Each correct prediction is worth a set number of points, with the value for correct picks increasing in each successive round.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Since then, the Muslim majority nation of 150 million people has struggled to overcome endemic poverty and a legacy of coups and other violent attempts to oust successive governments.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Already the region's poorest country, Haiti was battered by four successive hurricanes last year that wiped out about 15 percent of the country's economic output and further damaged roads and other elements of an already weak infrastructure.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14