LONDON — You may assume that the most luxurious and expensive hotel suites in the world are impossible to book or are filled with VIP guests and celebrities. However, this isn't the case.

Online booking site Suiteness gives members access to reserve over 20,000 of the most exclusive — and expensive — hotel suites in top cities around the world, including London, Las Vegas, New York, and Los Angeles.

The company teams up with hand-picked hotel partners, such as the Four Seasons, Park Hyatt, and Shangri-La, with over half of the rooms exclusively available to Suiteness.

CEO Robbie Bhathal told Business Insider that luxury hotels usually don't offer their most exclusive seats to deal-centric booking websites, making Suiteness unique, as it operates as a sign-in members-only platform so that the hotels "know it's the right type of customer."

"Hotels don't want to give them the next level up — it's like putting a Toyota dealership next to a Porsche dealership," he said.

He added that Suiteness is targeting young families, special occasion bookings, "people with higher disposable income, or those who would rather spend an extra £100 to £150 a night to get something where you can be all together."

According to TechCrunch, most hotel suites are only occupied about 20% of the time, meaning Suiteness has access to luxury suites that most people didn't even know existed, or were possible to book.

"We've grown tenfold over the last year," Bhathal said. "We're really trying to create something in a market that's not existing right now. We're onto something unique and we want to build it the right way."

We tested out the service for a one night stay in London to see if the suite life is really worth the splurge.

Scroll down to see what it's like to use Suiteness to stay like a star in one of the world's most luxurious hotel suites, complete with a butler and private concierge.

This is one of over 20,000 rooms you can book on Suiteness, the booking site that only deals with hotel suites, and allows you to access some of the most exclusive — and expensive — ones in the world.

CEO Robbie Bhathal launched the company in 2014 alongside co-founder Kyle Killion (previously of the Geek Squad and Yelp) in an effort to find a solution for families with children looking for a place to stay together while still maintaning a high quality standard.

"We found so much demand for this type of room," CEO Robbie Bhathal told Business Insider. "There are a lot of five bedroom houses or hotel rooms with a king or queen bed, but we wanted more than that."

We tried it out in London to see how the experience compares to a normal hotel stay.

In December 2015 the company announced $1 million in funding led by Structure Capital, the first investor in Uber, which allowed them to land big partnerships and expand around the world.

“It’s our mission to make booking a suite as easy as getting an Uber," Killion has previously said.

After creating a free account on the members only site, there were a number of options — from junior suite to penthouse, £300 to £6,550 — available at a range of top hotels in London, presented in both a visual and map format.

A new member joins the site every three minutes, and the company plans to double the number of cities it operates in over the next 12 to 18 months.

Bhathal said the company works with "a specifc sub group"— luxury — so that their hotel partners feel they can control their brand, and get data on relevant customers so they can serve them better.

It is challenging and exhausting being romantically involved with a narcissist, but they can also cause havoc when they leave. Break ups are always hard, but when you've been in a relationship with someone who uses others and is obsessed with themselves, it can be even harder.

On the surface, narcissists can seem charming, engaging and charismatic, which can make them difficult to leave in the first place.

Dr Judith Orloff, a clinical psychiatrist at the University of California Los Angeles, wrote in a recent blog post on Psychology Today that narcissists can make you "fall in love with them so hard that it feels like you're giving up a part of your heart to leave them," because they're very good at becoming the center of your universe while you're with them.

Here's what to expect if you break up with a narcissist.

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If they're the ones to break it off, it can feel brutal and sudden.

One minute you may feel like everything your partner has ever wanted, and the next you're left wandering what on Earth went wrong. This is because narcissists are great at playing a part while they're getting something from their source, according to Orloff. But when they're done using you, they have no difficulty in casting you aside like a used tissue.

There will be no apologies or remorse, and you may well never hear from them again, regardless of how long your relationship was. If they do return, it will be because they've realized they can get something from you.

If you're the one who chose to leave, on the other hand, be prepared for begging, pleading or bargaining.

If you're the one who chose to leave, good for you because Orloff says that's hard to do. They are likely to give you the fight of your life because they're not done with you yet. Narcissists hate losing their supply, so they won't let you go easily.

Prepare for them to promise "to change." They might suddenly start doing things for you that you'd been complaining about. They may say "you'll be lost without me," or "you'll never find someone like me."

Don't listen, Orloff advises. It's just a trick to get you to come back to them out of fear.

What next? Establish no contact.

No contact is exactly what it sounds like: no contact whatsoever. That means blocking their number, making sure any emails from their address go into your spam folder, and deleting them off social media. This is tough, but mental health counselor Dr Stephanie Sarkis explains in a blog post on Psychology today that it's the best option because sooner or later the narcissist will find a way to return.

The narcissist will try to contact you if you cut off their supply, and they know just what to say to make you come back. So you have to be brutal, and fast. It may be best to break up with them over text also, so they can't manipulate you any further.

If you left something at the narcissist's house, Sarkis adds, you should just leave it and let it go. Consider it a very small price to pay for your own sanity and well-being.

