Asia India Workers and homemakers, with robot-hands and head-mounted cameras record first-person "egocentric data" of manual tasks, precious for tech companies to train physical AI and humanoids, building for free knowledge that will eventually take up their jobs
Africa Malawi Addressing delegates at the Malawi Landscape Restoration Forum in Lilongwe, World Bank Country Manager for Malawi, Hugh Riddell, said land degradation is fuelled by people cutting down trees to make a living
Asia Mongolia Mongolian students will be able to study at universities in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China, from 31 December 2024, by agreement for 200 places for Bachelor's degrees, 40 places for Master's degrees and 20 places for PhD degrees
Europe Monaco Prince Albert II in person welcomed a hundred cyclists who set off from London on September 19 to cover 1100 kilometres and reach Monaco on September 26 to raise awareness on oceans’ protection
Africa Mauritius The Supreme Court of Mauritius has overturned a law that criminalised same-sex relationships
Europe Serbia On 1 October, changes to the Serbian excise law came into force, increasing excise duties on fuel, cigarettes, alcohol and coffee by 8%
Africa Somalia More and more women engineers are heading construction sites and projects in the country, defying still-present prejudices and discrepancies, such as getting lower pay than their male colleagues
Africa Namibia Regulatory authority has awarded three 4G/5G licences to Loc8 Mobile, Telecom Namibia and Mobile Telecommunications
Oceania Marshall Islands Dr Irene Taafaki, a woman who had a huge impact on education in the Marshall Islands, died unexpectedly in Majuro last week
America Trinidad and Tobago The Tobago Carnival - scheduled for the weekend of 27-29 October - has been allocated a budget of $12.590.660
Africa Guinea Logging activities have resumed across the country, authorized nationwide from October 6, 2023 to June 30, 2024, exclusively for local consumption
Europe Italy Salvini, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, posted a video of magistrate Apostolico demonstrating as private citizen in 2018 to discredit a recent sentence of hers, raising further debate on the autonomy of the three powers
America Canada In a vision to become the 1st First Nation (indigenous people neither Inuit nor Métis) north of 60° without a housing crisis, Liard First Nation is building timber homes using frame parts cut on-site at a brand new production plant
Europe Moldova Over 400 teachers and school leaders from all over the country will attend the National Teachers' Forum in Chisinau today