by Katharina Buchholz According to a report recently released by the International Renewable Energy Agency, more than 16 million people globally work in…
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by Felix Richter To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first international football tournament with representation of all regions, which took…
by Katharina Buchholz The Covid-19 pandemic saw international enrollment at U.S. higher education institutions dip majorly, but the number of international students has…
by Anna Fleck U.S. President Donald Trump’s four-day trip to the Middle East last week included visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar…
by Felix Richter, As buying a home is becoming more and more unattainable, a car is very high up on the list of…
by Anna Fleck, India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a major water-sharing agreement brokered by the World Bank.…
by Katharina Buchholz Global electric car sales almost tripled over the past three years. They had previously doubled between 2020 and 2021, driven…
by Anna Fleck, India and Pakistan, currently experiencing a ceasefire after clashes along their disputed border, have caught global attention…
by Katharina Buchholz Asians work from home the least in a global comparison, while college-educated workers from English-speaking countries and Africa do so…
by Felix Richter, VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated on May 8 each year to mark the formal…
by Katharina Buchholz, Cloud computing has changed the status of network hardware like servers and data storage from a common…
by Anna Fleck, Even before the economic uncertainty ushered in this past week by U.S. President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs, many people…
by Felix Richter Inflation in the U.S. moderated more than expected in March, as both headline inflation and the core index…
by Katharina Buchholz In 2020, there were five U.S. entries among the cities with the biggest consumer spending in the world. By 2040,…
by Anna Fleck Global electricity demand from data centers is expected to more than double in the next five years, largely…
by Felix Richter As part of the retaliation against Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, China has imposed new export…
by Felix Richter Nvidia’s share price dropped nearly 17 percent on Monday, as the release of DeepSeek-R1 – a Chinese AI…
by Katharina Buchholz, Chinese company DeepSeek disrupted the AI market with the launch of its R1 model last week. As a result, the Nasdaq…
by Katharina Buchholz, The UK’s Oxford University was names the world’s best university in the latest global ranking released by Times Higher Education on Wednesday.…
by Anna Fleck, Canada, the United States and Finland announced a new trilateral partnership called the “ICE Pact” (or Icebreaker Collaboration…
by Katharina Buchholz, The latest global university ranking has been released by Times Higher Education, putting the UK’s Oxford University at the top of…
by Felix Richter, Four and a half years after Donald Trump’s first attempt of withdrawing the United States from the World…
by Felix Richter, Over the next 10 years, climate change and its consequences will pose the greatest risk to the world. That’s according…
by Anna Fleck Distrust of the news is particularly widespread in the United States and France. According to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights, one…
by Anna Fleck, Singapore has the most powerful passport in the world, with its citizens able to visit 195 countries and…
by Anna Fleck According to the Global Energy Monitor, the world’s total nuclear power capacity is currently at 396 gigawatts (GW), with a further…
by Anna Fleck, In a survey of 21 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 19 and 46 percent of…
by Felix Richter 2024 was another great year for the so-called “Magnificent Seven”, a group of mega-cap tech companies that dominate…
by Anna Fleck, Eight in ten people agree that the average global temperature will increase in 2025, according to an Ipsos survey of…
by Anna Fleck, If the last years have shown us anything, it’s that a lot can change, fast. While many events…
by Anna Fleck 2024 will be another year not forgotten any time soon. A look at the biggest trending Google searches can serve…
by Anna Fleck The lightning offensive by various Syrian rebel groups that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on…
by Anna Fleck Canada is the leading country worldwide for essential healthcare coverage, according to The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health…
by Felix Richter International Anti-Corruption Day is observed annually on December 9 to raise awareness about the harmful effects of corruption…
by Florian Zandt At 4.3 million metric tonnes of loaded and unloaded international air freight, Hong Kong International Airport remains the…
by Anna Fleck According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 1.19 million people die in road accidents around the world each year. The…
by Florian Zandt The airports with the highest number of embarking and disembarking passengers in 2023 have largely regained their pre-pandemic…
by Anna Fleck The state of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has worsened globally since 2021, according to the 2023 IUU Fishing…
by Anna Fleck, How many years can we expect to enjoy our retirement in good health? According to calculations by Statista,…
by Felix Richter While “Made in China” has become a staple of our everyday lives, with everything from our phones to…
by Anna Fleck, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, chairperson of the Adani Group, is currently embroiled in a fraud scandal. Last week,…
by Katharina Buchholz The U.S. international adoption landscape has changed fundamentally in the past years as fewer and fewer children arrive…
by Felix Richter, The release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022 and the many AI-powered tools that followed in its tracks have…
by Anna Fleck, According to OECD data, South Korea has the most work to do in order to close the gender wage…
