Consumer aviation website Skytrax has published its latest annual World Airport Awards, and for the third consecutive year, Singapore's Changi International Airport took the crown as the world's best airport. It serves as one of Southeast Asia's largest transit hubs and is a major cog in the city-state's bustling economy.

"To win this prestigious award three years in succession is a remarkable achievement for Changi Airport Singapore, and underlines its popularity amongst air travellers as the world's Best Airport," Skytrax CEO Edward Plaisted said. "Changi Airport lives up to its reputation as the world's Best Airport and rather than dwell on earlier success, the airport continues to innovate and concentrate on making the customer experience in the airport environment the most enjoyable."

The Skytrax annual rankings are based on the impressions of over 13 million flyers from 112 countries. More than 550 airports were included in the survey, which covers 39 service and performance parameters, including facility comfort, location of bathrooms, and the language skills of the airport staff. 

10. Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)

Yearly passengers: 83.7 million

Previous rank: 7

Why it's awesome: As the second-busiest airport in the world, Beijing's Capital Airport has played a major role in the Chinese capital's explosive growth. 

With this growth, the airport has built new facilities and upgraded its infrastructure. Capital's Terminal 3 was rated as the 10th-best terminal in the world.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figure is for 2013, provided by Airports Council International.

9. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS)

Yearly passengers: 52.6 million

Previous rank: 5

Why it's awesome: Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is one of the busiest airports in Europe and serves as the hub for KLM, Transavia, and Delta.

Opened in 1916, Schiphol is noted for its wide variety of leisure activities and has a library in which flyers can cozy up with a good book while waiting for their flights.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figure is for 2013, provided by Airports Council International.

8. London Heathrow Airport (LHR)

Yearly passengers: 72.4 million

Previous rank: 10

Why it's awesome: Heathrow is the world's third-busiest airport and the largest of the five primary airports serving London. 

Heathrow is in the midst of a major renovation with the addition of a brand new Terminal 2 building. It's seven-year-old Terminal 5 building was named the best airport terminal in the world by Skytrax.

Heathrow serves as the main hub for British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards. Yearly passenger figure is for 2013, provided by Airports Council International.

There is fierce competition every year for a space on Z/Yen's Global Financial Cities Index, and 2015 is no different.

The ranks give cities a combined score based on five main factors: 

• Business environment
• Financial sector development
• Infrastructure
• Human capital
• Reputational and general factors.

There was a huge reaction when New York dethroned London as the world's top financial hub last year — but has London managed to take the crown back? And how are Asia's growing megacities doing as China's rapid growth cools?

20.) DOHA just makes it into the top 20, climbing from 22nd place last year, the capital of Qatar is the middle east's second most important financial hub.

19.) FRANKFURT is down three places on the list, despite the opening of the European Central Bank's massive new headquarters there.

18.) MONTREAL sneaks into the top 20, making it Canada's third highest-ranking financial centre.

With LeBron James' slow start to the season and Kevin Durant missing more than half of the games so far, this season's MVP race is the most wide open in years.

Using Player Efficiency Rating (PER, avg=15.00), Win Shares, and Wins Above Replacement (WAR), as well as team performance and other more subjective factors, we ranked the top players based on who we think has the best chance of winning this year's MVP award.

As we move towards the end of the season Stephen Curry is the favorite. But there are seven other players who can also make a strong case.

1. Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors (previously: 1st)

Team Record (rank in conference): 56-13 (1)

PER (rank): 27.51 (4)

Win Shares (rank): 12.9 (2)

Wins Above Replacement (rank): 15.72 (2)

One thing to know: Stephen Curry is averaging just 32.9 minutes played per game. No player has ever won the MVP playing fewer than 33.3 minutes per game and only two have won the award playing fewer than 35.0 minutes per game (Bill Walton 33.3 in 1978-79 and Steve Nash 34.3 in 2004-05).

2. Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City Thunder (previously: 5th)

Team Record (rank in conference): 40-30 (8)

PER (rank): 29.55 (2)

Win Shares (rank): 9.1 (9)

Wins Above Replacement (rank): 9.85 (9)

One thing to know: There have been 40, 40-point games in the NBA this season. Russell Westbrook and James Harden each have seven and no other player has more than three. Westbrook also has ten triple-doubles this season. No other player has more than three.

3. LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers (previously: 4th)

Team Record (rank in conference): 46-26 (2)

PER (rank): 26.25 (7)

Win Shares (rank): 9.1 (9)

Wins Above Replacement (rank): 13.40 (3)

One thing to know: This season is starting to look a lot like LeBron James' first season with the Heat and if the season ended today, the Cavs would play the Heat in the first round of the playoffs.

Singapore's Changi Airport was just named the world's best airport in 2015 by the World Airport Awards. 

This is the third year that Changi took the top spot in Skytrax's World Airport Awards, the most prestigious airport award in the industry.

Skytrax evaluates over 400 airports around the world for service, check-in, transfers, shopping, security, immigration, and more. 

It's no surprise that Changi took the No. 1 spot. The international transit hub has incredible amenities, like a butterfly garden, rooftop pool, movie theaters, hotels, spas, and showers, and even a four-story slide.

I visited the airport during a trip to Singapore a few years ago and had a chance to explore. The bottom line: This is a place where you'll actually enjoy having a long layover.

Disclosure: Our trip to Singapore, including travel and lodging expenses, was sponsored by the Singapore Tourism Board. 

The airport is an architectural marvel. The newest terminal, Terminal 3, was designed by CPG Consultants, in collaboration with Woodhead, Tierra Design and SOM, Bartenbach LichtLabor and Hugh Dutton & Associates.

Most passengers enter the airport at Terminal 3, the newest and largest terminal at Changi, which is where Singapore Airlines is based. At 380,000 sq. m., the terminal is spacious, with high ceilings and an open, airy feel.

There's also a lush vertical garden here called the "Green Wall." It has more than 20 varieties of plants, vines, and flowers growing on it.

Whether it's your salary or your cable bill, a lot of life is up for negotiation. 

Here's what works, according to the research.

Know your context.

Is the negotiation one-shot or long-term?

In "The Mind and the Heart of the Negotiator," Kellogg management professor Leigh Thompson notes that the interaction between a customer and the waitstaff at a highway roadside diner is one of the few one-shot negotiations that happen in life — there's little chance that patron or staff will see each other again. 

But every other negotiation is long-term, with employment negotiations as a primary example. If it's long-term, you need to manage not only monetary value, but the impression you're making.

Make the first offer.

It makes use of the anchoring effect.

If you start high, the hiring manager may adjust the figure down slightly. But that's typically a stronger position than starting low and trying to negotiate up.

"Whoever makes the first offer essentially drops an anchor on the table," Thompson tells Business Insider."I might say that your opening offer is ridiculous, but nevertheless, unconsciously, I've been anchored." 

Make an aggressive offer.

Columbia University negotiation scholar Adam Galinsky says that people are overly cautious when making first offers. 

On HBS Working Knowledge, Galinsky likens negotiating a salary to selling a house: 

Take the perspective of the seller: more extreme first offers lead to higher final settlements...

High-anchor offers lead buyers to focus on a negotiated item's positive attributes. In addition, an aggressive first offer allows you to offer concessions and still reach an agreement that's much better than your alternatives.

In contrast, a nonaggressive first offer leaves you with two unappealing options: Make small concessions or stand by your demands.

The future of mobile is being redefined. The smartphone and tablet markets are nearing saturation. The days of heady hardware growth are long gone.

Mobile growth is moving into media, advertising, software, and services. Meanwhile, new devices are expanding the meaning of "mobile."

BI Intelligence has created a slideshow that highlights the new markets growing up around the multiscreen consumer.  

1. Mobile Commerce

2. Mobile Advertising

3. Mobile Apps

4. Emerging Devices And Platforms

5. Mobile Payments And Banking

6. Mobile Health 

Only BI Intelligence subscribers can download the individual charts and datasets in Excel, along with the PowerPoint and PDF versions of this deck. Please sign up for a membership here. BI Intelligence is a research and analysis service focused on mobile computing, digital media, payments, e-commerce, and the Internet of Things. 

