by Anna Fleck 47 media professionals have been killed in 2024 so far due to their journalistic activities, according to the…
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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…
by Katharina Buchholz, If you think feminism is a firmly established and respected concept globally, think again. In a recent survey…
by Thomas Hinton, Based on the number of inbound leisure trips recorded each country France is the world’s most popular place…
by Anna Fleck, Although gender parity is headed in the right direction globally, it’s at a sluggish pace, with the World Economic…
by Anna Fleck, By far the largest employer of children in child labor is agriculture. This is according to a report published jointly by…
by Florian Zandt, Generative AI, especially the products released or announced by tech corporations like Microsoft, Alphabet or Meta and the…
by Anna Fleck, Indonesia has entered accession talks with the OECD, as it hopes to become one of the organization’s next…
by Anna Fleck, In just two decades, the global annual production of plastic waste has doubled from 180 million tonnes to…
by Anna Fleck, Worldwide, some 30 million square kilometers of coastal waters were listed as marine protected areas in 2023, representing…
by Anna Fleck, China was the world’s biggest extractor of domestic materials in 2023, according to the UNEP’s Global Material Flows Database.…
by Anna Fleck, This year’s edition of ‘The World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ by publishing group William Reed Business Media was…
by Anna Fleck, Tea is the second most widely consumed drink around the world, coming in only after water. The FAO estimates…
by Felix Richter The world’s 10 highest-paid athletes earned a record-breaking $1.38 billion between May 2023 and May 2024, as the…
by Anna Fleck Raw tobacco production is a huge industry. In 2022 alone, around 5.8 million tons of tobacco were produced worldwide,…
by Katharina Buchholz, After global food prices had climbed to unprecedented highs in 2022, as lurking effects of the Covid-19 pandemic…
by Martin Armstrong, At least 735 million people were affected by hunger in 2022, according to the most recent report from the Food…
by Anna Fleck The Turkish capital of Istanbul was the world’s most visited city in 2023, according to data by Euromonitor International. With…
by Anna Fleck, China is yet to fully recover from its pandemic-induced travel slump, with projections forecasting outbound tourism to be back on…
by Katharina Buchholz In a survey of 38 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 21 and 44 percent of…
by Florian Zandt While not quite a duopoly, Apple and Samsung have long been known to produce the most popular smartphones from a global perspective.…
by Felix Richter, A week after Google unveiled the new Pixel 8a, the company’s latest addition to its smartphone line-up is…
by Anna Fleck, Asia is the world’s largest market for industrial robotics, with nearly three quarters of all newly deployed robots…
by Felix Richter Ever since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 and other AI tools that have followed in its…
by Felix Richter Over the past decade, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have surged in popularity. These automated…
by Felix Richter, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris on Sunday, kicking off a three-country visit to Europe, his first…
by Katharina Buchholz, Despite motorized rickshaws being a popular symbol associated with India, the country only became the biggest seller of…
by Anna Fleck May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States. According to the National Alliance on Mental…
by Katharina Buchholz, People working in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Jamaica are most likely to have a female boss. This is…
by Anna Fleck, Five more people, including a child, died when trying to cross the English Channel by boat last Tuesday…
by Katharina Buchholz, The global e-commerce market is dominated by China. According to data from eCommerceDB, the country’s total online retail sales amounted up…
by Katharina Buchholz According to the Statista Market Insights, more than 15 percent of food sales in Denmark are of organic…
by Katharina Buchholz, This year’s Earth Day, held on April 22, has the motto “Planet vs. Plastics”. One area where the…
by Katharina Buchholz, One of the major challenges facing India right now is unemployment. This will be a major sticking point for younger…
by Anna Fleck April 15 is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promoting the development and enjoyment of art. The…
by Anna Fleck, Less than half of OECD countries ban anonymous donations for political financing, according to data published in the Anti-Corruption…
by Anna Fleck China is the world’s biggest hydro power producer, having generated an estimated 1,303 terawatt hours of hydropower in…
by Florian Zandt, “Smoking kills” is but one of the slogans connected to anti-tobacco advocacy groups — and it’s quite true.…
by Katharina Buchholz, Chinese EVs continuing to make inroads around the world is reflected in the country’s car export figures which have been…
by Anna Fleck, According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, as of April 2, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia,…
by Felix Richter, Despite the fact that Wall Street’s hopes for a first rate cut in March turned out to be…
by Anna Fleck, As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to Statista’s Advertising & Media Market Insights, 41 percent of global media sales were generated digitally last year…
by Katharina Buchholz, In many countries, the drastic step of shutting down the internet is employed in response to actual or…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to SIPRI data, China has increased its military expenditure by almost 900 percent since 1992. At around…
by Anna Fleck, Ramadan starts on Sunday evening, with the first day of fasting on Monday, March 11 this year. The holy…
by Anna Fleck Soy, alongside cattle, palm oil, and wood products are the main commodities driving tropical deforestation globally, concentrated in different countries…
by Anna Fleck An investigation by the environmental and human rights group Global Witness, first reported by the BBC, has revealed that…
by Anna Fleck Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and most suppressed nations.…