Even with travel restrictions, curfews and closures of tourist attractions all over the world due to coronavirus pandemic, the Museé de Louvre still saw 2.7 million people visiting its exhibitions in 2020. As our chart shows, the runner-ups for the tit…
According to official data by Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Búsqueda overseen by the Interior Ministry, the number of currently disappeared people in the country surpassed 100,000 in the latest update. Combined with figures from a report by the Jesuits…
In the upcoming midterms, two topics are vying for the attention of U.S. voters: the all-powerful state of the economy and the likely loss of national abortion protections.American voters have habitually named the economy as their biggest concern ahead…
Global defense spending surpassed the two trillion U.S. dollar mark for the first time in 2021, hitting $2,113 billion, according to the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The figure marks a 0.7 percent incre…
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2021 Internet Crime Report which found that 2021 was another record year for both victims of internet crime and dollar losses in the United States. 847,376 complaints were logged by IC3 i…
Hospital waiting times reached a new record high in March, according to data released by the UK’s National Health Service. A total of 6.4 million people were in line for routine NHS treatment that month, which is the equivalent to around one in nine of…
Following prolonged coronavirus lockdowns in major cities like Shanghai, Chinese businesses are feeling the crunch of the restrictions. Both retail sales and industrial production exhibited negative growth in April, the National Bureau of Statistics Ch…
Thanks largely to Sevilla’s six wins since their maiden victory in the 2005/06 tournament, Spain is quite comfortably the most successful country in the Europa League – or the UEFA Cup as it was called from 1971/72 to 2008/09. The trophy has been broug…
More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States has hit another grim milestone. 805 days after the CDC recorded the first official Covid-19 death in the U.S. on February 27, 2020, President Biden mourned the death of one million Ameri…
Strong economic recovery following the end of the lockdown era of the coronavirus pandemic caused the price of goods and services to rise in 2021 in many developed nations, according to the OECD. Previously, inflation had risen much more slowly and eve…