But if I was to characterise the acts who were in those waves of success, they were guitar bands; rock acts, plugging into the worldwide surge in popularity of rock and metal of the time.

A worldwide surge in investment has helped to power Germany's strong first-half growth.

Citing a worldwide surge in tire sales, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company reported yesterday that fourth-quarter profit jumped 21 percent.

In the last year, a worldwide surge in demand for copper, largely from construction booms in China and India, has pushed up its value.

Last night, in response to a worldwide surge in interest, the OPERA experiment released a paper that describes the experiments that appear to show neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light.

The meeting is a direct response to the worldwide surge in anti-Semitic violence.

With these changes, Ghana is belatedly trying to catch up with a worldwide surge in gold production.

Let us pay tribute to the courage of the Haitian people and the worldwide surge of popular solidarity towards the victims.

There was an immediate and worldwide surge of interest.

A number of studies have suggested that the carbon dioxide increases of the last few years are stimulating a worldwide surge of plant growth.