For all four countries, reaching the final would represent a breakthrough.
PLAN's model has spread to 40 organizations in nine countries, reaching tens of thousands of families.
This model of microcredits has been imitated in more than 80 countries, reaching 100 million people worldwide.
In soccer, the entire English Premier League season is broadcast in more than 200 countries, reaching 643 million households.
Already, simply by visiting Ukraine and Georgia, he added, Mr. Biden is making it clear that the United States will still respond to post-Soviet countries reaching out.
With more than 500 athletes under contract, the UFC stages roughly 40 events per year and is broadcast in more than 150 countries, reaching 1.1bn television households.
Directly or through national news agencies, it provided service to most countries, reaching virtually all the world's leading newspapers and many thousands of smaller ones.
More than 75 performers have gone to 13 countries reaching a quarter of a million people since Project Troubador's first outing to Belize and Guatemala in 1978, Mr. Osborn said.
With interest in both countries reaching fever pitch, officials have talked up the possibility of a world record crowd cramming into the 100,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground for the first day's play on Sunday.
From Dubai, it flies to more than 100 destinations in over 60 countries, reaching every continent.Sheikh Ahmed, Emirates' chairman and chief executive, described the last financial year as the airline's "toughest".
As one adviser put it: "They were very uncomfortable; they actually felt ashamed of the arguments they were using .As long as Spain and Poland were holding out over voting rights, the prospect of EU member countries reaching agreement on the constitution remained remote and there was no urgent reason to press for a change in policy.
