World in numbers

By Victoria Honeyman THE CONVERSATION – When Rishi Sunak lost to Liz Truss in the first Conservative Party leadership race of 2022, few were surprised. Many of the people given the chance ...

Britain’s main equity indexes closed higher on Monday as Rishi Sunak looked set to become the next prime minister after other candidates quit the race, offering investors some relief ...

London shares rose on Monday as new finance minister Jeremy Hunt reversed Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic plan announced three weeks ago that slammed UK markets and dented investor ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said the United States and the global economy could tip into a recession by the middle of the next year, ...

British government bond yields surged by the most in a day in over three decades on Friday, the pound slid to a fresh 37-year trough against the dollar and stocks ...

Low-income Britons will see few benefits from the historic tax cuts announced by the country’s new finance minister on Friday, union leaders and anti-poverty campaigners said, warning that the ...

The Buffalo supermarket shooting, the massacre of elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas, the attack on a doctor and bystanders in Tulsa, Okla., and the workplace shooting at a Maryland ...

Data from the Central Bank of Russia shows that the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves have been increasing for some time. While at the beginning of 2018 the reserves ...

As the coronavirus crisis is wearing off in many parts of the world, supply chain troubles are increasing once more for many companies, mainly concerning the U.S. and the ...

Successful business enterprises are the key to the wealth of the world’s richest families. According to a ranking by Bloomberg, three American families top the ranking of world’s ...

The OECD’s latest Education at a Glance report has found that England has the highest university tuition fees in the world. OECD countries tend to have different approaches to ...

Although the video streaming service Netflix is available in over 190 countries, many markets are still underdeveloped. To further push acceptance in African countries, the streaming giant recently announced a free ...

The OECD’s latest edition of its “Education at a Glance” report provides an insight into education systems on all of the organization’s member states. One interesting aspect of ...

The Chinese special administrative region of Macau is well-known for its gambling tourism. With the government of the People’s Republic potentially tightening regulations following a public consultation concerning the ...