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Global spending on nuclear weapons increased by 11 percent in 2024 compared to the year before, surpassing $100 billion,...
08/07/2025

Global spending on nuclear weapons increased by 11 percent in 2024 compared to the year before, surpassing $100 billion, or $190,151 every minute. This is according to the latest report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). More than half of this was by the United States, which spent $56.8 billion. China was the second biggest spender, accounting for $12.5 billion, followed by the United Kingdom with $10.4 billion. As the following chart shows, the countries to have seen the biggest relative increases were the United Kingdom at 26 percent, Pakistan at 18 percent and France at 13 percent.

According to ICAN, a cumulative $415.9 billion was spent by the nine countries that have developed nuclear weapons on their arsenals over the five years between 2020 and 2024. Spending has been increasing over the years, having already risen 34 percent between 2019 and 2023.

08/07/2025

Too many tourists and not enough space. Spain’s travel boom is raising tough questions about housing, costs and quality of life.

The United Nations has initiated several treaties in order to ban or restrict the use of nuclear weapons around the worl...
08/06/2025

The United Nations has initiated several treaties in order to ban or restrict the use of nuclear weapons around the world. The following infographic illustrates some of the differences between two of these: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

The NPT (opened for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970) focuses on limiting nuclear weapon stockpiles. It has been ratified by 191 states, including five of the nine nuclear-weapon states: the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, France and China. Under the treaty, the non-nuclear-weapon states agree that they will not build or own nuclear weapons, while the nuclear powers agree to pursue global disarmament. At the same time, state parties are allowed to cooperate on peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

Several countries remain outside of the NPT, including South Sudan, India, Israel and Pakistan. The latter three are all nuclear powers and in order to be able to join the treaty would need to dismantle their nuclear weapons and place the materials under international safeguards. Although North Korea is included in the 191 ratified states, having joined in 1985, it is no longer a part of the agreement, having announced its withdrawal in 2003.

The TPNW (adopted in 2017), however, asks all member states to pledge to not “develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices” - i.e. to stop the possession and use of nuclear weapons altogether. It has 93 signatories, 73 of whom have either ratified it or acceded to it. Importantly, this treaty has not been signed by any of the nine states that have nuclear weapons.

The three distinctions highlighted on the map are between the states that have signed the treaty, ratified the treaty or acceded the treaty. Where the initial signature indicates a state’s intention to become a party to the agreement, ratification formalises the decision and is legally binding. Accession allows a state to join a treaty at a later date and is equal to being ratified.

Since the advent of online shopping, receiving parcels has become a commonplace experience and frequently also a headach...
08/06/2025

Since the advent of online shopping, receiving parcels has become a commonplace experience and frequently also a headache as packages pile up on doorsteps, in apartment buildings, workplaces and post offices. Statista Consumer Insights asked respondents in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany how the have been receiving their parcels in the past 12 months and found out that being handed a package at the front door is still the most common scenario in these countries.

However, Brits and Germans are also likely to have picked up a parcel at their neighbors if they weren't home on delivery day. Americans on the other hand are more likely to have a mail room in their building where they can pick up parcels. In Germany, redirecting parcels to an automated station is already more common. 33 percent of respondents said they had used this option recently compared to only 11 percent in the United States and 17 percent in the United Kingdom. While China was not included, a 2021 survey showed that even then more than half of respondents in the country had used parcel stations in the past 12 months.

Having a shipment sent to a post office or parcel shop was also a common way to go in all three countries, with between 17 percent and 26 percent of respondents having done this in the past 12 months before the survey.

While Republicans' trust in U.S. institutions has surged recently, that of Democrats has reached a new all-time low. Thi...
08/05/2025

While Republicans' trust in U.S. institutions has surged recently, that of Democrats has reached a new all-time low. This is the result of an ongoing survey by Gallup.

As of June 2025, 37 percent of Republicans trusted the average U.S. institution (out of nine surveyed), while this was only 26 percent for Democrats. A previous low for Democrats in the survey that has been running since 1979 was 30 percent in 2019, the third year of the first Trump administration. Republicans' lowpoint was - also at 26 percent - in 2022 and 2023, the second and third year with President Joe Biden in power.

Out of the continuously surveyed institutions, Republicans saw the biggest gains in trust for the military, closely followed by Congress (from 4 percent to a still-low 19 percent) and organized religion. Even banks and organized labor earned percentage point increases in the double digits concerning trust levels among Republicans in just the past year. Democrats lost the most trust out of institutions included in the survey in the military, followed by newspapers and organized labor. Interestingly, both groups had no or minimal changes in confidence in the Supreme Court, which 48 percent of Republicans and 16 percent of Democrats trusted most recently.

Looking at all institutions surveyed by Gallup, more than 50 percent of Americans trust small business, the military and science. Black Americans exhibited lower levels of trust in U.S. institutions compared to white respondents, according to the release, while both groups were unified by their mistrust in big business and Congress.

08/05/2025

In January 2025, India is the country with the largest population worldwide, with an estimated total population of around 1.46 billion inhabitants. China follows in second place on the list of countries with the largest populations. At the beginning of 2025, an estimated 1.42 billion people lived in the East Asian country. At the beginning of 2023, India replaced China as the world's most populous country. While India's population continues to grow rapidly, China's population is already declining. Some of the most populous countries in the world are also represented in the ranking of the 30 largest countries in the world. Russia, by far the largest country in terms of area, ranks ninth in the list of countries with the most inhabitants worldwide. In 2025, Germany still ranks 19th among the most populous countries.

