Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused a regional bloc known as ECOWAS of having double standards in punishing their military ...

Concerns persist over recent and potential conflicts in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and potential conflagrations in Asia.

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Despite this country being one of the largest in the world, most of its huge population has stuck to living on one side of ...

GDP per capita PPP is a helpful tool to pinpoint the poorest countries in the world. Smaller and less powerful countries in challenging regions are among the bottom ten economies. Liberia and Chad ...

The world is so flat today that when social media users are denied access to a platform, they will flow like quicksilver to another platform. According to statista.com, by October 2024 ...

A further 47 countries are partially out of bounds. It is hard to recall a time when so much of the world was off-limits due to war, terrorism and unrest. It isn’t all bad news. The security ...

CEOWORLD magazine has published a report aimed at helping individuals improve their financial and mental health by identifying the most and least stressed countries in the world. This report ...

Japan and India rank next to China in Asia's GDP rankings. 4. What are the top 10 richest countries in the world? The top 10 richest countries in the world by GDP per capita are as follows: ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Countries representing most of the world’s shipping fleet have backed a flat tax on every tonne of the ...

The number of states with a flat rate income tax has grown by more than 50% over the past decade, rising from nine in 2013 to 14 in 2024. On New Year’s Day 2025, the ranks of flat income tax ...