Oslo tops list of world’s most expensive cities:

Eight of the ten costliest cities world wide are located in Europe according to a recent survey from The Economist Group Oslo topped the list of the most expensive, followed by Paris, Copenhagen, Denmark, and London, two Japanese cities broke into the top ten: Tokyo – which claimed the top spot in 2005 and came in second last year – at fifth and Osaka Kobe at sixth. Reykjavik, Iceland, Zurich, Switzerland, Frankfurt, Germany, Helsinki and Finland rounded out the ten.