Costa Rica

See The New York Times “The 31 Places to Go in 2010” list bellow

1. Sri Lanka

2. Patagonia Wine Production Centers

3. Seoul 4. Mysore-India

5. Copenhagen

6. Koh Kood-Thailand

7. Damascus

8. Çeşme

9. Antarctica

10. Leipzig

11. Los Angeles

12. Shanghai

13. Mumbai

14. Minorca-Spain

15. Costa Rica

16. Marrakech

17. Las Vegas

18. Bahia-Brazil

19. Istanbul

20. Şenzhen-China

21. Macedonia

22. South Africa

23. Breckenridge

24. Montenegro

25. Vancouver Island

26. Colombia

27. Kitzbühel-Austria

28. Norway

29. Gargano-Italy

30. Kuala Lumpur

31. Nepal
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The 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index Table Rankings based on various factors:

1 Finland

2 Switzerland

3 Sweden

4 Denmark

5 Norway

6 Australia

7 Canada

8 Netherlands

9 United States

10 New Zealand

11 Ireland

12 United Kingdom

13 Belgium

14 Germany

15 Austria

16 Japan

17 France

18 Hong Kong

19 Spain

20 Slovenia

21 Italy

22 Portugal

23 Singapore

24 Taiwan

25 Czech Republic

26 South Korea

27= Israel

27= Hungary

29 Poland

30 Greece

31 Estonia

32 Costa Rica

33 Uruguay

34 Slovakia

35 Croatia

36 Chile

37 Latvia

38 Argentina

39 Malaysia

40 Trinidad and Tobago

41 Brazil

42 Panama

43 Mexico

44 Thailand

45 India

DEFINITION: Total recorded intentional homicides, completed. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.

SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

(Mod Update : Qatar is ranked 81 on the list with only 1 homicide. That's one list we're glad that Qatar is on the bottom of! Full list here)

This is a strange one.. At first I thought it was something to do with Hippies and the looney left, but reading the blurb, I know its a lot of wishy washy stuff.

Happy Happy will be pleased to know that Egypt came 12th, whilst the UK was in 74th place..

Perhaps you disagree... check out the website :http://www.happyplanetindex.org/

(UPI) -- Costa Rica tops the "Happy Planet Index," a ranking of ecological efficiency among the world's nations, survey officials say.

Costa Ricans reported the highest life satisfaction and have an average life expectancy second only to Canada, said a release from the New Economics Foundation, a British think tank that promotes ecology and sustainable economics.

OK.. So here’s a thought..
We’ve complained loud and hard about the situation in Iran, but no one has uttered a word about what happened in Honduras.

A democratically elected president has been overthrown……
The President of Honduras was ousted in a military coup yesterday when troops arrested him in his pyjamas and sent him into exile in neighbouring Costa Rica.

The military action against President Zelaya, the country’s most popular President in recent history, raised fears of widespread violence as supporters took to the streets, throwing stones at army lorries and shouting: “Traitors! Traitors!”

Hamad Medical Corporation
Daily update bulletin on A(H1N1) Influenza

Qatar is free of A(H1N1) influenza and has no suspected cases under investigation

6 May 2009 -- As of 16:00 GMT, 6 May 2009, 23 countries have officially reported 1893 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection.

Mexico has reported 942 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 29 deaths. The United States has reported 642 laboratory confirmed human cases, including two deaths.

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