JK Rowling is a wordsmith, better, she's a wizard of words.

She's made millions, maybe even a billion (according to Fortune) out of her words. Her seemingly endless creativity has produced an entire universe that is adored the world over.

In short, Rowling is aptly armed to dispatch even the most loquacious Twitter-user.

Over the years, Rowling has entertained us not just with her literature but her brutal Twitter takedowns.

These are some of her best:

The time she laid a snare for Piers Morgan

The Twitter feud between JK Rowling and Piers Morgan is one of Potter vs Voldemort proportions. In this battle, though, Rowling cast a perfect expelliarmus on her opponent with an ingenious piece of bait, which Morgan couldn't resist.

The "Good Morning Britain" host stepped straight on Rowling's landmine. The touching message from her fan was, in fact, Morgan's own words. The former Daily Mirror editor had written glowingly about the author in a Daily Mail column in 2010, headlined: "The 100 British celebrities who really matter by Piers Morgan." 

Morgan claimed he was in on the joke but we're not buying it.

The time she gave US Vice President Mike Pence a biblical reminder

Mike Pence's hypocrisy was put on display in cutting fashion after President Trump signed an executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. 

The time she defended Voldemort — 'nowhere near as bad' as Donald Trump

In case you're not familiar with Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort was a seriously bad dude. He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of wizards, including Potter's parents. Not to mention, Voldemort's wand gave Potter his iconic lightning bolt scar when he was just a baby. 

In an Entertainment Weekly article from 2000, J.K. Rowling said Voldemort was "a raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people's suffering, and there ARE people like that in the world."

Not a great comparison for Trump.

Hollywood’s biggest night, the Academy Awards ceremony, goes down on Sunday. After months of talk about the movies lining up to be the frontrunners and millions of dollars spent by studios to campaign for them, we will finally get some closure.

“La La Land” leads the field with a record-tying 14 nominations, and we expect it to take home many of those Oscars. However, there are titles like “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures” that could play spoilers.

Then there’s the best actor category, which is shaping up to be one of the night’s most interesting toss-ups, as the prize will either go to Casey Affleck for “Manchester by the Sea” or Denzel Washington for “Fences.”

Here are our predictions of who will win the 2017 Oscars and who could win:

The Academy Awards air on ABC Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/4 PT.

SEE ALSO: 26 stars who shockingly still don't have Oscars

Best original score

What will win: “La La Land”
Get ready — it’s likely this title will get called a lot on Oscar night. And it’s difficult to see a beloved musical walk away without being recognized for its score.

What could win: "Moonlight"
If there is a spoiler (that applies for the movie not just counting this category but in the entire evening) it’s the moving strings in “Moonlight.”

Best original song

What will win: “City of Stars” (“La La Land”)
Again, it’s the music that’s the backbone of “La La Land,” and this is a main piece.

What could win: “How Far I’ll Go” (“Moana”)
If Academy voters are feeling in a history-setting mood, they may go with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s song. The win would make the “Hamilton” star the youngest person ever to win the famed EGOT.

Best editing

What will win: “Arrival”
Editing is important in every movie, but the use of it to deliver the powerful ending in “Arrival” should be recognized.

What could win: “Moonlight”
Used as a way to jump us forward in time with the blink of an eye, the editing in “Moonlight” is also top-notch.

Dave Lutz, the head of exchange-traded funds at JonesTrading, recently released his annual "Spring Break reading" list.

Over 600 Wall Streeters around the world contributed to this list of great books for outdoor reading.

From science-fiction thrillers to business profiles, the full list is stellar, but we're highlighting only the 25 most frequently mentioned books.

The list includes short reviews of the books — occasionally by the person that recommended them to Lutz. 

Here they are:

"Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike" by Phil Knight

"Was expecting a tale of how Nike rose to global domination, but instead got a very humble, human story about regrets and perseverance."

Find it on Amazon »

"Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice" by Bill Browder

"John Grisham-like thriller, part business and political memoir, and in it Mr. Browder, an early hedge-fund investor in Russia, tells the story of how the Kremlin raided his fund, kicked him out of the country and perpetrated an elaborate financial fraud.

The lawyer he hires to investigate the crime is murdered, and Mr. Browder seeks to avenge his death. It’s a hard book to put down."

Find it on Amazon »

"The Undoing Project" by Michael Lewis

"...a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences."

Find it on Amazon »

During a February 18 rally, President Trump cited a nonexistent terror-related incident in Sweden as evidence of a connection between global terrorism and refugees.

The Scandinavian country saw no such event. (Trump later explained that the comment was based on a report about crime in Sweden that he'd watched the night before on Fox News.) In fact, the idyllic land boasts some of the happiest people on earth, thanks to the country's egalitarian values, paid parental leave policies, single-payer healthcare system, and breathtaking scenery — all of which leads thousands of people to immigrate each year.

