“2024 is marked by decisive elections in over 40 countries, representing more than 50% of the world’s GDP.

Source: https://investmacro.com/2023/12/top-4-global-market-risks-for-2024/

Aberg is the world’s most talked-about young golfer and is about to play in his first Ryder Cup less than four months after the 23-year-old Swede turned pro.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/national/story/2023-09-23/ludvig-aberg-dealing-with-lofty-expectations-as-europes-widely-admired-ryder-cup-rookie

A bigger tax database requires less money per person than a smaller one, and America has the world’s greatest supply of computer scientists.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/faroe-islands-denmark-tax-system-america/672401/?utm_source=feed

About 99 percent of the world’s salmon farming takes place in open net-pens, which allow water to flow between farms and the marine environment.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/dining/farm-raised-salmon-sustainability.html

According to its most recent newsletter, Newmont GoldCorp is the world’s leading gold mining company based on number of mining site properties and gold production.

Source: https://gazette.com/pikespeakcourier/newmont-mining-corp-discusses-community-investment-reclamation-efforts-in-cripple-creek-victor/article_de3ca8d8-b537-11ed-8c61-4f6be2654b48.html

According to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the world’s average temperature last month may have broken the previous record for June.

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/europe-experiences-record-heat-wave/

A celebrity penguin from the Cotswolds has been crowned the world’s most popular flightless bird after winning a global competition.

Source: https://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/23471644.spike-cotswold-penguin-crowned-worlds-favourite/?ref=rss

A Chorley-based engineering consultancy has launched its first Level 4 apprenticeship qualification in software testing as it looks to continue to provide high-quality technical solutions to some of the world’s largest organisations.

Source: https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23269569.chorley-engineering-company-launches-software-testing-apprenticeship/?ref=rss

A city of 7.4 million people with a that places it among the wealthiest nations, Hong Kong is currently recording the world’s highest rate of covid deaths per million people.

Source: https://qz.com/hong-kong-has-the-world-s-highest-covid-death-rate-agai-1849947517

A collaborative investigation alleged that Verra, the world’s largest issuer of voluntary carbon credits, had sold credits for forests that were not at risk of destruction, essentially wiping out the value of the credits.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/13/treefera-2m-pre-seed-round-carbon-credits/

Across all three countries and four ideological groupings, young Europeans are steadfast in the opinion that the U.S. acts as the world’s policeman to the detriment of the world community.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/03/22/young-adults-in-europe-are-critical-of-the-u-s-and-china-but-for-different-reasons/

Across the Atlantic, in Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, which cultivate ninety-nine per cent of the world’s coca plants, farming techniques are improving.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/crooks-mistaken-bet-on-encrypted-phones

Adani, 60, has since slid on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index from being the world’s third richest person to the 11th, as his net worth shrank more than $30 billion to an estimated $84 billion.

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/business-news/2023/01/adani-2-5b-share-sale-pushes-through-amid-fraud-claims/

A decade or so ago, many still thought it the best hope for decarbonizing the world’s power systems.

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-carbon-capture-and-storage-is-getting-a-second-look/

A former rugby league forward for South Sydney, Eastern Suburbs and North Sydney, Cross revolutionised keyhole surgery and arthroscopic ACL reconstruction for some of the world’s greatest athletes.

Source: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/it-was-a-beautiful-death-legendary-knee-surgeon-merv-cross-passes-away-20230826-p5dzmk.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_sport

A former Stirling doctor who helped invent the world’s first insulin pen for people with diabetes has been awarded a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list.

Source: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/stirling-doctor-insulin-pen-pioneer-30281567

After all, it should be remembered that we are in ‘Asia’s century’ and this is a region where McKinsey estimate 60% of the world’s middle class will reside by 2030.

Source: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2023/12/27/a-year-of-political-drama-lies-ahead/

After all, this was Microsoft’s chance to make a big splash, to show how genAI could improve the world’s most popular desktop and laptop operating system, installed on an estimated 1.4 billion PCs.

Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3709250/microsoft-invested-13b-in-generative-ai-does-copilot-for-windows-show-it-s-a-bad-bet.html

After almost 20 years of negotiations, members of the United Nations agreed to protect marine life in international waters—the two-thirds of the world’s oceans that lie outside of national boundaries.

Source: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/2023-positive-news

After becoming the world’s richest person in 2021, the Tesla and SpaceX boss saw over half of his net worth evaporate this year, boosting France’s luxury goods mogul Bernard Arnault into the top spot.

Source: https://business.inquirer.net/380759/tech-billionaires-see-wealth-shrink-amid-2022-stock-crunch