Compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, Russians are far less concerned about the potential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.

Just 3% of health care opponents cite abortion funding as their main reason for opposing legislation.

Given a list of 14 programs, for only two are more than 20% of Americans in favor of decreasing government spending.

About one-in-five Americans say the Democratic Party is unfriendly to religion.

Nearly half the country considers Hollywood unfriendly toward religion.

Though just a third of Turks have confidence in President Obama, that is up from 2008 when only 2% had faith in the American president.

Large majorities in every country surveyed say global warming is a serious problem, and majorities in 15 of the 25 countries say it is “very serious.”

Majorities or pluralities in 21 of 25 countries surveyed believe Obama will get the U.S. to take significant measures to control global climate change.

So far in 2009 Sarah Palin has been the year’s No. 5 newsmaker.