by Florian Zandt Toyota generated $298.3 billion in revenues between April 2023 and March 2024, more than double the amount of Honda,…
by Thomas Hinton, Travel and tourism was already a fast-growing sector before the pandemic temporarily, albeit drastically, stunted its seemingly unstoppable progress. For…
by Felix Richter Despite inflation cooling to the lowest level in more than three years in recent months, there’s no way…
by Anna Fleck 47 media professionals have been killed in 2024 so far due to their journalistic activities, according to the…
by Felix Richter, When leaders of the newly expanded BRICS group meet in Kazan, Russia, this week, one of the talking…
by Anna Fleck, Global growth is expected to remain “stable yet underwhelming” in 2024 and 2025, at a steady 3.2 percent,…
by Katharina Buchholz, In the year 2030, Millennials or even Gen Z members are expected to be contributing the largest share…
by Katharina Buchholz, A world map showing the most common origins of immigrants by country reveals some prolific immigrant nations as well as…
by Felix Richter Child poverty continues to be most prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, as the region accounted for more than 70…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to the United Nations, global food systems as well as food packaging and distribution are responsible for…
by Anna Fleck Four in ten people in India follow either a vegetarian or a vegan diet, according to data by…
by Anna Fleck, Digital audio streaming has taken off in a big way in the past ten years. According to Statista’s Digital…
by Katharina Buchholz, World leaders frequently rub shoulders with the rich and famous, but does that mean they themselves can be…
by Anna Fleck, Around 13 percent of global food is estimated to be lost each year from the farm up to…
by Florian Zandt Despite recent jumps in valuation for generative artificial intelligence company OpenAI and Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, ByteDance…
by Florian Zandt, Between 2014 and September 25, 2024, more than 30,000 people either died or went missing in the Western,…
by Katharina Buchholz, Established financial centers have lost some of their shine in the past decade according to the Global Financial Centres Index by…
by Katharina Buchholz Indian unveiled its second nuclear-powered submarine last week in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The domestically produced vessel is armed with ballistic…
by Katharina Buchholz, Megaprojects have been growing larger globally and many of them have recently centered on the Arab Gulf Region. Construction…
by Anna Fleck, Saudi Arabia is planning to build a two-kilometer-high skyscraper on a site north of the capital city of…
by Anna Fleck, Rights for women are fast deteriorating in Afghanistan. In the latest major setback, a new set of vice…
by Anna Fleck, The first time a nuclear weapon was used in war was August 6, 1945, when the United States…
by Katharina Buchholz More than half of people in European countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden and the Czech Republic…
by Anna Fleck Hong Kong is the city with the most skyscrapers measuring over 150 meters tall in the world, according…
by Katharina Buchholz, China is a world leader for many things and that includes high-speed trains. While it’s regular long-distance trains…
by Anna Fleck, Asia is the global trailblazer of plant milk substitutes. According to data from Statista’s Market Insights, the region was estimated…
by Florian Zandt, On August 19, a group of dock worker unions in India encompassing 20,000 members called for a general,…
by Anna Fleck, IFPI’s landmark Engaging with Music 2023 report provides insight to the music industry from the perspective of fans, with survey…
by Anna Fleck, Friday 16 marked the 25th anniversary of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The televised game show was…
by Thomas Hinton, Small businesses play an undisputedly important role in the economy, they represent about 90% of businesses and provide more…
by Felix Richter „Honey, did you pack the camera?” That or similar inquiries among spouses used to be a staple of…
by Anna Fleck, According to Bill Gates’ blog, between 2011 and 2013, China consumed more concrete than the United States did in the…
by Felix Richter, After two and a half weeks of competitions and more than 1,000 medals given out to athletes from…
by Anna Fleck, The 2024 Paris Olympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony along the River Seine tonight, where Lady Gaga and…
by Katharina Buchholz Every spring, the clocks in several countries around the world change by one hour and don’t change back until the…
by Florian Zandt, In 2023, 118 million passengers departed from United States airports according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, most of…
by Florian Zandt Launched in 2018, the anti-HIV drug Biktarvy has established itself as a revenue heavyweight for the U.S. company…
by Anna Fleck Spotify, the Swedish-based podcast and music streaming platform, released its Q2 earnings for 2024 on Monday. Since its launch 16…
by Anna Fleck Samsung has released its improved flip phones, the Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6, which both incorporate AI elements.…
by Felix Richter, In recent years, there has been a significant increase in global awareness regarding the environmental impact of consumption.…
by Anna Fleck, Seven in ten people will live in urban areas by 2050, according to predictions by the UN Population Division. That’s…
by Anna Fleck, In its latest annual report, Swiss bank UBS shows that while there has been a mixed picture in the…
by Katharina Buchholz, In late June, the U.S. carried out a rare mass deportation – to China. According to The Guardian, the…
by Florian Zandt, While living in Switzerland is roughly 25 percent cheaper than in New York City according to Numbeo’s Cost of…
by Florian Zandt, On July 5 1994, Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos and originally envisioned as an online book store. Now, it…
by Anna Fleck, Each year, The Economist publishes a ranking of the cities with the best living conditions. In 2024, the…