Brings together complete content from the Facts on File World News Digest and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about current events, issues, statistics and personalities over the last 40 years.

Also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the Facts On File archive.

Content has been drawn from six databases:

• Issues and Controversies on File
• Today's Science on File
• Editorials on File
• Reuters On-Line News Service
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts
• The World Almanac Encyclopedia

Offers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980