Applying for citizenship requires you to live in the country for five years and have a "proven" identity — which also means you'd have to adjust to wintertime darkness.

For those who weren't born there, here's how you become a Swede.

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Be at least 18 years old — unless you know someone.

While the age requirements are hard and fast for adult citizenship, kids are given some leeway.

Parents of kids under 12 years old can apply for their child's citizenship as long as the parent is already a Swedish citizen. Kids over 12 must sign a consent form saying they want to become a citizen.

Once a child reaches 15 years old, they have to show they've been living in Sweden for at least three consecutive years "and have conducted themselves well," according to Sweden's immigration office.

Be able to prove your identity.

A passport or similar document with an accompanying photo is fine.

Alternatively, a relative or loved one can vouch for your identity, provided they're already a Swedish citizen. According to the immigration office, for a loved one to prove your identity, the two of you must have lived together before moving to Sweden.

"You must have lived together for such a period," the requirements read, "that your spouse has knowledge of your background and life story so that your identity can be attested to without doubt."

Have a permanent residence in Sweden.

If you're planning on spending more than 90 days in Sweden — for work, studying, or starting a business — you have to submit an application for a residence permit. 

This is what you'll eventually need to become a citizen. 

You finally have a credit card that offers amazing rewards. But how do you take advantage of them? Although free flights and cash are great perks, you can explore other ways to use your rewards to make your life even better.

Below are five creative ideas for making the most of your credit-card rewards:

Learn more about using your credit-card rewards.

This post is sponsored by Capital One.

1. Use your wedding to pay for the honeymoon.

Your wedding might seem like an endless list of expenses, from flowers and a DJ to your day-of coordinator. If you're smart about it, you can score a free honeymoon by paying for your wedding with a rewards credit card.

Plan to use the same credit card for big-ticket wedding purchases — like your wedding dress or suit — within a certain timeframe. After you earn miles or points, redeem them by booking a flight to Hawaii, Mexico, Greece, or wherever your heart desires.

2. Give back.

If you don't know what to do with your rewards, why not give them to an organization you want to support? You can make a donation to a charity close to your heart, and it may even be tax-deductible.

Whether you want to help military veterans, your favorite museum, or your hometown's hospital, you have options: Capital One's Giving Site allows you to choose from more than 1 million verified charities in the US that also are tax-deductible.

3. Erase the cost of travel expenses.

When you travel, there are lots of unexpected or hidden fees that add up. For example, in-flight Wi-Fi, checked-bag fees, and hotel parking can take a toll. But with the right credit card, you can get back some of that money.

With Capital One's unique Purchase Eraser^® tool, you can get reimbursed for recent travel expenses (within 90 days) by redeeming your accumulated miles for a statement credit.

Gmail is still one of the best ways to send and receive emails.

Its functionality may be simple, and its interface plain, but it gets the job done.

While it may seem basic, there is another level to Gmail.

There are several extensions, settings, and labs you can play around with to make Gmail go one step further from simple.

Here are four Gmail tricks you'll actually use.

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1. Send emails later

The Boomerang Chrome Extension allows you to write an email now and send it later  —  even if you're not online.

It schedules your emails to be sent at a specific time set by you. It can also be used to notify you when you need to respond to certain emails.

Instead of getting lost in your inbox, you can send emails away for a specific period of time, and have them return when you're ready to address them.

It's a great tool for scheduling and reminders. Download it today.

2. Undo emails sent

Have you ever accidentally hit “reply all”, and realized it seconds later? We all have.

Fortunately, Gmail now allows you to un-send a sent email. Within Gmail's settings, there is an option to “Enable Undo Send.” You can then set your emails to be undone within 5–30 seconds of sending them. You won't use it much  —  but when you do, it's a lifesaver.

3. Track who's tracking you

Email trackers are everywhere. Companies and individuals alike want to keep tabs on when you're opening their emails, and how many times you're opening them.

The good news is, you can take back control. UglyEmail is a Chrome extension that works within Gmail, showing you who is tracking emails sent to you. It's a great way to stay ahead of the game.

An average of eight million people visit the Hawaiian islands each year. But it's not likely that many of those tourists will have an experience that parallels what members can have at Kohanaiki, an exclusive club near Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii. 

With an annual membership fee of $25,000 (in addition to a one-time entrance fee of $100,000), Kohanaiki offers travelers a plethora of activities and real estate options to enjoy. Members can either purchase pre-constructed, fully furnished homes or build out custom homes themselves.

Several C-suite finance executives, as well as golf legend Ben Crenshaw, former tennis pro Lindsey Davenport, and Jacksonville Jaguar Davon House have all joined the club. 

"Our members are a very well-traveled, sophisticated set. This is not the first high-end, private club that they're a member of, and it's not their first vacation home," general manager George Punoose recently told Business Insider. "They've experienced the finest things in life and know what service and luxury is."

Let's take a tour of the 450-acre resort community where entrepreneurs, hedge funders, athletes, and entertainment industry pros vacation together.

