For years, Iceland, Switzerland, and Norway have ranked near the top of the United Nations' annual index of countries based on indicators of well-being and quality of life. Countries with more poverty ...

Experts predict the S&P 500 will continue to grow in 2026. But after three years of robust gains, diversification is crucial. Investors should balance core U.S. holdings with international equities, ...

The organization’s ‘Iceberg Index’ is designed to track the different types of AI agents now doing work once conducted by people. MIT has started taking a count of AI agents around the world to get a ...

As we age, the human brain rewires itself. The process happens in distinct phases, or “epochs,” according to new research, as the structure of our neural networks changes and our brains reconfigure ...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is entering a period of profound transformation, driven by three powerful megatrends: demographic, climate, and technological change. In MENA, their ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Somalia ranks among ...

THIMPHU – Bhutan achieved a significant milestone in 2023 by climbing to the 125th position out of 193 countries in the Global Human Development Index (HDI), according to the United Nations ...

Bangladesh has moved up a notch to rank 130th among 193 countries in the 2023 Human Development Index (HDI) against the backdrop of an unprecedented global slowdown, according to UNDP's latest Human ...

IN THE THROES of the covid-19 pandemic—when hospitals overflowed, schools and offices shut, and economies seized up—many asked when the world would recover. Five years later, the data show that the ...