And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries.

Last night 40,000 people rented accommodation from a service that offers 250,000 rooms in 30,000 cities in 192 countries.

We might look to other countries for models of how high schools can offer better training, as well as the development of a work ethic ( 勤奮工作的美德 ) and the intellectual skills needed for continued learning and development

Why couldn't Britain compete with some of its neighbouring countries in terms of food in the post-war decades?

Malnutrition has caused serious health problems in poor countries

It caused a big stir in developing countries.

How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards

W : We mainly deal with large volume buyers from western countries and our products have been well received.

There were also differences in the most popular outdoor pursuits between the three countries

Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of minority group in North America.

"Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries," he says.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steel case, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are "engaged" is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberati

After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

Around 9 in 10 people in low- and middle-income countries live in places where they regularly experience dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution.

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.

But a new report by Deloitte, "Global Human Capital Trends", based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

But adding Venice to the UNESCO endangered list—which is dominated by sites in developing and conflict- ridden countries—would be an international embarrassment, and could even hurt Italy's profitable tourism industry.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains?

But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Riboli.

Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.

However, he points out that many countries have not done so.

If I had the time and money, I would live for a year in as many countries as possible.

In literacy, they were actually doing better than their peers in other countries.

In many European countries,where diesel vehicles have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.

In most other countries of the world, there is no capital punishment for minors.

In response to those restrictions, grain-importing countries are trying to nail down long-term trade agreements that would lock up future grain supplies.

It has been found that not eating breakfast is related to the incidence of certain diseases in some countries.

It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

It's spoken in many countries of the world because of the British Empire.

michigan's dominance in auto research and development is under attack from several states and countries which desire to replace our leadership in transportation.

millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.

One of the best known of these small countries is Monaco.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

Some people wonder why countries spend millions of dollars on space projects.

Stawood Hotels and Resorts, which owns more than 1, 150 hotels in nearly 100 countries, plans to install the system in the next three months at two of its hotels in the USA.

That’s the conclusion of a recently released study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, revealing an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water.

The "millennials" who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school on wards to work in groups.

The biggest gains go to countries that import most of their oil like China, Japan, and India.

The Director General of the International Labour Organization Juan Somavia notes that some countries have taken measures to address the effects of the global crisis.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

Today, the EFK program operates over 144 branches in 32 states within the United States and in 21 countries.

Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

As countries continue setting goals of reducing emissions, greater steps need to be taken to have a noticeable effect on the surrounding environment.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate "free-riders": causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan

Entitled "the Seven Countries Study'', it is considered one of the greatest studies of its kind ever performed.

Even so, the levels in these countries are also rising.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand especially from eme

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

Manufacturers in America valued "speed to market" more than in other countries, the report found.

Many European countries have been making the shift to electric vehicles and Germany has just stated that they plan to ban the sale of vehicles using gasoline and diesel as fuel by 2030.

Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.

Moreover, it can be used to assess economic performance both across countries and over time.

Moreover, non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.

"In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development," It continues.

Parts of the Balkan region and Turkey follow the diet, as well as middle Eastern countries like Lebanon and Syria.

Ruel says countries may take different approaches to reducing child under nutrition.

Some countries have had a hard time here.

The countries that have inspired the Mediterranean diet all surround the Mediterranean Sea.

The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.

The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the global disease from which they now suffer the most.

The quite dramatic unemployment figures, which we now see in some of the countries, strongly suggest that there will be greater pressure on wages in the future, as more people will be unemployed, more people will be looking for jobs and the pressure on em

The relatively poor live in high-income countries but they do not have a high income themselves.

The report finds more than a quarter of the countries experienced flat or falling monthly wages in real terms.

The U.S. is also the only advanced economy that does not guarantee workers paid vacation time, and it's one of only two countries in the world that does not offer guaranteed paid maternity leave.

The World Meteorological Organization points to Cuba and Bangladesh as examples of countries that have successfully reduced the loss of life caused by natural disasters by taking preventive action.

This is not only a problem in developing countries.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

Traffic has become synonymous with air pollution, and many countries intend to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the next two decades.

We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.

While there is still much progress to be made, other countries could learn a thing or two from the example set by France and Italy.

You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.