At a time when the world is struggling to get out of recession, it is just about the worst thing that could happen.

The third world is alive and struggling in the heart of the first.

He said: "The whole developed world is struggling with being over-indebted.

Sometimes it is my job to decide whether a world suffers alone or struggles in full knowledge.

The corporate world has long struggled to recruit qualified minority candidates.

And today that new world is struggling to be born.

The modern world had struggled free of the past.

You gorge on our resources while the world struggles to find food for the next meal.

No matter how the world struggled out of the present muck, with hard times attitudes would change.

"The world is always struggling to express itself," he went on.