SEE ALSO: Inside the swanky private club where Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, and Justin Timberlake go to ski

Kohanaiki is surrounded by lava flows, white-sand beaches, and bright blue waters.

The golf course is one obvious draw for vacationers ...

... as is the beach and all of the activities it has to offer. Kohanaiki's "A-Team" will take members surfing, snorkeling, scuba diving, and hiking.

 Whether you call them mixologists or bartenders, whether you prefer canned PBR or fancy cocktails, whether you like it dark and dingy or bright and sleek, we can all agree on one thing: there's nothing like a nice cold drink to take the edge off.

Yelp shared a list of the very best bar in every US state.

Keep scrolling to see the most highly rated watering hole in yours.

ALABAMA: The Hound in Auburn

Check out its Yelp reviews here » 

ALASKA: The Asylum in Ketchikan

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ARIZONA: The Whining Pig in Phoenix

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Often, when rocks from space hurtle towards Earth, they burn up in the atmosphere before actually reaching us. The ones that vaporize become a meteor — or a shooting star.

The lucky few that make the whole journey land on Earth as meteorites. Once on the surface, these meteorites can exist as a single rock for thousands of years, except for a little weathering. 

Asteroids are much bigger, such as the one 63 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs, and 2012 DA14 which narrowly missed the Earth in 2013. 

Here are some of the biggest space rocks ever to crash into us and survive.

Willamette is the largest meteorite ever found in the US, at 7.8 square metres long and with a weight of 15.5 tonnes.

The Willamette Meteorite is made up of iron and nickel and was acquired by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in 1906. It has an interesting little story attached, because it was discovered by Ellis Hughes in 1902 who recognized that it was more than a piece of rock, and spent three months shifting it three quarters of a mile from land owned by the Oregon Iron and Steel Company, but he was caught. The photo above was taken at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in 1911.

Mbozi was discovered in Tanzania in the 1930s. It's 3 metres long and weighs an estimated 25 tonnes, or almost twice that of Willamette.

Mbozi was once a sacred stone to the people of Tanzania, who call it kimondo. No crater was found, which means it probably rolled like a boulder when it hit the Earth's surface. Mbozi was partially buried when it was first discovered, so people dug the hillside around it, leaving a pillar of soil underneath, which was then turned into a plinth. 

The third largest meteorite in history, the Cape York meteorite, collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago.

The Cape York meteorite, or Agpalilik meteorite, was discovered in 1993 in Greenland and weighs about 20 tonnes. It's been around a long time, and Inuit living near it used other peces as a source of mental for tools and harpoons. It is currently on display in the Geological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Bill and Melinda Gates are optimistic about the future, and they think you should be, too.

As the co-chairs of the Gates Foundation explain in their recent Gates Letter, an annual review of global progress, the world is doing a lot better than the public gives it credit for.

People aren't as poor, as sick, or as unequal as they used to be.

The letter includes a dizzying number of charts, graphs, and stats illustrating that point, but here are four that highlight some of the Gateses favorite leaps.

SEE ALSO: Bill Gates says this is the most beautiful chart in the world

1. The polio vaccine has been incredibly effective in eradicating disease.

New polio cases haven't gone down much in the last 17 years — mostly because they're already so close to zero.

In the 64 years since Jonas Salk developed the first vaccine, countries have taken concerted efforts to get people inoculated. China saw its last cases in the mid-1990s and India about 20 years later.

In 2016, there were fewer than 40 new cases logged worldwide. Currently, just four countries have yet to eradicate it.

2. Contraceptive use is higher than it's ever been.

One of the most effective methods for ensuring economic and social success is female empowerment. In its 2015 Gates Letter, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation noted that investments in women's health result in stronger workforces and economies in general.

In many developing countries, fertility rates are extremely high. This is due in part to women bearing more children, because they know some will not survive infancy. But that keeps them in a cycle of poverty, as resources spread thin.

Contraceptives help break that cycle, letting women focus more on themselves and their families. Roughly 300 million women in the 69 poorest countries used some form of birth control in 2016 — a jump of 30 million from 2012.

3. Some 122 million kids' lives have been saved over the last 20 years.

Gates has called this the most beautiful chart in the world.

Since 1990, the number of kids dying before their 5th birthday has been cut in half, from 12.1 million down to 5.8 million, in 2015. This is largely due to advances and investments in simple, inexpensive measures in developing countries, including bed nets to prevent malaria and drilling wells for access to clean water.

The World Health Organization finds preterm birth complications and malnutrition play deciding roles in how children fare in their first years of life.

Gates has invested heavily in addressing the needs of kids ever since realizing the extent of the problem during a trip to Africa in the 1990s, the letter explains.

It's time to say bye to a bunch of titles from Netflix as the calendar turns to March.

Be sure to binge "Jaws" and its awful sequels one last time before they leave the streaming giant, along with the classic comedy "Animal House." And watch the highly underrated "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey," too.

Here's everything else that's leaving Netflix in March. We've highlighted the titles we think you should watch in bold.