Brit Morin, founder of DIY content and ecommerce site Brit + Co., has been called "the Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley" for her unique combination of tech savvy and creativity.

She recently published"Homemakers," a book she calls "a domestic handbook for the digital generation."

Inside you'll find dozens of recipes, DIY projects, and general tips for improving your home.

Morin, a former employee of both Apple and Google, certainly knows a thing or two about tech.

"I’m not sure people fully realize how advanced our homes are becoming," she said to Business Insider. "This is the new reality as of today, and it’s only going to advance more."

We've rounded up some of the gadgets and apps she recommends in "Homemakers."

Egg Minder

Egg Minder is a smart tray that connects with your smart phone to let you know when you're going to run out of eggs. 

LED lights on the tray itself indicate which eggs are the oldest, so you'll never end up using an egg that has gone bad.

Price: $49.99

Foodily

This app has tons of recipes to browse through.

Share things you've made, or collect others' recipes into your own digital recipe box.

Price:Free

iGrill

"I'm the worst at guesstimating how well done my meat is," Morin writes in "Homemakers."

"Enter the iGrill. Stick this thermometer in your chicken or beef while it cooks and as soon as the meat is cooked to perfection you'll be alerted by phone. Yum." 

Price:$75

When Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel first met, Spiegel left the meeting feeling unsettled.

According to a Forbes interview with Spiegel, Zuckerberg had said Facebook was working on an app that sounded a lot like Snapchat, Poke, and that the app would be launching soon.

'It was basically like, 'We're going to crush you,'" Spiegel told Forbes' J.J. Colao.

Spiegel quickly purchased a book, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, for each member of his six-person team.

The Art of War was written by a Chinese general named Sun Tzu more than 2,500 years ago, possibly in the 6th Century BC. The book has long been heralded for its advice on military success. And this advice has since been co-opted by legions of armchair soldiers and generals in the business world.

The book is composed of 13 chapters, each of which focuses on a different aspect of war. It's a smart book. It's also poetic, repetitive, and arcane. So we've boiled down the highlights, compiling quotes from throughout the book.

ON MANAGEMENT: Care about your team, but also be tough

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:  

• recklessness, which leads to destruction;
• cowardice, which leads to capture;
• a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
• a delicacy of honor, which is sensitive to shame;
• over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.  

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.  

When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

Based on text from "The Art of War."

ON MANAGEMENT: Hire great people, because weak, frustrated subordinates will cripple you.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse. 

When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin. 

Based on text from "The Art of War."

ON STRATEGY: Know your enemy

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this way:

• which of the two generals has the most ability? 
• on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? 
• which army is stronger? 
• on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? 
• in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment? 

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. 

Based on text from "The Art of War."

To write their new book, "Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader," Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli relied on decades of their own Apple coverage.

Schlender, especially, covered Steve Jobs for 25 years, and he packs the book full of quotes we'd never read before.

On the value of tinkering with radios and TVs as a kid: "It gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. These things were not mysteries anymore."

On how Jobs saw himself: "I didn't want to be a businessman, because all the businessmen I knew I didn't want to be like."

On his belief in the power of Apple's products when his team was working on the first Mac computer: "The work 50 people are doing here is going to send a giant ripple through the universe."

Poundland founder Steve Smith went from market stall trader to multi-millionaire by the time he was 30 years old.

He was dragged to his father's stall in Bilston as a toddler, and set up his first high-street bargain goods store when he was a teenager. He turned that into the retail empire Poundland, which he later sold for £50 million ($74.2 million).

His next venture is EstatesDirect, an online property agent.

After trading a humble townhouse in Wolverhampton, West Midlands for a 15,000-square-foot-mansion in Shropshire in 2000, he told Business Insider how he did it. 

Smith also shared with us some early photos from his days on his father's Bilston stall. We've mixed them with other images of his roots in the Midlands.

Steve Smith was born in Wolverhampton on August 9, 1961.

He went to Tipton Green School until he was 16.

From the age of 2, his parents took him to the family's Bilston market stall in the West Midlands.

There's a perpetual air of mystery surrounding the abandoned buildings of the world.

Intrepid photographers like Hans van Vrouwerf aim to clear that mystery. They explore the rotting, decaying buildings left to the wild for decades so you don't have to.

