The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo.

The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.

The Northern Areas has five of the world's seventeen highest peaks along with highest range of mountains the Karakoram and Himalayas.

In addition the thriving energy sector, the nation controls twenty five ( 25 %) percent of the world's natural gas with a whopping GDP of twenty ( US $ 20. 5b ) billion US dollars.

The Ganz factory had also in the autumn of 1884 made delivery of the world's first five high-efficiency AC transformers, the first of these units having been shipped on September 16, 1884.

The award is the world's largest monetary award for children's and youth literature, in the amount of five million SEK.

In 2009, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and Turkey were the world's five largest sugar beet producers.

Once he was the world's heavyweight champ, Johnson did not fight a black opponent for the first five years of his reign.

The world's longest endurance ride is the Shahzada 400 km Memorial Test which is conducted over five days travelling 80 kilometres a day at St Albans on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer group and one of the top five largest consumer goods companies in the world ; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.

Only five world's fair events have been sanctioned by the B. I. E.

In 2001 it became the world's first suspension bridge to be widened ( from three to five lanes ) using cantilevers, and the world's first bridge to undergo strengthening and widening work while remaining open to traffic.

The world's five smallest sovereign states: Vatican City, Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu and San Marino, shown in the same scale for size comparison

This was described as the five mile world's championship of the sea and the prize was $ 1, 750 prize.

Today, Icaria is considered one of the world's five " Blue Zones "-places where the population regularly lives to an advanced age ( one in three make it to their 90s ).

For the next five years, Evert was the world's No. 1 player.

In November 2006 the Canadian producer Royal DeMaria released five cases of Chardonnay icewine with a half-bottle price set at C $ 30, 000, making it the world's most expensively priced wine.

Down Beat also elected him the world's " No 1 Jazz Pianist " in 1966 ( and were to do so again five further times ).

For example, five towers at the center of the Angkor Wat complex represent the peaks of Mount Meru, the center of the universe ; an outer wall represents the mountains that ring the world's edge ; and a moat depicts the cosmic ocean.

Abramovich has become the world's greatest spender on luxury yachts, and had been linked to five yachts in what the media have called " Abramovich's Navy ":

The circle of fights between these five gladiators actually began on November 30, 1979, when Leonard beat Benitez by knockout in round fifteen to win the WBC world Welterweight title, on the same night Hagler drew ( tied ) with Vito Antuofermo in his first bid to become the world's Middleweight champion.

It takes us all of about five minutes inside to figure out that the " world's most interactive " title is no boast.

An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans.

Some 98 % of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

* 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.

Aon is the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

He also had a well-trained larger army and possessed a substantial part of Nadir Shah's treasury, including the world's largest Koh-i-Noor diamond.

Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.

* List of world's largest cuckoo clocks

The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.

One of the world's largest Bauxite mines in Weipa, Australia

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, over 100, 000 pieces, outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The British Museum has one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100, 000 objects.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Nationwide Building Society is the UK's and the world's largest building society

It was, very probably, the world's largest land battle of the 17th century.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

The world's largest animal, the blue whale, and fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, are chordates.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.