The aim of this day is to urge local action and increase awareness about the state of the world's environment.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The World Health Organization says Africa is behind other parts of the world in treating H.I.V./AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says apples are grown in many parts of the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.29

Twenty years after the Civil War, the Unitedbl States had become one of the leading industrial nations of the world.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

There are worries that the crisis could be the first of more to come in other parts of the world.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

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

He says many parts of the world are doing too little to correct the problem of lead poisoning in children.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Leaders of the world's biggest economies agreed Sunday to cut their deficits by half or more by twenty thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

An American stuck in London, already one of the world's highest priced cities, found that her hotel had doubled its prices.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

In fact,the people who live on Islamorada Key claim their island is the "Sports Fishing Capital of the World."

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Thompson said the port of San Francisco was big enough to hold all the navies of the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Each is meant to represent the light of freedom as it shines on the seven seas and seven continents of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The event gathers some of the world's most powerful political and business leaders at a small ski village in the Swiss Alps.

VOA: special.2009.01.23