Netherlands-based ban Vrouwerf has explored dozens of abandoned buildings all across Europe and shared with us a few of his favorite shots of asylums, factories, churches, and more left to the elements.

In an interview with Curbed, he explains a bit about his technique and experience photographing the buildings.

Hans shared his photos with us, along with the captions, which are in his own words. For more of his photography, check out his website. 

Netherlands-based photographer Hans van Vrouwerf searches all over Europe for decaying buildings to photograph.

According to his interview with Curbed, he finds the buildings by going through old news articles and finding the sites on Google Maps.

He's traveled from France to Poland and all across Europe in search of these abandoned buildings.

Steve Jobs is remembered as a brilliant leader and visionary, but he also has a reputation for being stern, harsh, and sometimes just downright mean.

In their new book, "Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader," Brent Shlender and Rick Tetzeli seek to paint a different picture of Jobs — one that shows how he matured over the years.

It shows a more personable side of Jobs that not only portrays his quick and somewhat unreasonable temper, but his kindness and appreciation for those close to him.

He gave Pixar's John Lasseter a special bonus so he could buy a new car.

Lasseter was one of Jobs' closest friends. Schlender and Tetzeli's book describes an instance in which Jobs gave Lasseter a bonus so that he could replace his 1984 Honda Civic. 

"You have to use this to buy a new car," he told Lasseter, according to the book. "You have to buy or lease a new car, and it has to be safe, and I have to approve it." 

He took his Mac team on retreats and praised their work.

In the company's early days, after the Apple II was released, Jobs would take his Mac engineers on retreats so that he could get to know them better, according to the book. He gave inspirational speeches to his engineers, saying that the work they were doing was "going to send a giant ripple through the universe."

He helped a complete stranger fix his car.

A designer named Tim Smith would pass by Jobs' house when visiting his girlfriend in Palo Alto. One day, when his car broke down, Jobs' wife Laurene came out and brought him a beer while Jobs tried to fix the car. Smith detailed the interaction on Quora, which Schlender and Tetzeli reference in their book. 

Beautiful campuses and strong athletics are important, but for the best schools, it always comes down to the academics.

Our friends at Niche created a list of the smartest private high schools in America.

Niche determined the bulk of the rankings by weighing each school's composite SAT/ACT score, the average score of the colleges attended by graduates, and the percentage of graduates who go on to attend a four-year college. You can read more about Niche's methodology here.

Here are the top 50 schools, presented with their composite SAT range, which refers to the range of SAT scores that correspond with the school's composite ACT score.

50. Cistercian Preparatory School — Irving, Texas

Composite SAT range: 2140-2210

At the all-boys Cistercian Preparatory School, many classes are led by monks, and the curriculum weaves together both academic and religious teachings. Students took 25 different Advanced Placement classes last year, and 93% earned a 3 or higher on the corresponding exams.

49. Choate Rosemary Hall — Wallingford Town, Connecticut

Composite SAT range: 2020-2070

Not only does Choate offer an impressive amount of Advanced Placement options — 27 — but 81% of students score either a 4 or 5 on the exams. Students can also participate in one of Choate's Signature Programs, which immerses the student in an area they're particularly interested in, such as the environment or Arabic and Middle Eastern studies.

48. The Kinkaid School — Houston, Texas

Composite SAT range: 2080-2130

The beginning of January consists of "interim term," a three-week period in which students have opportunities to travel internationally, complete internships, and take courses in subjects not typically offered. In both classes and extracurriculars, Kinkaid operates via four core values: honesty, responsibility, respect, and kindness.

You see it in real life cases like Google, Apple, and Facebook. You see it in shows like HBO's Silicon Valley: A computer genius, working alone or in a group, comes up with an incredible idea that changes everything. Fame, success, and controversy follow.

But if, like me, you don't know how to write a line of code, don't worry — you can still get in on the Silicon Valley magic money-making machine. Here are some successful startups founded by non-technical people, taken largely from the speaking roster of the upcoming HustleCon, a conference for non-technical folks in a technical world.