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Leaving March 1

“Jaws”
“Justice League: War”
“Jaws 2”
“Jaws 3”
“Jaws: The Revenge”
“Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox”
“Keeping Up Appearances”
“Monarch of the Glen” (Seasons 1 - 7)
“National Lampoon's Animal House”
“Robin Hood” (Seasons 1 - 3)
“Survivors” (Series 1 - 2)

Leaving March 2

“Black or White”
“Sweetwater”

Leaving March 3

“Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey”
“Misfire”
“Web Junkie”

Sweden was pulled into America's ongoing debate over refugee resettlement last weekend, after President Donald Trump implied Saturday that an ominous incident had occurred "last night in Sweden" as a result of the country's generous immigration policies.

Trump critics and Swedes themselves were quick to rebut the statement, noting that no such incident had occurred Friday night — although Trump later clarified that he had been referring to a Fox News segment alleging a wave of migrant-related crime and violence had swept Sweden.

"Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!" Trump subsequently tweeted Monday.

The comments ricocheted around social media, whipping up both condemnation and praise for Sweden's generous refugee and immigration policies, and stirred debate over the consequences of allowing so many newcomers to flow into the country over so short a period of time.

Sweden took in a record 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015— more per capita than any other European country — although that number has dropped to just 29,000 in 2016 after the country introduced new restrictions.

But Trump's comments on Saturday, and Horowitz's comments on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," weren't the first criticisms that have been leveled against Sweden's massive refugee intake.

Here are some of the issues and facts.

SEE ALSO: Trump cited a nonexistent incident in Sweden during his rally on Saturday

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Doubt over the Fox News segment

One of the first issues that arose was the veracity of the information Trump was using when he commented on the country. As critics were quick to point out, Trump had made his remarks based on a Fox News interview between Carlson and filmmaker Ami Horowitz, not his daily intelligence briefings.

Two police officers Horowitz had interviewed for his film subsequently said their remarks had been taken out of context and selectively edited. They said they had been commenting on areas with high crime rates and not on immigration or refugees.

"We don't stand behind it. It shocked us. He has edited the answers," one of the officers, Anders Göranzon, told The Washington Post. "We were answering completely different questions in the interview. This is bad journalism."

Horowitz later denied to the Guardian that he had misled the officers, saying he was "pretty sure" he had informed them of the piece's content.

"This is part of the problem that Sweden has, and the officers are probably under a lot of pressure because of what they said. It's difficult in that environment to stand up to it, so I feel sorry for them," Horowitz said.

Migrants and crime in Sweden

According to data and Swedish criminologists, there is no evidence of a massive crime wave driven by refugees and immigrants.

The 2016 Swedish Crime Survey did show a small uptick in crime in 2015, with 13.3% of nearly 12,000 respondents reporting they were exposed to one or more offenses, including assault, threats, sexual offenses, robbery, fraud, or harassment.

But although the number is up from 11.3% the prior year, the survey says the numbers remain around the same level as they did in 2005, well before Sweden's refugee influx began.

It's difficult to ascertain which demographics are most responsible for any small increases in crime — the Swedish government has refused to keep official data on criminals' races or nationalities.

But an analysis of crime statistics conducted by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter found that between October 2016 and January 2016, just 1% of more than 500,000 incidents police were called to involved refugees.

Combined with Sweden's relatively low crime rate, the statistics cast doubt on Horowitz's suggestion that refugees have driven a "surge" in crime. 

Rather, individual instances of refugee or immigrant-related crime appears to bolster the idea that a "surge" is taking place. For example, riots erupted Monday night in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in Stockholm.

After police entered the neighborhood to arrest a suspect, residents threw rocks at police, vandalized storefronts, looted, and set 10 cars on fire, according to police. The riots are still being investigated, but other than the initial suspect, no one has been arrested, The Washington Post reported.

Rape and sexual offenses

Rape and sex crimes in particular have drawn the attention of refugee critics such as Horowitz. During his Fox News interview, Horowitz said Sweden's open-door policy had resulted in an "absolute surge" in gun violence and rape cases, alleging that the Swedish government has "gone out of its way to cover up some of these crimes."

Yet the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has documented a 12% decrease in sex offenses reported to police between 2014 and 2015. In 2015, 18,100 sex offenses were reported, 5,920 of which were classified as rape. That represents a 12% decrease in reported rapes from 2014.

While a longer-term trend for reported rape offenses has risen since 2006, the council attributes this rise partly to legislation introduced in 2005 and 2013, both of which broadened the type of acts that could be classified as rape.

If your ideal night out involves a craft cocktail in a beautiful bar, look no further.

Passionate mixologists around the country are creating some of the most innovative cocktails imaginable, and this list brings together the top 25 according to customer reviews. 

The winners were selected based on data taken from Foursquare City Guide, which takes into account its users' likes, saves, tip sentiment, and its "proprietary hotness score."

If you're looking for a fun night of cocktails, these are good places to start.

