List of Countries that require their Leader to belong to a certain Religion

Source: In 30 countries, heads of state must belong to a certain religion | Pew Research Center

1. Christian

• Andorra
• Lebanon

2. Muslim

1. Afghanistan
2. Algeria
3. Brunei
4. Iran
5. Jordan
6. Malaysia
7. Maldives
8. Mauritania
9. Morocco
10. Oman
11. Pakistan
12. Qatar
13. Saudi Arabia
14. Somalia
15. Syria
16. Tunisia
17. Yemen

3. Buddhist

• Bhutan
• Thailand

4. Pancasila

• Indonesia

Top 20 global leaders with the longest names

Source & Thanks: World Political Heads and Foreign Premiers | News | The Guardian

State	Head of state	Name count
Madagascar	Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina Rakotoarimanana	44
Bhutan	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck	27
Argentina	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	27
Kuwait	Sabah AlAhmad AlJaber AlSabah	26
Guinea Bissau	Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo	26
Equatorial Guinea	Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo	26
Turkmenistan	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	24
United Arab Emirates	Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan	23
Andorra	Joan Enric Vives Sicília	22
Indonesia	Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	22

State	Head of government	Name count
Qatar	Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani	34
Samoa	Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi	31
Kuwait	Jaber AlMubarak AlHamad AlSabah	28
United Arab Emirates	Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	26
Iceland	Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson	26
Mauritania	Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf	25
Djibouti	Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed	23
Swaziland	Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini	23
Tonga	Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō	23
Chad	Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet	21
Vanuatu	Moana Carcasses Kalosil	21

The World’s Best Countries in Science

 

Source: The World’s Best Countries in Science: Scientific American

A: RESEARCH PAPERS: Score, on a 100-point scale, based on science papers in top journals (Digital Science, 2011)
B: PATENTS ISSUED: Number of patents (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011)
C: EXPENDITURE: Gross domestic expenditure on research and development (2009*)
D: HIGHER EDUCATION: Number of science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded (2009*)

	RESEARCH PAPERS	PATENTS ISSUED	EXPENDITURE	HIGHER EDUCATION
	1. U.S.	1. U.S.	1. U.S.	1. U.S.
	2. Germany	2. Japan	2. China	2. Germany
	3. China	3. South Korea	3. Japan	3. U.K.
	4. Japan	4. Germany	4. Germany	4. Japan
	5. U.K.	5. Taiwan	5. France	5. France
	6. France	6. Canada	6. U.K.	6. Italy
	7. Canada	7. France	7. Russian Fed.	7. Brazil
	8. South Korea	8. U.K.	8. Italy	8. Canada
	9. Italy	9. China	9. Canada	9. Spain
	10. Spain	10. Italy	10. Spain	10. Australia
	11. Switzerland	11. Australia	11. Australia	11. Sweden
	12. Australia	12. Israel	12. Sweden	12. Switzerland
	13. Netherlands	13. Netherlands	13. Netherlands	13. Poland
	14. India	14. Switzerland	14. Switzerland	14. Netherlands
	15. Taiwan	15. Sweden	15. Austria	15. Turkey
	16. Israel	16. India	16. Turkey	16. Portugal
	17. Singapore	17. Finland	17. Israel	17. Czech Reublic
	18. Sweden	18. Belgium	18. Belgium	18. Austria
	19. Belgium	19. Austria	19. Finland	19. Belgium
	20. Denmark	20. Denmark	20. Denmark	20. Mexico
	21. Austria	21. Singapore	21. Mexico	21. Finland
	22. Russian Fed.	22. Hong Kong	22. Poland	22. Israel
	23. Hong Kong	23. Spain	23. South Africa	23. Slovakia
	24. Brazil	24. Norway	24. Norway	24. Denmark
	25. Finland	25. Ireland	25. Portugal	25. Greece

9 Foreign Terrorist Organizations that should NOT be there in the USA Terrorism Watch

Source: When is a terrorist no longer a terrorist? | FP Passport

• The Abu Nidal Organization — a PLO splinter group — was a major terrorist organization in the 1980s and 1990s, but has barely been heard from since Abu Nidal’s death in 2002.

 

• Aum Shinriyko, the Japanese cult that carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, hasn’t carried out any attacks since.

 

• ETA — the decades-old Basque nationalist group, is thought to have fewer than 100 active members since hundreds were arrested by French and Spanich police, and hasn’t carried out a major attack since 2009.

 

• The Continuity Irish Republican Army may have fewer than 50 members, and these days spends more time on political infighting than planning attacks.

 

• Gama’a al-Islamiyya  was once Egypt’s largest terrorist group and it’s former spiritual leader, “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman is in jail in the U.S. for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, but the group has largely renounced violence since the early 2000s and now has its own political party with seats in the Egyptian parliament.

