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
Asia Turkmenistan The development programme for 2022-2052 sets out a number of goals, including the further active development and strengthening of the sphere of statehood and the promotion of greater public confidence in governmental and social institutions
Asia Bangladesh The country's export earnings in the information technology sector exceeded $1,3 billion; the government's target is to increase the gain to $5 billion by 2025
Europe Spain Since Lake Lindoso was created three decades ago, this winter is the first time the flooded village of Aceredo has been revealed in its entirety; this winter's rainfall in the country is only a third of the average of recent years
Africa Chad At the end of the extraordinary elective general meeting at the Chad Chamber of Commerce (CCIAMA), Moussa Adam Moussa was elected president of the National Council of Chadian Importers, Investors, Industrialists and Exporters (CONITE)
Europe Denmark New data from Danmarks Statistik showed that 12.900 couples divorced in 2021 - an 18% decrease from the previous year and 19% lower than the average of the last ten years; there was also a 3% decrease from 2021 in marriages
Africa Sierra Leone The US AIDS program is helping the country reach the UNAIDS global goal: 95% of people living with HIV to know their status; 95% of those who know their status to be on treatment; 95% of those on treatment to have achieved viral suppression by 2030
Africa Benin Igboho has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Republic of Benin for unlawful detention at the Court of Justice of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) as the cost of general damages for each day he spent in detention
Africa Algeria The president has decided to suspend, until further notice, the application of taxes and duties on food and computer equipment imposed by the 2022 financial law to combat the high cost of living
America Bahamas The EU has named the country on a list of those that have not fully complied with a criterion relating to base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and having to do with a country's minimum reporting standard
Asia Pakistan Archaeologists in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan have unearthed a 2.000-year-old Buddhist temple that promises to be one of the oldest in the country
Africa South Sudan The United Nations warned that the country is facing a major risk of a return to war, with outbreaks of inter-ethnic violence and political strife threatening to undo even the limited progress made in implementing the peace process
Europe Vatican City Pope Francis has passed a motu proprio entitled "Fidem servare" modifying the organizational chart of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by separating the responsibility of the doctrinal and disciplinary sections, each with its own secretary
America Guatemala Flower exports in this period usually increase by 300% due to Valentine’s Day, an extremely positive statistic since the Guatemala floral industry employs around 20.000 people