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.”

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.

Nearly half the country considers Hollywood unfriendly toward religion.

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

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

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

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

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