 

• The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were decimated by a Sri Lankan army offensive in 2009 and despite reports of regrouping abroad, the Tigers haven’t been able to mount any major operations since.

 

• The Morrocan Islamic Combatant Group was one of the organizations implicated in the 2004 Madrid train bombings but hasn’t been heard from since.

 

• Revolutionary Organization 17 November,  a leftist Greek militant group that targed U.S. and NATO targets in the 1980s and ’90s, hasn’t carried out any attacks since 2002.

 

• United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — a right-wing paramilitary anti-FARC group — was mostly demobilized in 2010 and the elements of it that remain are more of a drug trafficking organization than a terrorist militia.

Best and Worst 10 countries: The Web Index

Thanks : http://thewebindex.org/data/all/webindex/

WEB INDEX TOP 10

1. Sweden
2. United States
3. United Kingdom
4. Canada
5. Finland
6. Switzerland
7. New Zealand
8. Australia
9. Norway
10. Ireland

WEB INDEX BOTTOM 10

1. Nepal
2. Cameroon
3. Mali
4. Bangladesh
5. Namibia
6. Ethiopia
7. Benin
8. Burkino Faso
9. Zimbabwe
10. Yemen

Till India

 

Rank	Country	Web Index	Impact	Economic	Political	Social	Readiness	Communications	Institutional	The Web	Use	Content
Rank	Country	Web Index	Impact	Economic	Political	Social	Readiness	Communications	Institutional	The Web	Use	Content
1	Sweden	100	100	89.36	100	98.5	96.76	97.11	93.61	82.02	78.67	73.66
2	United States of America	97.31	91.07	81.14	92.54	89.13	94.98	82.57	100	100	87.01	100
3	United Kingdom	93.83	87.86	88.28	78.85	86.42	94.07	92.33	92.51	94.69	80.25	97.24
4	Canada	93.42	90.64	84.56	75.94	100	84.17	81.03	84.57	92.22	83.39	88.61
5	Finland	91.88	86.44	79.3	87.29	83.26	95.78	90.65	96.17	88.53	89.27	74.32
6	Switzerland	90.49	83.55	98.36	70.84	72.82	94.85	96.94	90.83	92.18	97.3	72.26
7	New Zealand	89.15	83.66	68.16	82.0	91.05	90.66	78.74	95.85	89.07	77.1	89.64
8	Australia	88.44	83.91	69.6	81.77	90.61	88.12	82.35	89.75	87.08	75.39	87.65
9	Norway	87.76	83.59	77.79	72.14	90.95	93.43	94.83	89.99	80.26	80.28	68.25
10	Ireland	87.42	84.45	100	65.82	78.29	84.48	76.82	87.68	83.61	75.98	80.0
11	Singapore	86.14	77.92	69.69	95.33	62.06	93.55	99.42	87.3	90.99	77.87	92.6
12	Iceland	86.1	76.67	67.1	65.93	88.08	100	100	96.72	89.3	100	63.31
13	Korea, Republic of	81.06	82.38	71.94	85.82	80.61	78.06	85.44	72.55	65.56	59.29	63.29
14	France	78.93	78.82	78.88	75.13	74.4	73.95	80.35	69.49	70.67	62.93	69.29
15	Israel	78.53	77.15	77.24	80.17	66.85	77.34	76.53	77.03	71.27	65.31	67.72
16	Germany	74.87	67.23	72.36	54.3	68.58	81.01	85.63	76.9	83.09	81.05	73.03
17	Portugal	72.33	66.68	52.58	73.67	67.79	73.66	74.25	72.88	79.2	73.27	74.31
18	Spain	72.12	66.97	63.4	72.62	59.45	79.18	73.85	81.49	72.4	63.62	71.96
19	Chile	69.55	71.82	63.59	76.91	68.31	65.86	61.23	69.18	55.81	43.58	62.1
20	Japan	68.56	64.5	69.15	42.62	74.99	71.24	80.19	65.48	70.4	58.46	73.98
21	Qatar	60.75	62.43	69.15	41.27	70.67	64.16	70.66	60.7	46.06	52.37	32.24
22	Mexico	57.68	58.57	47.13	70.25	54.32	48.95	50.04	50.53	57.25	40.87	68.17
23	Italy	56.45	48.6	42.39	47.33	53.08	67.22	70.76	65.29	68.19	66.52	60.11
24	Brazil	56.3	57.96	56.23	48.21	64.41	56.62	58.01	57.18	46.01	36.37	50.86
25	Poland	54.84	46.01	50.99	37.55	47.1	66.04	65.74	66.64	70.02	63.22	67.64
26	Colombia	53.86	55.75	41.23	66.34	55.86	50.24	49.55	52.79	47.15	38.46	50.71
27	Turkey	53.7	54.46	45.98	51.05	62.01	55.23	57.54	55.36	46.25	39.12	48.14
28	Kazakhstan	53.46	51.36	45.23	51.7	53.82	44.99	54.88	41.5	64.16	54.83	65.7
29	China	51.72	55.04	53.27	32.27	73.98	45.55	58.0	40.39	43.34	33.67	48.67
30	Tunisia	50.68	54.06	46.62	49.31	61.92	45.5	56.75	41.1	41.61	31.44	47.8
31	Russian Federation	47.29	43.79	38.49	56.86	35.1	47.71	61.2	41.67	57.16	45.1	63.05
32	Philippines	46.81	48.37	48.98	33.56	58.95	48.26	47.41	51.12	39.39	34.64	39.61
33	India	46.58	51.08	62.19	41.06	46.99	44.14	44.58	46.64	33.0	19.88	44.05

