Pat Perez was ranked 95th in skill, according to their model, but 195th in the world rankings.
One sports physician has said Beckham has no chance of playing in the World Cup in South Africa, according to the Press Association.
Approximately one-half of the world's population lives in rural areas, according to the World Health Organization, and most of them usually lack trained health care workers.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is, for 2012, again the largest accounting firm in the world, according to Big4.com, after losing the crown temporarily to Deloitte in 2010.
In recent years, Guatemala has had one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, according to the United Nations: 40 homicides per 100, 000 inhabitants in 2010.
The Prime Minister remains firmly committed to England's bid to stage football's World Cup tournament in 2006, according to Sports Minister Tony Banks.
These changes seem to have resulted in a reduction in organ availability, according to the World Health Organization's Dr. Luc Noel, and they may have contributed to the failure of Kevin Scott's family ( click here for story) to get a liver in time to save him.
The figure would represent around one in nine people on earth, according to current population projections, but would mainly affect the world's poorest people in Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to the authors of "Human Tide: The Real Migration Crisis, " produced buy the charity Christian Aid.
Total silver demand rose to 1.048 billion ounces from 1.039 billion in 2011, according to the World Silver Survey 2013.
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Africa is favorably positioned to become the 2nd fastest growing region in the world, and according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), economic growth across the 54 countries of the continent will hover around 6% in 2012.
Globally, the number of polio cases has dropped to 1, 349 in 2010 from an estimated 350, 000 in 1998, according to the World Health Organization.
It is largely because of the rise of low-cost, no-frills carriers, which often fly between secondary airports, that air travel between European countries has recovered to about the same level that it was in March 2001, according to the World Tourism Organisation.
"The results suggest that this kind of pressure is effective and that U.S. capital markets are exceedingly important to a company's success in raising the large-scale amounts of capital required to sustain one of the largest energy companies in the world, " according to Adam Pener, senior analyst at the Washington, D.
Mr. Foley is described as an "accomplished golfer" in his Fidelity National biography, and was ranked as one of the top five executive golfers in the world by Golf Digest in 2004, according to his Fidelity biography.
There's room for more growth: credit amounted to just 50% of GDP in Brazil in 2007, compared with 169% in America, according to the World Bank.
International travel numbers have continued to increase at "pre-crisis levels", according to the UN World Tourism Organization, and are expected to do so in 2013 as well.
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