CNN points out that strong local currencies powered Sydney and Melbourne toward the top of the list, each rising four places from their 2012 spots.
"In recent decades, chemical weapons have slowly been de-legitimised as a currency of power.
In Catholicism, reason exists in tension with faith science jostles with revelation and the Church's currency and power reside in faith.
By winning against the odds, and with such panache, he becomes Rome's Michael Jordan, its Tom Cruise, translating his celebrity into cultural currency and power.
"Should women simply grow old naturally, since their looks don't define them, or should they fight the signs of aging, since beauty and youth are their currency and power?" the authors ask in their book.
Sarraj, present at the talks in Vienna, is battling against currency shortages, power blackouts and political distrust, to prove it can be an effective government in which the Libyan people can invest.
When asked why the country would want to embark on such a costly venture, a South African nuclear official once responded, "Reprocessing is the currency of power in the modern world!" Meanwhile, Iran insists that it has the same rights as Japan and is building a reactor similar to the one India used to produce the plutonium for its first nuclear bombs.
