In today’s digital and advanced era, many factors contribute to the concept of a “best country”. Factors such as high living standards, economic prosperity, effective governance, social progress, ...

Rights Lab Associate Director and Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham Jean Allain has previously received funding from The Leverhulme Foundation. Andrea Nicholson and Katarina Schwarz do not ...

Searching for the safest countries and the safest cities to visit? An annual report ranks the safest places in the world—with Iceland coming out on top. ByLaura Begley Bloom, Senior Contributor.

The 2026 Beijing New Year Countdown celebration at the Juyongguan Great Wall, January 1, 2026 in Beijing, China. At 11 a.m. ET, revelers counted down to the new year in Hong Kong. Revellers celebrate ...

A new poll from YouGov asked respondents from a group of 19 countries across the world whether they believe they live "in the best country in the world" as part of the polling company's international ...

There’s no denying that Finland is a happy place. For the sixth year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world in the annual World Happiness Report, which ranks global ...

You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference. It refers to the costs, both economic and physical, ...

The world's 'better' countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's 'worse off' countries, according to new research. The world's ...

Expat website Movehub recently ranked the most — and least — socially liberal countries around the world. In order to come up with their ranking, they compared three different studies from 2016 — the ...

Oil is a natural resource formed by the decay of organic matter over millions of years. And like many other natural resources, oil cannot be produced, only extracted where it already exists. Unlike ...