Almost everything in this earth is being ranked, especially when it comes to the most progressive companies. Usually, the higher the rank, the more successful a certain company is. When it comes to the airports all over the world, Dubai International Airport is one of the most progressive being ranked as the world’s 10th largest based on Airports Council International. Dubai has been on the 10th spot for 12 months now and steadily going strong because of its rise in passengers, from 13,759,320 to 16,227,528, which is an awesome 18% increase. Together with this increase was the 11% upsurge in freight, with its 751,575 tones of cargo. For this year alone the strongest statistics were during January and March with 2.83 million travelers.

As predicted by analysts, Toyota is fast gaining more ground against the world’s top automaker General Motors. In 2006, Toyota Motors Corporation sold an estimated 8.8 million vehicles, although it still has to release its final sales number by the end of January. This figure is still short of General Motors Corporation’s 9.09 million vehicles sold last year, which is a .9% reduction from the Detroit-based automaker’s 2005 sales.

The New Year is the high season for singers who participate in several parties and concerts to celebrate this big and important event. This year, artists raised their charges since Sherine for example got EGP 200,000 although she is banned from singing according to the syndicate’s resolution after her disagreement with her producer Nasr Mahrous. Another pop star like Hany Shaker took EGP 120,000, Dina the dancer got EGP 60,000 and she participated in 5 parties.

If you can't call, text!
This is the fact we're living with and the success behind the wonderful, can't live without, practical and fun service called SMS (Short Message Service).
As a word "successful" doesn't do it justice as a new study showed that text-messaging will double over the next few years.
Get this: In 2005 the number of messages sent to and from mobile phones was estimated at 936 billion, according to British market research group Gartner.

With much focus on Sony's PS3 release, we've forgotten to take a look at the most likely champion of the consoles. Nintendo Wii has sold over 600,000 units in only 8 days!
That's 75,000 a day or 3125 an hour or 52 a minute!!!!! (On an average scale of course)
The decisive factor was probably due to two things:
1- It's low cost in comparison to PS3s. Wii costs $250 which is about half the price of a PS3 even after discount!
2- There were simply more units to sell.

We all know that freedom of speech isn't really free.
And for those of you who think that no one owns democracy, you're dead wrong. Take a look at the handful of figures who own the American media.

Keith Rupert Murdoch
This guys owns FOX and a long long long list of others stuff, in short, he's worth some $8.2 billion.

Samuel Irving Jr. Newhouse And Donald Edward Newhouse
Ever thought of going into business with your brother? These guys did. The brothers now own Condé Nast, Parade and Fairchild among a long list of others. They're both worth about $14.6 billion.

Ma'an Al Nusoor, executive director for Jordan's investment board said that the kingdom is amongst the top 20 countries in the world to encourage foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2005.
Out of the 141 countries, Jordan came in at number 19 following countries like, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Luxembourg, Sudan and others.

Despite the historic rivalry between England and Farce which has gone on forever, according to a poll, one in five Britons wish they were born on the other side of the English Channel. In a survey of 1,010 people as part of the French Wines Week Report, Britons were apparently charmed by the so-called "Thierry Factor" -- the rise of high-profile French celebrities here, such as Arsenal striker Thierry Henry.

Meanwhile, just under a third, 32 percent, of Britons said they would prefer to live in France, with 23 percent choosing Britain as the ideal home.

I went to the bank the other day to check some loans for a new car. I told them I wanted about a million Euros.

They said no!

I was searching for a new car on the net and found the worlds most expensive cars on Forbs. Save up your money…you’re gonna need it!
Take a look at the 5 most expensive cars in the world.

Bugatti Veyron 16.4 from France
Price: €1,000,000 ($1,192,057)

Britain is home to some of the world's most luxurious and expensive restaurants.
When people usually think of British food, they think that it's the worst in the world....Oh how wrong they are.
A meal with a glass of wine in London could come up to $170 PER PERSON!!!
Today, Britain is considered to have top chefs and restaurants world-wild.
Prices in this list are for dinner, with one drink and tip, per person, as an estimate:

Tokyo: Awagawa $277

Paris: Arpege $211

Toronto: Eigensinn Farm $231

London Sketch- The Lecture Room and Library: $176

Zurich Petermann's Kunststuben: $151

1- William Gates: Bill’s only 50 and has 50 billion and lives in the United States. That’s a billion Per Year.

2- Warren Buffett: United States aged 75 has 42.0 billion

3- Carlos Slim Helu: lives in Mexico aged 66 has 30 billion

4- Ingvar Kamprad: Lives in Switzerland aged 79 has 28.0 billion

5- Lakshmi Mittal: From India aged 55, has 23.5 billion and lives in the United
Kingdom

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910!

The average man will eat 45,000 kilogram of food in his lifetime.

The real age of some Arab actors & singers is shocking!
Would you like to know a few?

- Adel Imam is 66
- Nadia Aljundi is 68
- Hussein Fahmi is 71
- Sabah is 81
- Faten Hamama is 76
- Majda Alroumi is 52