Rahman is not well known in the western world but he is very famous in his native India.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

"That is what has attracted a lot of people from the Western world our colors,our songs,our dances, the Bollywood masala."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"The situation is somehow much more unknown to the Western world and was not particularly described in the media and it was particularly touching."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

They include what is said to be the largest growth of mangrove trees in the western half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

It grew into one of the largest community festivals in the western states, complete with the world's largest strawberry shortcake.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

ong before the first Europeans arrived in the New World, a strange looking animal lived on the rich grasses of the western plains.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Haiti is the poorest nation in the western half of the world.

VOA: special.2010.01.16

But a 2005 study by the World Health Organization also found France has a higher suicide rate than any other western nation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11