This decline, 1.56percentt, left the broad index ahead for 1998 by a little more than 20percentt, compared with 11.8percentt for the Dow industrials and 28.4percentt for Nasdaq.
In a survey of 53,000 children aged 10 to 12 in 15 countries, including Ethiopia, Germany, Israel, Estonia, Turkey, South Africa, Poland, and Algeria, English children came next to bottom in the happiness index, ahead only of South Korea.
Sweden tops the annual web index, ahead of Norway, and followed by the UK, US and New Zealand.
Simon Gleave, head of analysis at Gracenote Sport, said: "Barcelona remain the favourites to win this season's Champions League according to the Euro Club Index ahead of Juventus, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain.
George Mason is No. 20 in the Ratings Percentage Index, ahead of teams like Villanova, Louisville and U.C.L.A., and it will probably receive an at-large bid to the N.C.A.A. tournament if it does not win the Colonial Athletic Association tournament.
In September 2011, Al-Wasat won the UNICEF regional award for electronic media and in May 2012, it was ranked top in the Media Credibility Index ahead of Al Jazeera, BBC, Agence France-Presse and more than a dozen other media outlets.
For two years in a row, it has ranked eighth in the Charity Aid Foundation's World Giving Index, ahead of any other developing nation.
In 2009, the Tax Justice Network named the United States as No. 1 on its Financial Secrecy Index, ahead of Luxembourg and Switzerland.
For the year, the index is ahead 2.1percentt.