SEE ALSO: The 27 best new restaurants in America

25. Bryant's Cocktail Lounge (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

1579 South 9th St, Milwaukee, WI

Bryant's doesn't use menus, though it does offer suggestions. It wants drinkers to go bespoke and order by "flavor or color, strength or texture, base or size." Try a "Brain Buster" with rum and sweet citrus, and if you can finish it, they'll give you a Bryant's bumper sticker.  

24. The Up & Up (New York, New York)

116 Macdougal Street, New York, NY

The Up & Up is an upscale cocktail bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Owner Matt Piacentini has brought this historic space, once home to the Gaslight Cafe — the birthplace of the Beat Generation and many other musical acts — back to life. Old Fashioneds are served in flask-like bottles.

23. Blueprint (Brooklyn, New York)

196 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Small and charming, this bar is Park Slope's best place to get a classic cocktail. If you're feeling more adventurous, they also serve up an eclectic mix of house cocktails with more of a kick. "The Kickstarter," for example, mixes rum and coffee bitters but has a lemony twist. 

As the US starts to forward-deploy more of its F-35 Lightning, China and Russia have been putting the finishing touches on their own batches of fifth-generation aircraft — and they all express vastly different ideas about what the future of air combat will look like.

For the US, stealth and sophisticated networks define its vision for the future of air combat with the F-22 and F-35.

For China, they plan to use range to take out high-value targets with the J-20.

For Russia, their PAK-FA shows that they seem to think that dogfighting isn't dead.

Here's how the F-35 stacks up to the competition.

SEE ALSO: The US just sent an aircraft-carrier strike group to mix it up in the South China Sea

The F-35 Lightning II

The US's F-35 isn't an airplane, it's three airplanes. And it isn't a fighter, it's a "flying sensor-shooters that have the ability to act as information nodes in a combat cloud universe made up of platforms, not just airborne, but also operating at sea and on land that can be networked together," retired US Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula told Defense & Aerospace Report in November. 

In a discussion with four F-35 pilots, also produced by Defense & Aerospace Report, a clear consensus emerged — the difference between an F-35 and an F-15 is like the difference between an iPhone and a corded wall phone. Phones of the past might have had crystal clear call quality and the ability to conference call, but the iPhone brought an unprecedented networking and computing capability that changed life as we know it.

Lt. Col. David "Chip" Berke, a former F-35 squadron commander, told Business Insider that "we don’t even know 50-80% of what this airplane can do," as it awaits final software upgrades and pilots find new ways to use the datalink and fused sensors. 

That said, the F-35 doesn't offer any significant upgrades in range, weapons payload, or dogfighting ability over legacy aircraft, while the competition does.

The Chengdu J-20

China's Chengdu J-20 has one thing in common with the F-35 — it's not a fighter.

Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at the Australia Strategic Policy Institute, told Business Insider that the J-20 is "not a fighter, but an interceptor and a strike aircraft" that doesn't seek to contend with US jets in air-to-air battles.

Instead, "the Chinese are recognizing they can attack critical airborne support systems like AWACS (airborne early warning and control systems) and refueling planes so they can't do their job," Davis said. "If you can force the tankers back, then the F-35s and other platforms aren't sufficient because they can't reach their target."

While the Chinese certainly did engage in espionage to steal some of the US's stealth technology, they haven't quite cracked stealth integration, which US companies have been developing for 60 years.

On the J-20's stealth, a senior US low observable aircraft design engineer working in the industry told Business Insider that "the J-20 has many features copied from US 5th gen aircraft; however, it’s apparent from looking at many pictures of the aircraft that the designers don’t fully understand all the concepts of LO (low observable/stealth) design."

The real danger of China's J-20 lies not with its ability to fight against US fighters, but its laser-like focus on destroying the slower, unarmed planes that support US fighters with its long range and long range missiles, thereby keeping them out of fighting range.

The J-31

China's J-31 looks a lot like the F-35, and Chinese nationals have been indicted for stealing confidential information about the F-35 program.

That said, the J-31 suffers from China's inferior composite materials technology and its ability to build planes in the supremely precise way a stealth airplane needs to be built. Additionally, there's reason to suspect the avionics in the Chinese programs lags significantly behind the F-35. 

But the J-31, like the J-20, still poses a significant threat because China has developed long-range missiles, which combined with their ground-based radars, and radar sites in the South China Sea, could potentially pick off US stealth aircraft before the F-35s and F-22s could fire back.

Malcolm Davis told us that the J-31 doesn't just seek to compete with the US militarily, but that the J-31 "very clearly is an F-35 competitor in a commercial sense." Nations that weren't invited to participate in the F-35 program may seek to buy China's cheaper and somewhat comparable J-31. 

A fleet of J-31s in the hands of Iran, for example, could pose a serious threat to US interests abroad. 

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking millennial women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we're tracking every last dollar. (Thanks, New Yorkmag, for the inspiration.) Today, an American living in Hong Kong with her husband and 3-year-old daughter.

