There are 13 cities on the list and all of them are in Europe. The ranking is made based on the best balance between people's work and their leisure time. It takes into account the number of hours that people work per week and per year along with the number of days they take on holidays.

Do you feel more alive today? The Christmas holidays are starting to inch away and New Years is peeking around the corner.  Here are some pictures to help you inch a little closer to the New Year.

Rough Waters

The latest hobby of many fashion designers is to ask plus-sized models to introduce their clothes at a fashion show. This time Paris Fashion Week’s guests were surprised to see Beth Ditto appearing at the catwalk in tight dresses and costumes created by grand couturier Jean Paul Gaultier. Unlike the usual 'plus-sized models' - who are size 14 or 16 - Beth is around a size 28.

According to Gaultier, Paris Fashion Week 2010 demonstrates the contrast difference between the worlds of XXL and XXS.

Fashion Weeks hold in many countries across the world can be surprisingly tasteless. Would you wear anything from these collections?

Full Figured Fashion Week took place in New York on June 16.

Plus models presented fashionable and trendy collections of designers from across the nation.