Iceland best place to live, Africa worst; US drops out of top 10

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:02 AM EST

Article Source: Yahoo! News

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....Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to an annual U.N. table published on Tuesday that again puts AIDS-afflicted sub-Saharan African states at the bottom.

Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada and Ireland the first five but the United States slipping to 12th place from eighth last year in the U.N. Human Development Index....

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I must admit I've never been to Iceland, but sounds like a place I ought to add to my places to visit one day.

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