Yesterday, the Pew Research center released its comprehensive 2008's Global Attitudes Project.

Beside a global economic gloom in the forecast, with China and India as notable exceptions, the report noted some positive changes for the perception of the US abroad.

Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the image of the US remains far less positive than it was before the war. However, the latest survey finds some encouraging signs for America's global image for the 1st time this decade.