Tech giants of the GAMAM (formerly GAFAM) order exceeded earnings expectation this past quarter, some by a lot. This is ...
08/04/2025

Tech giants of the GAMAM (formerly GAFAM) order exceeded earnings expectation this past quarter, some by a lot. This is according to financial filings published by the companies in the past two weeks. Apple published its earnings report Thursday and saw the biggest quarterly increase in revenue in more than three years at almost 10 percent. Strong iPhone sales as people are upgrading ahead of feared tariff price increases coincided with the release of new MacBook Air models, while services continued strong growth. Also yesterday was the release of Amazon figures. Revenues of the e-commerce giant grew even more, by over 13 percent. Despite this, cloud business sales staying behind competitors' growth and the company giving a mixed outlook concerning tariffs in the future hurt Amazon's stock upon the announcement.

Alphabet announced revenue growth of almost 14 percent year-over year last week, saying that demand for cloud services was up. The company previously announced it would be partnering with OpenAI. Microsoft also said its good results were due to a strong cloud business as AI progress demands ever-increasing data center capacity. Meta which released its figures together with Mircorsoft on Wednesday is meanwhile continuing its investments in AI and superintelligence as the technology is already improving its core business in ads, the company said.

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08/04/2025

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In theory, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are accessible to anyone with an internet connection and enough dollars to...
08/03/2025

In theory, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are accessible to anyone with an internet connection and enough dollars to spare to buy a fraction of a coin. And yet, like other investments, crypto ownership is far more common among the wealthy.

According to Statista Consumer Insights, roughly one in six U.S. adults owns cryptocurrency, up from just six percent five years ago. As our chart shows, crypto ownership is not distributed equally, though, with respondents from households in the top 10 percent income bracket almost three times as likely to own Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency as respondents from the bottom 50 percent in terms of household income.

The reasons for this are relatively simple: not only do high-income or high-net-worth individuals have more money to invest, but they’re also more risk tolerant, which is an important trait for any investor, but even more so for crypto investors given the volatility of many cryptocurrencies. Instead, smaller investors with limited capital and low risk tolerance may favor more traditional investment instruments over the highly speculative and relatively unproven nature of crypto.

India has surpassed China to become the top supplier of smartphones to the United States, according to data from researc...
08/02/2025

India has surpassed China to become the top supplier of smartphones to the United States, according to data from research firm Canalys. In Q2 2025, 44 percent of smartphone shipments to the U.S. were from India, while 30 percent were from Vietnam and 25 percent from China. This marks a major shift from the same period one year earlier, when China had accounted for the lion’s share at 61 percent, followed by Vietnam at 24 percent and India at just 13 percent. The total volume of smartphones manufactured in India rose by 240 percent in Q2 year-on-year.

This switch is mainly attributed to geopolitical tensions and the uncertainty due to new tariffs introduced by the Trump administration, with companies such as Apple having rushed to reroute supply chains of smartphones destined for the U.S. away from China. Samsung and Motorola have also moved in this direction, although at a slower pace.

At the trade war’s worst point, U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods escalated to as high as 145 percent. These are now down to 30 percent. While this is still higher than tariffs on India and Vietnam, the gap has narrowed considerably. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the U.S. would be imposing a 25 percent tariff on Indian goods as well as an additional “penalty” import tax due to India’s purchasing of Russian oil. Meanwhile, Vietnam now faces 20 percent tariffs, down from the earlier warned 46 percent. The White House announced its new trade policy on August 1, affecting nearly all countries. It will officially start on August 7.

Tsunami warnings have now been lifted across much of the Pacific following a major earthquake, which took place at 11:25...
08/01/2025

Tsunami warnings have now been lifted across much of the Pacific following a major earthquake, which took place at 11:25 am local time on Wednesday, striking off the coast of Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake was one of the top ten most powerful earthquakes recorded since 1900, with a magnitude of 8.8.

More than 1.9 million people in Japan had been ordered to evacuate, while tsunami warnings were issued across the Pacific, including in Russia, Hawaii, Alaska and the west coast of the United States. However, the tsunami damage was less severe than first feared, with waves measuring 5.7 feet (1.7m) in Hawaii’s Kahului in Maui, as California saw highs of 3.6 feet (1.1m) in Crescent City. Residents of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia were told on Wednesday that they could return to their homes after tsunami waves of 4.9 feet (1.5m) hit, which was lower than the earlier forecasts of up to 13 feet (4m).

As the following chart shows, the Pacific is a region particularly vulnerable to this type of natural disaster. This is due to the encircling “Pacific Ring of Fire,” formed by the colliding of different kinds of tectonic plates. At these subduction zones, the dense, oceanic plate is typically forced under the lighter continental plate. According to the British Geological Survey, 80 percent of the world's seismic activity takes place at the Ring of Fire, which can trigger devastating tsunamis.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data shows that of the ten most powerful earthquakes ever recorded, two struck Chile (including the most powerful quake on record, which took place in Valdivia in 1960, with a magnitude of 9.5), while another two hit Alaska (1964 and 1965) and two more in Kamchatka (1952 and 2025).

08/01/2025

Internet usage habits vary significantly across regions. Daily time spent online and on social media reveals global patterns worth examining.

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