Clinical Trial Deaths: Top Countries and New Drug Guinea Pig Patients

India is just one of many developing countries used by leading Western pharmaceutical companies, which spent £40bn in 2010 on research and development. Globally, it is estimated around 120,000 trials are taking place in 178 countries.

India

1. 668 deaths were reported in 2010
2. 438 in 2011
3. 211 deaths till June 2012

In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said a total of 1,954 persons died from 2009 till June 2012 due to “serious adverse events of death” in clinical trials.

1. South Korea – 2,861
2. China – 2,520
3. Taiwan – 2,367
4. Brazil – 2,521
5. Russia – 1,776
6. India – 1,727
7. Mexico – 1,488
8. South Africa – 1,346
9. Argentina – 1,223
10. Puerto Rico – 1,231
11. Thailand – 958
12. Turkey – 893
13. Romania (876)
14. Ukraine – 722
15. Chile – 663
16. Peru (494)
17. Phillipines – 487
18. Iran – 387
19. Egypt – 274
20. Uganda – 163
21. Malawi (61)
22. Kazakhstan (15)

FBI’s National Security Threat List: Who’s on the NSL?

The FBI’s National Security List (NSL) has two parts, the Issues Threat List (activities that get you on the list) and the classified Country Threat List (states whose activities are “so hostile, or of such concern” that investigations are warranted).

1. Russia
2. China
3. Syria
4. North Korea
5. Iran
6. Belarus
7. Cuba
8. Sudan
9. Democratic Republic of the Congo
10. Republic of the Congo
11. Somalia
12. Myanmar (Burma)
13. Bosnia
14. Vietnam
15. Libya
16. Côte d’Ivoire/Ivory Coast

Classified Country Threat List

1. Japan
2. Israel
3. France
4. South Korea
5. Taiwan
6. India
7. UK
8. Germany
9. Netherlands
10. Belgium
11. Canada
12. Iraq
13. South Yemen

The Global Gender Gap 2011 Rankings – Top 20

Thanks: http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-2011/

India

Gender Gap Index 2011 Rank (out of 135 countries)
#113
Score (0.00 = inequality, 1.00 = equality)
0.619

Key Indicators
Total population (millions) 1,170.94
Population growth (%) 1.34
GDP (US$ billions) 971.49
GDP (PPP) per capita 3,240

The Global Gender Gap 2011 Rankings – Top 20
Country	2011	Score*	2010	Change
Iceland	1	85.3%	1	0	→
Norway	2	84.0%	2	0	→
Finland	3	83.8%	3	0	→
Sweden	4	80.4%	4	0	→
Ireland	5	78.3%	6	1	↑
New Zealand	6	78.1%	5	-1	↓
Denmark	7	77.8%	7	0	→
Philippines	8	76.9%	9	1	↑
Lesotho	9	76.7%	8	-1	↓
Switzerland	10	76.3%	10	0	→
Germany	11	75.9%	13	2	↑
Spain	12	75.8%	11	-1	↓
Belgium	13	75.3%	14	1	↑
South Africa	14	74.8%	12	-2	↓
Netherlands	15	74.7%	17	2	↑
United Kingdom	16	74.6%	15	-1	↓
United States	17	74.1%	19	2	↑
Canada	18	74.1%	20	2	↑
Latvia	19	74.0%	18	-1	↓
Cuba	20	73.9%	24	4	↑
* Scores produced on zero-to-one scale and can be roughly interpreted as percentage of gender gap that has been closed.

Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Poll results on The worst and best G20 countries for women

Full coverage: G20women.trust.org

 

1. Canada
2. Germany
3. Britain
4. Australia
5. France
6. United States
7. Japan
8. Italy
9. Argentina
10. South Korea
11. Brazil
12. Turkey
13. Russia
14. China
15. Mexico
16. South Africa
17. Indonesia
18. Saudi Arabia
19. India