The researchers poll 1,000 people per nation. They are asked to rank several issues on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the best. The first cut at the data includes GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and perceptions of corruption. The researchers then take more slices of the data. This is broken into eight chapters.
At least 127 civilians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since a ceasefire was declared nearly a year ago, the UN has said as it called for an impartial investigation into the strikes. We continue to witness increasing attacks by the Israeli military, resulting in the killing of civilians and destruction of civilian objects in Lebanon, coupled with alarming threats of a wider, intensified offensive, said Thameen Al-Kheetan, a spokesperson for the UN human rights office, at a Geneva press briefing.
The economy of the occupied Palestinian territory is facing its most severe collapse on record, driven by the scale of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and continued restrictions on movement and trade, according to a new United Nations report. Published on Monday, the report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said two years of Israeli military operations and longstanding curbs have pushed the occupied territory into an economic downturn now ranked among the 10 worst collapses recorded globally since 1960.
S&P 500 futures were down 0.19% after the index closed up 1.55% yesterday. Asia was mixed this morning and Europe followed by moving flat-to-down in early trading. Crypto may be suffering from a significant shift in sentiment: until October 6 this year, Bitcoin and gold had moved up together, though certainly not in tandem. However, both rose on a "safe haven" narrative as stocks soared, despite worries that the tech companies driving them are fuelling an AI bubble.
Just on twilight the pink ball talks a little bit more and the game goes through massive ebbs and flows, Bartlett said. You see wickets falling in clumps. You've got to stay in it and make the most of that middle session. If the Test wicket is like the one we just played on it will be a really good cricket wicket. We got a result in three days but when you bat well you get rewarded and if you bowl well it's the same.
Conflicting claims come before the release of official results by the country's electoral commission. The two leading candidates in Guinea-Bissau's presidential election incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embalo and main challenger Fernando Dias have both declared victory before the release of official results. Both campaigns had claimed on Monday that their contender exceeded the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright, eliminating the need for a run-off.
A new assessment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded that corruption in Pakistan is behind an economic crisis driven by state capture where public policy is manipulated to benefit a narrow circle of political and business elites. The Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Assessment (GCDA), finalised in November 2025, presents a grim picture of a system marked by dysfunctional institutions that are unable to enforce the rule of law or safeguard public resources.
From the 1940s until the 2000s, 2,000 tons of ammunition fell every year on Vieques, a small island in the Puerto Rican archipelago. The U.S. Navy transformed this Caribbean paradise of crystal-clear waters into the most realistic recreation possible of a war zone: after expelling thousands of residents and taking control of two-thirds of the island and its resources, the navy established there a training base and a firing range to conduct artillery tests and other military exercises
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Monday that "the list of necessary steps to end the war can become doable" after progress was made in Sunday's talks between U.S. and Ukrainian delegates in Geneva. He said he planned to discuss "sensitive" outstanding issues with President Donald Trump. Rustem Umerov, a senior adviser to Zelensky, wrote on social platform X on Tuesday that the Ukrainian leader hoped to finalize a deal with Trump "at the earliest suitable date in November."
The shocking claims were made by filmmaker and director Dan Farah, who spent four years secretly interviewing high-level members of the US government and military regarding the existence of extraterrestrials. While speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Friday, Farah said he had learned from unnamed sources responsible for the retrieval of these UFOs that nuclear testing carried out in the 1950s was often done to secretly disable alien craft.
Two mountain climbers have died on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, with two others from the same group rescued, authorities said. The climbers' bodies have been found and specialist searchers were working to recover them in a challenging alpine environment, the police area commander Inspector Vicki Walker said on Tuesday. None of the climbers have been publicly identified. Sgt Kevin McErlain told the Timaru Herald the pair had been connected by a rope when they fell near the summit of Aoraki, also known as Mount Cook.
The trade policy of U.S. President Donald Trump has upended the commercial relationships that countries spent decades building through layers of diplomacy. The so-called reciprocal tariffs that Trump imposed broadly on the famous April 2 of this year are still evolving. The crude chart he presented to the world on the day the president dubbed Liberation Day became obsolete within just a few months. The White House is constantly shifting its trade policy, making changes that are leaving traders stunned.
South Africa and Ireland played out a slugfest for the ages and the discourse has been dominated by yellow cards and flying shoulders to the head. England held off a spirited Argentina to claim their 11th consecutive Test win and it seems all anyone can talk about is some alleged after-the-whistle shoving. Wales and New Zealand traded 11 tries in a ding-dong encounter and yet the narrative is weighed down by caveats concerning fading empires.
When I visited the king of Bukumu, Mwami Butsitsi Kahembe IV Isaac, he was dressed in a crisp white caftan, with the skin of a leopard killed by his great-grandfather slung over his shoulders. A crown of matching fur sat on his head, and an ivory-tipped scepter announced his rank. The surroundings were less elegant. The king told me ruefully that his ancestral palace had been destroyed thirty years ago by combatants from the Hutu tribe,
"The IDF failed in its primary mission on October 7th to protect the civilians of the State of Israel," Zamir said, referring to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). "This is a severe, resounding, systemic failure, relating to decisions and conduct on the eve of the event and during it," he said. "The lessons of that day are numerous and significant, and they must serve as our compass for the future toward which I intend to lead the IDF."
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday that 50 pupils had escaped and had been reunited with their families days after they were abducted from a Catholic school in central Niger state. So what do we know about the latest abductions? And why are children being targeted by armed groups? Gunmen abducted 303 children and 12 teachers during an attack on Saint Mary's Catholic School in Nigeria's north-central Niger state, according to CAN, the largest Christian organisation in the country.
A senior delegation from Hamas has met Egypt's intelligence chief in Cairo to discuss Israel's breaches of the ceasefire agreement, the group said, as Palestinians in Gaza held funerals for dozens of people killed in recent Israeli attacks. In a statement on Sunday, the group said it reaffirmed its commitment to implementing the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in its meeting with Hassan Rashad, but accused Israel of continued violations that it said threatened to undermine the deal.
Malaysia plans to ban social media for users under the age of 16 starting from next year, joining a growing list of countries choosing to limit access to digital platforms due to concerns about child safety. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said on Sunday the government was reviewing mechanisms used to impose age restrictions for social media use in Australia and other nations, citing a need to protect youths from online harms such as cyberbullying, financial scams and child sexual abuse.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Geneva that a tremendous amount of progress was made during talks in the Swiss city on Sunday and that he was very optimistic that an agreement could be reached in a very reasonable period of time, very soon. Rubio also said that specific areas still being worked on from a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, championed by US President Donald Trump, included the role of NATO and security guarantees for Ukraine.
In spring last year, Ana's* friends began to disappear. Members of an armed group had begun recruiting children in her village in Colombia's north-west region of Norte de Santander, promising them food, money, mobile phones and motorcycles. They began taking all of the young people, the boys and the girls, my friends from school. I was so scared, I had to shut myself away, says Ana, then 14.
