The ten best passports to have: Number one is Sweden. The US passport has long been considered the most powerful passport in the world – until now.
GoEuro has analysed passports from 50 countries to discover which nationality’s passport is the most useful when travelling the globe with the results ranking the US passport at number five. Taking the top spot in GoEuro’s poll is the Swedish passport which allows its holders access to 174 countries and costs $43 to renew, only one hour’s work on minimum wage. The US passport in comparison costs $135 to renew, a total of 19 hours of work at minimum wage. Passports in numbers It costs how much? How many hours? Where can you go? To determine which factors would be use in ranking these passports GoEuro commissioned a poll to find out what contributes to a passport’s power.
Here is the list of the ten best passports to have 1) Sweden 2) Finland 3) Germany 4) UK 5) USA 6) Denmark 7) Canada 8) Spain 9) Belgium 10)The Netherlands. Swiss reign supreme in world happiness ranks. The Danes’ reign as the happiest nation on Earth has been usurped by Switzerland, but the Nordic nations still take up half of the top 10 places on an exhaustive and increasingly influential index of global wellbeing.
In the third World Happiness Report, now encompassing 158 nations, Denmark has slipped to third, behind both the Swiss and Iceland, with Norway, Finland and Sweden also near the top. The Mint countries: Next economic giants? In 2001 the world began talking about the Bric countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - as potential powerhouses of the world economy.
The term was coined by economist Jim O'Neill, who has now identified the "Mint" countries - Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey - as emerging economic giants. Here he explains why. So what is it about the so-called Mint countries that makes them so special? Why these four countries? A friend who has followed the Bric story noted sardonically that they are probably "fresher" than the Brics. This is the envy of many developed countries but also two of the Bric countries, China and Russia.
Something else three of them share, which Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena pointed out to me, is that they all have geographical positions that should be an advantage as patterns of world trade change.
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Writer and church historian Stephen Tomkins gives a 10-point tour of the underworld. 1. Hell is conical Hell, as Dante described it, consists of nine concentric circles, going deeper each time as they get smaller, towards the centre of the Earth. Which of the nine you are condemned to depends on your sin, with circles devoted to gluttons, heretics and fraudsters. 2. The modern cartoon image of Hell, with flames and pitchforks for everyone, is tragically bland compared with medieval depictions. 3.
In the Middle Ages, people generally thought of Hell as being underground, and there were legends of travellers seeing its smoke coming up through holes in the ground. 4. Actually it can be pretty sweltering, especially in Milton, who describes hills, caves, beaches and bogs of fire. 5. Hell is full of popes. 6. 7. 8. 9. What does Xi Jinping's China Dream mean? 6 June 2013Last updated at 00:40 Xi Jinping wants his citizens to aim high - but at what?
China and the US are global rivals - yet when it comes to inspirational appeal, China has no match for the American Dream. But that may be changing, as Beijing promotes Xi Jinping's new slogan - the China Dream. The BBC's Martin Patience asks what it means. In recent months Chinese state media have unleashed a propaganda blitz extolling the virtues of President Xi Jinping's China Dream. It has rarely been out of the newspapers. A leading think-tank - the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - has also called for proposals to research the dream. China's new President Xi Jinping: A man with a dream.
China's new President, Xi Jinping, says he is a man with a dream, which he calls "the China Dream".
His ambition, he's indicated in speeches in recent weeks, is to lead a Chinese renaissance so China can resume its rightful place in the world. Confirmed as China's new head of state, Mr Xi is now one of the most powerful leaders on the planet. He can, if he wishes, influence the destiny of hundreds of millions of people, inside and outside China. He can try to shape history. So will he? China isn't a democracy, it's a one-party, authoritarian state.
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