Industry: Archives
Age: 30
Location: Hong Kong. We've been here 2.5 years.
Salary: $79,000 (my husband makes $165K + bonus as an attorney)
Paycheck amount (monthly): $6,600 for me, $13,400 for my husband, not withholding taxes. In Hong Kong, you actually pay your taxes a year in advance, based on your projected income. So now we have technically already paid taxes for 2016 and are saving for our 2017 assessment. We pay an overall rate of about 10%. We do still owe tax in the U.S., but only federal income tax, no state taxes, FICA, etc. We do, however, qualify for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and for 2015 the first $100,800 for each of us was tax-free.
# of roommates: 3, my husband, our daughter, and our nanny

Monthly Expenses
Rent: $3,224
Loan payments: Around $1,100 total for the combined minimum for my loans and my husband’s, we usually pay around $2,000.
Utilities: $100 electric (in summer), $40 cable and internet, $50 a month for gas
Transportation: No fixed costs
Phone bill: $70 a phone for 2 smartphones
Health insurance: Provided by employers at no cost to us
Savings: We each have 1.5% withheld from our paychecks every month for the Hong Kong version of Social Security. We put aside about $3,000 a month in Hong Kong to save to pay our tax bill, school tuition (it is billed by term, not monthly), and other random expenses. We also transfer about $2,000 to the U.S. every month (varies based on other monthly expenses) to be put into an investment account or used as general savings.
Nanny salary: $775 a month plus room and board. It seems crazy-low, but it is actually above average here.
School tuition: $1,180 a month for half-day pre-school.
Gym: $280 for unlimited classes at a boxing and weightlifting gym. It is insanely expensive, but it is also convenient and I actually like going.
Netflix: $8
iCloud storage: $2

SEE ALSO: My boyfriend makes $160,000 and I make $80,000 — here's how it affects our relationship

Day 1

Day 2

7 a.m. — Actually make it to the gym today, but I forgot my water bottle so I stop at 7-Eleven on the way. $1

9:45 a.m. — There is a fire alarm in my building, so I take the opportunity to go to the small grocery store on campus and buy a Coke Light and some chips. $3

12:15 p.m. — I had leftovers for lunch, but forgot them at home! I officially didn't manage to bring lunch once this week, which is pretty bad, because I pack leftovers at least three days a week. I'm tired of everything close to the office, so I hop on the MTR (subway) and go two stops away where there is a much better restaurant selection. I go to a Vietnamese place and get a lemongrass-beef bun for $9.50. I only eat half, so I can have the leftovers for dinner or lunch tomorrow. The MTR fare is $0.60 each way for a grand total of $1.20. Total: $10.70

5:30 p.m. — It is Friday, so to celebrate I stop at the 7-Eleven on the way home for some beer. I get three tallboys of Tiger for $3.50.

7 p.m. — Eat my lunch leftovers for dinner.

8:45 p.m. — My daughter is in bed, and I leave to go meet some friends. I take the MTR to my friend's apartment ($0.60) and pick up half a rotisserie chicken and some sides for them because they haven't eaten yet. $16.50, but they pay me back. Total: $0.60

9:30 p.m. — A friend of a friend is having a gathering at a private club. It is $51 for free flow [open bar], which is actually a pretty good deal for Hong Kong. Unfortunately, I drink way too much white wine trying to get my money's worth. $51

1 a.m. — The MTR has stopped running, so I grab a taxi home. $3.25

Daily Total: $73.05

Day 3

7 a.m. — I wake up and FaceTime with my mom. We try to do this every weekend. I also eat some hummus and pita for breakfast.

10 a.m. — My husband goes grocery shopping. He does the vast majority of the food shopping. This trip is mostly for Diet Cokes, beers, wine, coffee, and snack food. All the essentials, obviously. $35

2 p.m. — We want to take advantage of the weak Euro and VAT refund when we are in Paris, so my husband and I go to a fancy mall to do some window-shopping to see what we might like to buy. $1.20 for both of us to take the MTR. (Our daughter is at home with her nanny. It is normal for nannies to work on Saturdays in Hong Kong.) $1.20

3 p.m. — My husband leaves me to go put in a few hours at work. I keep shopping. I go to J.Crew and try on a dress that I want to wear for an upcoming wedding. I don’t buy it now because they mark everything way up here. The dress is $165 here, and I know it is only $128 in the U.S. I decide to order it later from the U.S. website.

4 p.m. — I stop at a 7-Eleven to get a Coke Light. $1

5:15 p.m. — My husband and I meet up for beers. $19

6 p.m. — We take the MTR from downtown back to our neighborhood. It’s $1.20 for both of us. We stop at the grocery store to buy salmon for tonight, plus some vegetables and other random stuff. $33.50. Total: $34.70

6:30 p.m. — We make another stop for vodka on the way home. $19

7:30 p.m. — My husband cooks dinner and we have broccoli, salmon, and rice. We also drink plenty of wine and beer that we already had in the fridge.

