There's the continent Africa.

They also aspire to increase the Continent s strategic power.

The Japan Sea separates Japan from the Asian Continent.

Few people know about Mauritania, that African state.

Roma are the continent's fastest growing and most vulnerable minority.

The global economic crisis threatens the progress in my country and elsewhere on our continent.

So there is much at stake for the old continent.

This dual decline was a subject frequently discussed by historians across the continent.

And the US continues to be the largest foreign investor on the continent.

This project is a key element of energy security of the whole European continent.

It is one of the few cities honored with the title of the Hero City.

Eduardo Galeano, one of the most important writers of our continent, has died.

The continent s Mediterranean neighbors look to Europe as their natural partner.

Only Cuba holds out against the continent's push toward democracy and open economies.

A whole continent written off we do not have to stand for this.

The Central African Republic is quite singular in the African landscape, because of the nature of its infighting.

Indeed, boosting its energy capacity will be critical to unleashing the continent's economic and human potential.

Even Bolivia s government should not be regarded as a reincarnation of the continent s old populism.

It also filled a geopolitical vacuum at the heart of the continent, placing a check on Germany and Russia.

The power at the center of Europe should never again become a threat to the continent or itself.

Without an inflow of new blood and new ideas, the old Continent's economic future looks bleak.

Trade within Asia now accounts for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.

The continent's largest petroleum companies, and equipment suppliers, are ready to invest what is needed to reduce CO 2 emissions.

Antarctica, on average, is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.

Instead, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hijacked the Quito meeting to propagate his Bolivarian Revolution and expound his own ideas for the continent s future as independent of the United States.

History will have many tales to tell about what this really meant for the Continent.

Despite the continent s failure to agree on the principle, the idea of an early warning system deserves attention. Today there may be little that the hemispheric community can do about the situation in Bolivia, and yet it is fraught with danger for everyone.

Young people in the EU s new members feel themselves to be citizens of a prosperous and secure continent.

But growing concern about the peril of climate change could help save some of this continent s lush forests.

This new reality also demands a different type of diplomacy one that recognizes the diverse interests of the continent. For example, an emerging power such as Brazil wants more respect on the world stage.

Despite the continent s failure to agree on the principle, the idea of an early warning system deserves attention.

This new reality also demands a different type of diplomacy one that recognizes the diverse interests of the continent.

We use the media to highlight and get our stories told.

Africa is more worried about a slowdown in China, it s biggest trading partner by far.

The Swahili language, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.

That hardly seems a rational policy for a continent in profound transition.

Was she prescient about the problems of European monetary union, or did she leave Britain isolated on the fringes of the continent?

But these trade offs must be made if Europe s military is to meet the Continent s security needs.

The competition is organized by global grassroots endeavor Seven Natural Wonders and at this point includes 12 sites from across the African continent.

An integrated, continent wide energy strategy, linked to national policies for growth would, indeed, go a long way toward addressing this important need.

The best news of the year is that, at long last, the Continent's consumers seem to be emerging from their long depression.

Europe's leaders meet in Copenhagen this week to unite our continent in peaceful cooperation.

But that is not the case for the United Kingdom, and London remains the continent s biggest financial center, by far.

There is, sad to say, a lack of sincerity on the part of governments across this continent when it comes time to give people the right to choose.

As the number of cases in West Africa rises, so does the potential for outbreaks outside of that context.