Pandora: Tim Westergren

Pandora Internet Radio started out of the Music Genome Project, an ambitious idea to identify the many, many characteristics of music so that people could create custom radio stations with the music they liked and nothing they don't. When buyers like Barnes and Noble and Tower Records passed on the technology, Pandora went into business as a radio station for itself. 

Tim Westergren was supposed to the musical third of the original three-man team, but stayed with the company and ended up as CEO. Today, Pandora has 81 million users and $900 million in annual revenue. 

iCracked: AJ Forsythe

AJ Forsythe started iCracked, an iPhone repair service, from his college dorm room at California Polytechnic State University. He taught himself how to fix his own phone using parts ordered from Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba, and decided it had the makings of a solid business. He had his frat brothers help market the first version of iCracked with flyers made in MS Paint, and the rest is history. 

Today, iCracked sends one of its 1,600 certified "iTechs" across the country straight to customers on demand to help them fix their phones for a flat $100. Interestingly, iCracked takes none of that money from the techs — they just sell them the parts to do the fixing. It's working, too, as iCracked boasts that it makes $25 million in annual revenue.

Coffee Meets Bagel: Arum, Dawoon, and Soo Kang

The Kang sisters — Arum, Dawoon, and Soo — decided to start a company together in 2011 after Arum finished her degree at Harvard Business School. After kicking ideas around, they landed on Coffee Meets Bagel, a free dating app that gives people a single solitary match every day, with additional features for sale.

So far, Coffee Meets Bagel has raised $11.2 million in venture funding, and made headlines when it turned down a $30 million purchase offer from famed venture capitalist Mark Cuban on TV's Shark Tank. None of the three sisters has a background in computer science or engineering — Arum and Dawoon hold MBAs, and Soo is a designer.

The world's biggest financial sectors feature some stalwarts — like New York, London and Tokyo — that have stayed way at the top of any rankings for decades.

But there are also dozens of challengers in the developing world that are giving the giants a run for their money, and are giving international investors access to some of the world's fast-growing financial markets.

Some of the fastest-growing are in east Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

We took the Global Financial Cities Index released in March 2015 and compared it to the same publication when it was released five years ago, to find out which of the hubs are moving up the ranks most quickly.

10. ALMATY — Kazakhstan's biggest city has risen 9 places since joining the index in 2009, and it's ahead of Moscow or Warsaw.

9. BANGKOK — Thailand's capital has climbed 11 places since 2010, though it has taken a hit during Thailand's more recent political instability.

8. KUALA LUMPUR — Up 13 places since 2010, the Malaysian capital is taking a bigger position as an Asian financial centre.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange will be closing its futures pits after 117 years.

The closure will usher in a completely electronic era for one of the most iconic exchanges in the world.

Here is a look at everything that made this organized chaos great. 

The trading pit is where all of the screaming and yelling takes place.

The trading pit was first introduced at the Milwaukee Grain Exchange in the 1870s as a way to concentrate market participants.

A Chicago man attempted to patent the concept in 1878, but his patent was invalidated after requesting licensing fees from the major exchanges. However, his patent filing describes the purpose of the pit's function:

"Thus constructed the pit may be filled without inconvenience in the way of crowding. It also furnishes sufficient standing-room, where persons may stand and conveniently trade with persons in any other part of the pit or platforms. It has great acoustic advantages over a flat floor for trading, and it furnishes superior facilities for heating and ventilation."

Traders wear jackets to help identify who you are doing business with.

The riot of color that characterized trading floors came from the traders' trading jackets. 

These jackets were communication devices in themselves, designed to be sufficiently eye-catching to stand out visually from the rest of the crowd. 

The standard red was given to traders (also called locals) and brokers on the floor, but many opted for their own distinct jacket designs worn by their entire group. 

Clerks, runners, and trade checkers received yellow coats while exchange employees were given light blue or dark blue coats.

Clearing firms employ runners, trade checkers, and desk brokers but also handle customer funds and clear trades.

Role: In addition to employing runners, trade checkers, and desk brokers, a clearing firm provides the processing infrastructure for trades and also handles the customer’s funds. Most prominently, clearing firms are responsible for risk management of traders and assume the liability if a trader doesn't have sufficient funds.  

