The seventeen-year-old climate activist from Sweden, Greta Thunberg, has become the leading figure of climate activism over the past two years or so. Speaking at top-level conferences and summits, leading massive protests on a global scale, and outspoken in her criticism of the world leaders for their lack […]
Iceland is the country with the greatest gender equality in the world, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, recently published by the World Economic Forum. The Nordic island nation, with a small population of around 350,000, is now the top ranked country in the index for […]
Norway is the world’s top ranked country in the recently released Human Development Index 2019. Switzerland and Ireland occupy the next two spots while Germany is tied with Hong Kong at fourth. Not surprisingly, developed countries dominate the rankings, with 21 out of the top 30 being European […]
Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is the world’s cheapest city for the year 2019, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. Syria’s capital, Damascus, is the second cheapest, followed by the Central Asian cities of Tashkent and Almaty. Three Indian cities are also among the top ten. The […]
Singapore, Hong Kong, and Paris are the three most expensive cities to visit and live in for the year 2019, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. They are followed by the Swiss cities of Zurich and Geneva, and Japan’s Osaka. New York and Los Angeles are also among […]
Greta Thunberg has become the youngest person ever to be named Time magazine’s Person of the Year since its inception in 1927. Thunberg was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 and has already featured among Time’s 100 most influential people of the year. So who […]
The year 2019 witnessed many weather extremities, such as droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires in various parts of the world. While many of such events routinely occur, there is evidence to suggest that they were more frequent in 2019 than in most of the previous years on record […]