9 p.m. — I order that dress from the U.S. J.Crew and have it sent to my dad because he is visiting soon and can bring it to me. There is a promo code, so the grand total after tax and shipping is $110.76.

Daily Total: $220.66

Bitcoin hit a record high of $1,162 on February 23, nearly two months after hitting its previous high of $1,161 on January 5.

A year and a half ago, the idea of buying the virtual currency bitcoin at that price was laughable. After a rapid rise in value in 2013, the cryptocurrency's value more than halved by mid-2015.

At its lowest point, one bitcoin was equal to about $230.

Given the currency's covert nature, the average person still may not understand how buying and selling actually works.

Using the app Coinbase, which lets anyone trade bitcoins for a small fee, we decided to find out.

A brief warning: If you're going to do this, tell your bank you're about to buy bitcoin. More on that later.

SEE ALSO: Bitcoin is trying to make a comeback

This is what the Coinbase app looks like on an iPhone.

When you first open the app, you're presented with the latest price of bitcoin and its change within a certain period. You can see in the chart below how wild the latest moves have been. (We bought the bitcoin in early January.)

I happen to be one of the many who have never traded bitcoin before. There's a certain level of wariness in buying into the cryptocurrency world.

You may not be able to grab a beer with Bill Clinton or sit down for supper with the Obamas, but you can certainly visit establishments where the country's Commanders-in-Chief have wined and dined over the years.

We've profiled 10 restaurants and watering holes where travelers can soak up stories about presidential drinking and dining, not to mention throw back some seriously good food and drinks.

SEE ALSO: The 25 best cocktail bars in America, according to Foursquare

Martin's Tavern

Where: Washington, D.C.

Since its opening in 1933, popular Georgetown fixture Martin's Tavern has been packed with presidents. Today, guests can sit in Booth 1, where John F. Kennedy ate breakfast on Sundays after attending mass at nearby Holy Trinity Church (he was partial to the "early riser" breakfast, with eggs, toast, hash browns, ham, bacon or sausage, juice, and coffee). Other presidential menu favorites include the cheeseburger (ordered by Bill Clinton), meatloaf (Richard Nixon), and prime rib (Harry S. Truman). Wondering what to drink? Whiskey lovers should enjoy Lyndon B. Johnson's favorite pairing: bourbon with steak, which he purportedly ordered many times at the tavern with Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn in tow.

Insider Tip: John F. Kennedy proposed to Jacqueline Onassis in Booth 3, or what the staff call "the proposal booth."

Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Washington, D.C. Guide

Gasby's Tavern Restaurant

Where: Alexandria, VA

It's only fitting to fête Washington's birthday where he himself celebrated the occasion with dining and dancing: at Gadsby's Tavern in 1798 and 1799 (at the latter gathering, he reportedly enjoyed canvas-back duck, hominy and Madeira, the much-enjoyed fortified wine of the time). The tavern also played host to a lavish inaugural banquet for Thomas Jefferson. Today, it hosts George Washington’s Birthnight Banquet and Ball, an annual Rum Challenge (rum punch was the tavern’s signature drink in the 18th century) and offers special Madeira tastings to visitors.

Insider Tip: Stop by the Gadsby's Tavern Museum next door, where guests can peruse dining areas, rooms and the banquet hall, which hosted the first six American presidents.

Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Alexandria Guide

Vermilion

Where: Alexandria, VA

The Obamas celebrated Valentine's Day at this Old Town Alexandria restaurant in 2012 — known for highlighting locally sourced ingredients and supporting the area’s artisans and farmers — where President Barack Obama was spotted dining without a tie. The couple enjoyed Vermilion's special Valentine’s Day tasting menu along with a martini and dined on the restaurant's second floor, which overlooks bustling King Street.

Insider Tip: Visitors can catch live music by local talents in the restaurant's lounge every Tuesday and Wednesday night at 9:30 pm.

Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor’s Alexandria Guide

If there's one thing to learn from watching the "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" movies, it's that the Greeks like food. A lot.

But Greek cuisine doesn't end with gyro and Fage yogurt. Greek culture has some of the world's most delicious food, from hearty slow-cooked meat dishes to syrupy, rose-flavored cakes for dessert.

I tapped into my Greek-Cypriot heritage — and asked my friends and family for their favorite dishes — to put together a list of Greek foods you should try.

As my yiayia would say, "Kopiaste!" ("Come and sit, eat!")

Papoutsakia

Papoutsakia, which translates to "little shoes," are eggplants stuffed with meat cooked in a tomato sauce and covered in bechamel sauce.

Pastitsio

This baked pasta dish — also called macaronia tou fournou — is similar to lasagna. It's made with layers of macaroni, minced pork (or beef) in a tomato sauce seasoned with mint and cinnamon, and topped with creamy bechamel and cheese. It's perfect on its own or paired with salad.

Taramosalata

This fish roe dip, blended with olive oil and either potato or bread, brings a burst of color to the table. It's heavenly spread on pita bread — and though it's high in fat, it's rich in protein and Omega-3.