The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

A 2002 report estimated there were 5, 000 to 12, 000 blue whales worldwide, located in at least five groups.

Chlamydia conjunctivitis or trachoma was once the most important cause of blindness worldwide, but its role diminished from 15 % of blindness cases by trachoma in 1995 to 3. 6 % in 2002.

The 2003 Berkeley report stated that in 2002 alone, " telephone calls worldwide on both landlines and mobile phones contained 17. 3 exabytes of new information if stored in digital form " and that " it would take 9. 25 exabytes of storage to hold all U. S. calls each year.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

* Mercer, Mick: 21st Century Goth ( Reynolds & Hearn, 2002 ; ISBN 1-903111-28-5 )- an exploration of the modern state of the goth subculture worldwide.

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Since the 2002 purchase of NAI's PGP assets, PGP Corporation has offered worldwide PGP technical support from its offices in Draper, Utah ; Offenbach, Germany ; and Tokyo, Japan.

10. 6 million units were sold worldwide, as of 2002.

Since 2002, Hyundai has also been one of the worldwide official sponsors of the FIFA World Cup.

The XML dialect called AIML was developed by Richard Wallace and a worldwide free software community between the years of 1995 and 2002.

According to Steinway, 97 % of the world's piano soloists chose to play publicly on a Steinway piano during the 2010 – 11 North American concert season, and 99 % during the 2002 – 03 worldwide concert season.

2002 was the centennial year of Rodgers's birth, celebrated worldwide with books, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma !.

On 2 October 2002, the CEO, Thierry Breton was called to turn the company round, since at that time, France Telecom was the 2nd most in debt company worldwide in terms of short-term liabilities.

Using panel data estimates of export and import equations for 17 countries, Jakob B. Madsen ( 2002 ) estimated the effects of increasing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers on worldwide trade during the period 1929 – 1932.

* Pearlasia Gamboa, president of the micronation of Melchizedek, hundreds of aliases ; in 2002, one of Gamboa's banking and investor fraud schemes was described by the Italian newspaper La Republica as " one of the most diabolical international scams ever devised in recent years ", and in 2000, the Asia Times described Gamboa's operations as " an astonishing series of worldwide swindles ".

The film was re-released in 1985 and 2002, earning another $ 60 million and $ 68 million respectively, for a worldwide total of $ 792 million with North America accounting for $ 435 million.

By 2002, Bananarama had sold 40million records worldwide.

In July 2002, Somerset County again made worldwide news when nine coal miners were rescued from several hundred feet underground from the Quecreek mine after an intense multi-day struggle.

In 2002, Esri had approximately a 30 percent share of the GIS software market worldwide, more than any other vendor.

Others, pointing, among other considerations, to the fact that, globally, there are more priests and seminarians now than in previous years ( in 1970, there were 72, 991 major seminarians worldwide, in 2002, there were 113, 199, an increase of 55 %, at a time, however, when there was an increase of global population of 64 %), suggest that the apparent decline of Catholic practice in the West is due to the general influence of secularism and liberalism on Western societies rather than to developments within the Catholic Church.

JVC has been a worldwide football supporter since 1982, having a former kit sponsorship with Arsenal and continued its role as an official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea / Japan.

In the Philippines, Eid ul-Fitr, known to the Christian majority and other non-Muslims as " Wakás ng Ramadán " (" End of Ramadan ") or incorrectly as " Ramadan ", has been recognised by the Philippine Government as a regular holiday by virtue of Republic Act No. 9177 and it is also according to Presidential Proclamation No. 1083, signed into law on November 13, 2002 – the only Christian country worldwide to have done so.

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

" In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29.

In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, he was ranked 29.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

In the 2002 poll of the Sight and Sound publication, Coppola ranked # 4 in the directors ' top ten directors of all time and # 10 in the critics ' top ten directors of all time.

In November 2002 OSNews conducted a poll to determine the most popular Gecko-based browser, which included several browsers for Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Linux, but didn't include Netscape Navigator and Mozilla Suite.

Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 public poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Owain has since been voted in at 23rd in a poll of 100 Greatest Britons in 2002, and 2nd in the 100 Welsh Heroes poll of 2003-04.

Prime Minister Helen Clark offered New Zealand's Chinese community an official apology for the poll tax on 12 February 2002.

In the 2002 Sight & Sound directors ' poll, Tarantino revealed his top 12 films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Rio Bravo ; Taxi Driver ; His Girl Friday ; Rolling Thunder ; They All Laughed ; The Great Escape ; Carrie ; Coffy ; Dazed and Confused ; Five Fingers of Death ; and Hi Diddle Diddle.

A 2002 nationwide poll in the United Kingdom to discover the " 100 Greatest Britons " showed Shackleton in eleventh place, Scott well down the list at 54th.

Acclaimed director Michael Haneke named the film his fourth favorite film when he voted for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll ; director Catherine Breillat and film critic Joel David also voted for the film.

In the Sight & Sound directors ' poll, it was voted at number ten in 1992 and number nine in 2002, in both cases being tied with Kurosawa's own Rashomon ( 1950 ).

Harding was also considered the third worst president in a 2002 Siena poll.

In August 2002, Powell appeared 55th in the List of 100 Greatest Britons of all time ( voted for by the public in a BBC nationwide poll ).

He was voted the third greatest British prime minister of the 20th century in a poll of 139 academics organised by MORI, and in 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote.

A 2002 IPSOS poll showed that while 22 % of the electorate have a good or very good opinion of Le Pen, and 13 % an unfavorable opinion, 61 % have a very unfavorable opinion.

The first poll was held in 2002, with MPs serving four ‑ year terms ; the second parliamentary election took place on 25 November 2006.

The March 2002 poll revealed that of the 356 persons surveyed, 66. 9 % were interested in accepting British citizenship, and only 18 % said that they would refuse it.

It was voted such in 2002 following a poll by the wild plant conservation charity Plantlife.

Acclaimed by directors including Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick ,, Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound " Directors ' Top Directors " poll 2002.

The 2002 Sight & Sound poll of film critics and directors did not place Rio Bravo in its top ten, but it did find it to be the best film directed by Howard Hawks, with 7 votes, surpassing seven of his other films, including His Girl Friday ( 5 votes ), Red River ( 4 ), To Have and Have Not ( 3 ), and Bringing Up Baby ( 2 ).

In September 2002, Streatham High Road was voted the " Worst Street in Britain " in a poll organised by the BBC Today programme and CABE.