Wildfires have killed at least 14 people across Europe in 2026 as record heat dries out the Mediterranean. We map the major fires, the worst-hit countries, and how 2026 compares to 2025’s record season.

H5N1 bird flu has reached every continent. We map the 2025-26 outbreak by country: poultry losses, the spread to cattle, and 993 human cases since 2003.

1 GB of mobile data costs $0.02 in Israel and $43.75 in Zimbabwe. The US, Canada and Switzerland pay more than 90% of countries. Full map + rankings across 237 countries.

Eurostat granted 80,424 first residence permits to U.S. citizens in 2024. Spain overtook France as #1, Germany slid to third, and the post-2024-election surge is only just starting to show. Full map + top-15 ranking.

The European Court of Justice killed the EU’s last golden passport in April 2025. Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK have closed their golden visas since 2022. Here is where residency and citizenship by investment still exist in 2026 – and how much each programme costs.

In 2024 migrant workers sent home a record $857 billion. India alone received $137bn. But by share of GDP the story flips: Tajikistan runs on remittances at 47%, Tonga at 39%. Two maps of the same money.

Revolut runs personal accounts in the UK, all 30 EEA countries, Switzerland, and 15+ other markets in 2026, but ‘available’ means very different things in Tokyo, Toronto, Bangalore and Boston. Mapped, with the country-by-country fine print.

The EU Inc 28th Regime proposal promises one online incorporation, under €100, valid across all 27 Member States. Meanwhile, incorporation costs run from €50 in Ireland to €3,000 in Italy, and corporate tax rates from 9% in Hungary to 35% in Malta. Full comparison, plus the residency triangle that decides where profits actually get taxed.

Apple runs 537 company-owned retail stores across 27 countries. Half sit in the United States; China’s 50 come next. We mapped every one, ranked every country and profiled the flagships. Saudi Arabia joins the club in 2026.

Australia went first in late 2025. By July 2026 five countries are enforcing nationwide social media bans on under-16s, three more have laws taking effect in 2027, and at least five others are drafting their own. Mapped, with what each law actually says.

Gold topped the US export table for three straight months in early 2026, with a record $17.88 billion leaving in February alone. The reason is a tariff that never happened: it pulled $135 billion of bullion into New York, broke the Fed’s GDP model, and then sent it all flowing back out. Mapped, charted and explained.

Where does patriarchy still dominate? We mapped the Women, Peace and Security Index 2025/26 across 181 countries and lined it up with the UNDP, OECD and WEF’s latest studies. Afghanistan ranks last, Denmark first, and the gap between them is widening.

Nearly every rich country funds healthcare through one of two models born in 1883 Berlin or 1942 London: Bismarck social insurance or Beveridge taxation. A new IPPR analysis of 22 OECD systems finds neither consistently beats the other. We mapped the split and the numbers that matter.

Tokyo tops Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey 2026, with Copenhagen and Lisbon behind and 13 European cities in the top 20. See every city mapped, with photos.

694 cable systems and 1,893 landing stations carry 99% of intercontinental data. See who hosts them, who owns them, and why the Red Sea is the internet’s most dangerous chokepoint.

The U.S. now restricts visas by nationality on three levels in 2026: a full entry ban on 19 countries, a partial ban on 20 more, and a separate immigrant-visa freeze on 75. Mapped and explained, including the June 5 court ruling.

Mapping the UNODC World Drug Report 2026: where cannabis use is highest, the record cocaine boom, and how the world’s opium production shifted from Afghanistan to Myanmar.

The world’s rich have never been so willing to pack up and leave. According to the Henley & Partners Private Wealth Migration Report 2026, released in June, a record 165,000

There is no single American minimum wage. The federal floor has been frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009, so for most workers the real number depends entirely on which

Where are the world’s digital nomads actually based right now? Nomads.com (the community formerly known as Nomad List) estimates how many remote workers are living in each city, which makes