An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans.

Some 98 % of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

* 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.

Aon is the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

He also had a well-trained larger army and possessed a substantial part of Nadir Shah's treasury, including the world's largest Koh-i-Noor diamond.

Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.

* List of world's largest cuckoo clocks

The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.

One of the world's largest Bauxite mines in Weipa, Australia

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, over 100, 000 pieces, outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The British Museum has one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100, 000 objects.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Nationwide Building Society is the UK's and the world's largest building society

It was, very probably, the world's largest land battle of the 17th century.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

The world's largest animal, the blue whale, and fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, are chordates.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.

He is a former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy ( SPA ), author of over 70 books on astronomy, and presenter of the world's longest-running television series with the same original presenter, The Sky at Night on the BBC.

Moore appears in the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-serving TV presenter, by virtue of having presented the show since 1957.

It is the world's largest owner of sports teams and sports events, the owner of the world ’ s most profitable sports and entertainment venues, and under AEG Live the world's second largest presenter of live music and entertainment events after Live Nation.

The presenter reported Citroen's claim that its XM had the world's largest estate loading bay and went on to say: " with this high rear window line you have truly a vast volume of space hidden from prying eyes.

Despite being one of the world's longest-running sports television programmes, there had only been five main anchors in 51 years on air, largely due to the 32-year tenure of its first presenter Arthur Montford who departed in 1989.

In January 2007, Vine became the presenter of the BBC's flagship and the world's oldest current affairs programme, Panorama, which coincided with the show's move back to a Monday peak-time slot.

It is the world's largest owner of sports teams and sports events, the owner of the world ’ s most profitable sports and entertainment venues, and under AEG Live, the world's second largest presenter of live music and entertainment events ( after Live Nation ).

In 2005, he became the 31st presenter of Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's television series.

He was the presenter of the first live transatlantic broadcast from the US via Telstar, the first live telecast from Australia in November 1966, and interviewed South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard by telephone in 1967, within hours of the completion of the world's first heart transplant operation.

Kimberley Perez, the world's youngest radio presenter, has hosted a radio show at La Raza since she was five years old.

To premiere the new recordings, Psyche had the honor of performing for nearly 2, 000 psychotic-electro fans as the support of the world's first known synth duo, Suicide.

On February 19, 1987, at the Palomino Club in Los Angeles, Fogerty broke his self-imposed 1972 ban on performing his Creedence Clearwater Revival hits, on an admonition from Bob Dylan and George Harrison ( who both joined him onstage ) that " if you don't, the whole world's gonna think ' Proud Mary ' is Tina Turner's song.

Japan's most famous tale, and some say the world's first modern novel, The Tale of Genji was penned by Murasaki Shikibu while performing as a lady-in-waiting in Heian-kyo.

* Mr Methane ( born in Macclesfield )-the world's only currently performing flatulist.

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica is both a quartet ( primarily performing a new version of the genre they call " third-stream exotica ") and a big band performing the world's only transcriptions of Esquivel's large ensemble music.

Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the world's major performing arts festivals.

She served as President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ), the world's foremost performing right organization, for fifteen years.

He co-founded one of the largest and most successful currency management firms ; GaiaCorp, and managed an offshore currency fund ( Gaia Hedge II ) which was the world's top performing managed currency fund during the ' 87 -' 91 period he ran it .< ref >

In its first year of establishment, the music festival is already seeing some of the world's top artists performing in the show.

ISD focused on the economic, political, and social development of " Third World " nations ; IES concentrated on the wise use and global conservation of natural resources ; AS examined the relationship between culture and the performing and visual arts ; and MCC focused on the variety of ways in which the world's diverse cultures, through their systems of religion, philosophy, and tradition, give meaning and purpose to human life, and to the world around us.

He has shared the stage with the world's greatest singers, including Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, and Placido Domingo, performing regularly with companies such as the Chicago Lyric, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Dallas, St. Louis, Kennedy Center and San Diego Operas.

Abildsø Farm, located on the lake's west side, was Norway's second farm school, and is where Minna Wetlesen started Europe's, and possibly the world's first " household "- school where girls and young women could learn about running a household and performing the various tasks related to it.

This group is performing comparative genomic and proteomic surveys of Antarctic phytoplankton, sampling and cataloging life in the world's oceans, providing tools for the research community to access all of the publicly available bacterial genome sequences to date, and sequencing the genomes of hundreds of individual marine microbes.

It was once the world's largest pharmaceutical company, and is credited with building the first modern pharmaceutical laboratory and developing the first systematic methods of performing clinical trials of new medications.

While checking on some suspicious activity at the plant institute per Nina's orders the team finds Momo, who has been performing experiments at the plant institute with Peco, who himself has been frequently visiting the great tree Yggdrasil, overseer of the world's forests.

Pedro Carneiro is one of the very few percussion players to have made an international career as a soloist, and has established himself as one of the world's foremost solo percussionists, performing regularly throughout Europe, the Asia and the United States.

In 1985, the BBC proclaimed that Black Lace was the world's hardest working band — performing more than 65 shows a month — but the punishing schedule meant that the group's equipment truck was involved in several accidents, and Black Lace chartered a private plane to meet TV schedules.

During her years at the Metropolitan Opera she was also a regular presence at the world's best opera houses, performing on the stages of La Scala, Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris, the Teatro Colón, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the San Francisco Opera to name just a few.