On a positive note, the United Nations estimates the number of child soldiers worldwide has fallen to 250,000 compared to 300,000 five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

On a less positive note, the number of newly laid off Americans seeking unemployment benefits totaled 551,000 last week, up from 534,000 the previous week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Another thing is that most patients - And of those who were tested, only a small number were positive, even though the researchers tested 30 times more people than would normally be tested for HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"If he does not show some progress and it just seems like we are getting deeper and deeper into an occupation and a counter-insurgency effort without any positive news for a number of months, I think he could face some real opposition,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.02