"And nation building, social cohesion, is an important outcome for us in this World Cup.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

(Speaking) He says things can happen in this world but he spent a week in South Africa and has seen that the people are good and very friendly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Now his work has earned him this year's World Food Prize from the World Food Prize Foundation in Des Moines,Iowa.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

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

This past week,volunteers from Red Cross and Red Crescent societies around the world gathered in Solferino to mark the anniversary.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

During this period,many experts warned of mass starvation in the developing world where populations were expanding faster than crop production.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

A new report this week from China showed that its economy became the world's 3rd largest in 2007, passing Germany.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

This week,we tell about the biggest system of freshwater lakes in the world, the Great Lakes between the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southwest, near the city of Carlsbad,New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

Experts say this park has the greatest number of arches of any similar geographic area in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

"This is quite an unacceptable situation given the fact that we are all living in modern world.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

This kind of art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

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

VOA: special.2010.06.22