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.

According to BIS, the combined turnover in the world's derivatives exchanges totaled USD 344 trillion during Q4 2005.

Then-NYSE CEO John Thain, who was to head NYSE Euronext, intended to use the combination to form the world's first global stock market, with continuous trading of stocks and derivatives over a 21-hour time span.

According to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, 80 % of the world's top 500 companies as of April 2003 used interest rate derivatives to control their cashflows.

It is designed to fix a price for settling contracts between members of the London bullion market, but informally the gold fixing provides a recognized rate that is used as a benchmark for pricing the majority of gold products and derivatives throughout the world's markets.

SIX Swiss Exchange is the joint owner of Eurex, the world's largest futures and derivatives exchange along with their German partners Deutsche Börse.

Eurex is one of the world's leading derivatives exchanges, providing European benchmark derivatives featuring open and low-cost electronic access globally.

As the Asian market was focused Eurex and Osaka Securities Exchange signed a memorandum of understanding to verify possibilities of cooperation ; Singapore-based traders could now trade directly on the world's largest derivatives exchange Eurex.

Eurex has introduced the world's first exchange-traded credit derivatives contracts on March 27. Credit derivatives offer market participants the opportunity to hedge against credit events such as corporate defaults, failure to pay or restructuring:

Informally, the gold fixing provides a recognized rate that is used as a benchmark for pricing the majority of gold products and derivatives throughout the world's markets.

* 2008 – " Bloody Friday " saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10 % in most indices.

Out-of-band signaling is used in Signalling System No. 7 ( SS7 ), the standard for signaling among exchanges that have controlled most of the world's phone calls for over twenty years.

The TSE runup from 1983 to 1990 was unprecedented, in 1990 it accounted for over 60 % of the world's stock market capitalization ( by far the world's largest ) before falling precipitously in value and rankings today, but still remains one of the 3 largest exchanges in the world by market capitalization of listed shares.

Research partnerships and exchanges have also been established with some of the world's leading universities.

It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, many high-tech industries, and Israel's tallest building, the Moshe Aviv Tower.

The two-hour lunch break between the morning and afternoon sessions was the longest among the world's 20 major stock exchanges.

It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges.

The country is one of the world's largest and most influential financial markets, home to major stock and commodities exchanges like NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX, CME, and PHLX.

* International Petroleum Exchange, one of the world's largest energy futures and options exchanges

The company, which leveraged technological innovations and quantitative models, was one of the world's premier market-making firms, trading on 28 exchanges in nine countries.

With the publication of his post-graduate thesis at MIT in 1971 ( which included a description of " floating exchanges ") and the Nixon Shock of that same year which eradicated the Bretton Woods system by unhinging the US dollar value from its gold standard and inaugurated the new era of universal floating exchanges ( previous to that time the only " floating exchanges " involved some exotic currencies in Latin America ), the fledgling management consultant suddenly found himself to be at the center of the financial world's attention.

The International Petroleum Exchange, based in London, was one of the world's largest energy futures and options exchanges.

Only one percent of the world's population, with the help of their capital, they terrorize the world stock exchanges, world opinion, and world politics.

Commenting on the scrapping of the uptick rule, The Economist reported that " short-sellers argue was largely symbolic, and it remains in place at only a few of the world's big stock exchanges.

By 1977 the system had won sales with half the world's major stock exchanges.