New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are among the top five least corrupt nations, according to a new survey released by Transparency International. Canada is in the top ten. Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan are the most corrupt.

Who says beauty is in the eye of the beholder? A website says that British men and women are the ugliest people in the world but then who are the world's most beautiful people?

Vladimir Putin, the former President of the Russian Federation and current Prime Minister, told the European Union he wants them to help Ukraine pay the gas bill by giving them a loan.

CBS News recently reported that if you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or Swine Flu in recent months, the odds are you didn't have it.

There are reports from Sweden of possible deaths linked to the H1N1 vaccine; unconfirmed and unwelcome news which will surely complicate the very busy flu season that has descended on most of the northern hemisphere.

What do Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden have in common, except for cold winters? These Nordic countries, of all nations in the world, have the smallest equality gap between men and women.

Animal activists struck at least four different fur farms in Spain and France earlier in October, releasing approximately 20,000 of the animals. Some mink were recaptured.

It's a good time to be a bunny. A contest in which children toss dead rabbits for distance has been a tradition in Waiau, New Zealand for decades. It has been canceled this year.

The Danish government has just approved the building of a pipeline through it's waters which will supply Germany with natural gas directly from Russia. The project has evoked criticism.

U.K. Chancellor Alistair Darling has blocked an attempt by Sweden, which currently holds the E.U. presidency, to reach an agreement for the creation of a regulatory body for the banking sector within the European Union's 27 member states.