Good morning and welcome to the simple Sophisticus weekend edition Aukuron Weekly.

I'm your host Shannon Ables and part of living well is being in the know, whether it's

being knowledgeable of news from around the world or informed of goings

on right in your own community, because it's not what you think, it's that you think.

All of the information shared in each week's A-Corant Weekly will enable you to go forth into the weekend

ready for either an engaging conversation or being mindful of the most recent current events.

From that point it is your job to formulate your very own

opinion. So thank you for joining me and in fewer than 15 minutes I will have you

a kurra. Let's get started.

Welcome to Sunday, January 24th, 2016. We have a lot of news to get to today, so I want to get

get right into it, especially inter-international. We have a laundry list the world economic forum in

Davo Switzerland released this past Wednesday the top countries to live in looking

at 60 countries around the world and using 24 different categories

compiled into nine broader categories. More than 16,000 people were

surveyed. The nine categories consisted of adventure, citizenship, cultural influence, entrepreneurship,

heritage, movers, open for business, power, and quality of life.

The top five countries in reverse order are number five Sweden, number four the

United States, number three the United Kingdom number two, and number one is Germany.

Moving on to Brazil, a mosquito-born virus named Zika is raising concern and prompting for a Latin American countries to ask women to delay pregnancy

for up to two years.

As an outbreak has taken place in Brazil with 4,000 cases discovered since October, with babies born with

microcephaly or abnormally small heads has been on the rise. Confirmed by

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