Impact of electronic trading: Increased purpose and remain even more relevant than before as services increased by offering technology alongside trade clearing and processing.

In a new report on wealth in America, wealth intelligence firm Wealth-X revealed that California has more super-wealthy residents than New York. 

California now has 13,445 people who are worth more than $30 million, while New York has only 9,530. Texas (6,475) and Florida (4,650) followed in third and fourth place.

However, when it came to cities, New York City has the largest amount of high net worth individuals in the United States with a population of 8,655. It was followed distantly by San Francisco with 5,460 and Los Angeles with 5,135.

Another interesting tidbit from the report was that the Dakotas saw a significant increase in their millionaire and billionaire population from 2013. The population of people earning more than $30 million swelled by 14.3% in North Dakota and 13.3% in South Dakota — the largest and second largest increase in the country, respectively.

Though Wealth-X said these numbers were fairly small — a rise in 10 ultra net worth individuals for North Dakota and 20 for South Dakota — it could mean that existing businesses are becoming increasingly profitable.

In total, the US is home to 69,560 people who are worth more than $30 million with a total combined wealth of $9.63 billion.

America also has the largest population of these high net worth individuals in the world. For instance, there are more people worth over $30 million in California alone than there are in the entire United Kingdom, according to Wealth-X.

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If you want to work at one of the hottest private tech companies in the world, you're going to have to answer a few questions first.

We've shown you how long Uber's application process can be: To become a General Manager — someone who launches and leads a team in a brand-new city for Uber — you'll be taking a timed, two-hour analytics test.

For more creative positions, like Uber's Marketing Manager position, you may be asked to create a brand new marketing campaign for Uber.

Unlike companies like Google, which are infamous for their giving candidates impossible brainteaser interview questions, Uber's questions to potential hires are more straightforward. Using Glassdoor, we've compiled questions from Uber's interview candidates.

"How do you handle working with people who are extremely upset or not happy with you/your company?" - Community Marketing Manager candidate

"Are you prepared to sacrifice your personal life and relationships to work here 80-90 hours a week?" - Community Operations Manager candidate

"Say an Uber black car driver makes $30/ride with a 20% commission. How do you convince him to upgrade to a new made-up service UberSuper with a 25% commission? What costs will the driver incur in upgrading? How much more will he have to make each week, etc.?" - Uber Operations and Logistics Manager interview candidate

TripAdvisor just announced the winners of its 2015 Travelers’ Choice awards for Destinations.

Millions of TripAdvisor users weighed in and voted for their top travel destinations around the world.

For the first time, travelers ranked Marrakech, Morocco, as the top travel destination in the world. Last year, it ranked at No. 6. And while perennial favorites like Paris and Rome made the list, newcomers like Cusco, Peru, and Queenstown, New Zealand, also made appearances.

Winners were based on millions of TripAdvisor reviews of hotels, attractions and restaurants for different cities over a 12-month period.

25. Sydney, Australia

24. Dubai, United Arab Emirates

23. Hong Kong, China

Britain's government hailed the fact that there are no longer any all-male boards on the FTSE 100 as progress among the UK's largest companies.

The annual report by Lord Davies of Abersoch, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, showed that female representation on corporate boards almost doubled to 23.5% of all directors, from only 12.5% in 2011.

This is on track for the government target of 25% by later this year.

However, Minister for Women and Equalities Nicky Morgan highlighted in a statement that the UK's largest companies have a long way to go. "This is great news. But to keep on track we also need to ensure that women are well represented at senior executive level too, making them ready to take up board level positions," she said.

That's true. Currently, there are only FIVE female FTSE 100 CEOs. 

Moya Greene, 60, became the CEO of Royal Mail in 2010. She was not only the first female boss at Royal Mail but the Canadian was also the first non-British CEO at the delivery firm.

Alison Cooper, 48, became the boss of Imperial Tobacco in 2010. She joined the company in 1999 as group finance manager. She famously drinks Guinness and smokes cigars.

Carolyn McCall, 54, became the leader of Easyjet in 2010. The India-born only child of British parents was also the Guardian Media Group's CEO from 2006 until her Easyjet appointment.