Top 10 Countries with the Most Facebook Users 2011
| S.No | Country | Users |
| 1 | United States | 151 820 460 |
| 2 | Indonesia | 34 999 080 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 28 841 840 |
| 4 | Turkey | 26 198 200 |
| 5 | Philippines | 22 515 820 |
| 6 | India | 21 726 960 |
| 7 | Mexico | 21 560 720 |
| 8 | France | 20 957 320 |
| 9 | Italy | 18 355 680 |
| 10 | Canada | 17 357 660 |
Top 10 Pictures from International Space Station
Discovery approaches for docking@ International Space Station
Chile's From International Space Station
Necochea, Argentina From International Space Station
Cyclone Dianne forms off the northwest coast of Australia
Bahia Anegada, Argentina
Madrid, Spain
Moonrise View From International Space Station
The giant is awakened! Sicily and Mount Etna
Desert, Somalia
The Switzerland of the Middle East.
1. Japan
The Japanese are the world's hardest working people and only 33 per cent of the employees avail of all their allotted paid holidays.
The Japanese get 16 public holidays and work about 1,714 hours per year on an average.
2. Australia
Only 47 per cent Australian workers take all their allotted vacation days.
Australians get 8 federal holidays off, and clock an average of 1,690 hours per year
3. South Africa
Only 47.5 per cent of people take all their allotted vacation days.
South Africans get 12 government vacation days.
4. South Korea
In South Korea, only 53 per cent of the employees take all their allotted vacation days.
In South Korea, employees get 15 public holidays.
5. The United States
Only 57 per cent of people take all their allotted vacation days.
There are 10 government or public holidays that Americans enjoy.
In the US, employees work 1,768 hours per year on an average.
6. Canada
In Canada, only 58 per cent of the employed people take all their allotted vacation days.
Canada is slim on their holidays, with 9 federal holidays per year. Canadians clock an average of 1,699 hours per year.
7. India
About 58.5 per cent of people take all their allotted holidays.
Indians get 16 government holidays, and employers are required to give only 12 paid holidays.
8. Brazil
Just about 59 per cent Brazilian employees take all their allotted vacation days.
In Brazil, there are 11 federal holidays, and employers are required to offer 30 additional
9. Sweden
Only 63 per cent of people take all their allotted vacation days in Sweden.
The Swedes get 11 government holidays in a year, and work about 1,610 hours per year on an average
10. China
About 65 per cent of Chinese employees take all their allotted vacation days.
In China there are 11 government holidays, and organizations/companies have to give at least 10 vacation days to employees.
Top 10 Best Restaurants in the world 2011
People here we present the list of top ten best restaurants of the world, their grading is based on the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants which is the list produced by Restaurant Magazine. This magazine produces the annual list of top 50 restaurants in the world. And we have the top 10 of them here to share with you guys
Let us take a look!
They have the Daily menus with 9 courses of US cuisine. Their special meal is the Snake River Farm beef with crispy bone marrow and spring lamb with butter poached morels. The owners Thomas Keller and Jonathan Benno no doubt did the wonderful job in putting this restaurant awesome enough to be in top ten.
This restaurant is after the name of the owner Juan Mari Arzak. This restaurant is located in San Sebastian and the owner and his daughter are putting a great effort in making this restaurant better. The owner has been awarded the Universal Basque award for being highly innovative in his dishes. Their specialty is the Lobster with white olive oil and smoked white tuna figs and pine nuts.
It is located in manhattans Upper East Side. This is a French-American restaurant and they have the best menu for both vegetarians and carnivores.
Do try the dishes like American peanut butter and jelly sandwich served with bread wrapped round a grape on a specially made spike, You’ll know why is it in the top ten.
Due to the Massimo Bottura of this restaurant, it has come into the top 50 restaurants in the restaurant magazine. Bottura is an awesome looking dish with colors and texture to be loved. This restaurant has the walls with great artistic designs and foods.
Mugaritz is also in San Sebastian Spain. And the chef Andoni Aduriz is apprenticed at El Bulli. Their daily menu is full of mouth watering dishes like warm lettuce hearts soaked in vanilla brine, sheep’s milk curd seasoned with hay and toasted fern and beef roasted with embers of vine cutting.
The chefs Joan Roca, Josep and Jordi made this restaurant awesome. They have a large dining hall and a wine cellar that gives customer an audio and visual journey of five wine regions.
The Fat Duck restaurant has the most unusual dishes in their daily menus like Snail porridge, Sardine on toast sorbet, Bacon and egg ice cream and salmon poached with liquorices. They have the starter of jelly and beetroot. This restaurant scored the maximum in Good Food Guide.
Ferran Adria has worked a lot to put this restaurant in the top 50s, his knowledge has influenced a lot of other chefs. Many of them have taken his techniques and ideas to make their own restaurants.
Its specialty is the Nordic cuisine and has the classical Scandinavian cuisine with many great dishes. The Chef Rene Redzepi runs this restaurant and gave it the name by the acronym of two Danish words “nor” from Nordic and “ma” from food.
The Canadian city of Vancouver retained its reputation as the world's most liveable city in the Economist Intelligence Unit's annual survey. The cities were judged on parameters like stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. The following is the list of top 10 cities.
Vancouver
In this June 2003 photo, a jogger runs along the seawall in Stanley Park with the city skyline in the background.
In the picture above, office workers are seen heading to Flinders Street Station in central Melbourne.
Vienna
Skaters enjoy the annual "Wiener Eistraum" ice rink built in front of the City Hall during its opening in January 2011.
People play a game of pickup soccer in downtown Toronto.
The Pengrowth Saddledome stands as one of the icons of the Calgary, Alberta skyline. Calgary is home to the headquarters of Canada's oil industry.
Cafe in the square of the Three Blacksmiths, Helsinki.
An aerial view of Sydney's Opera House and Circular Quay in the city's central business district.
Perth
Kayakers paddle on the Swan River past the Perth city skyline.
Adelaide
A road can be seen through the McLaren Vale region in South Australia, 80 kilometres south-east of Adelaide in this December 2006 photo.
The sun goes down on Auckland as it approaches Earth Hour, March 27, 2010. The Earth Hour, when everyone is asked to turn off lights for an hour from 8.30 p.m. local time, is a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change. Viaduct Harbour is seen in the foreground, the Sky Tower at right.
Image credits: Reuters
