Asia Bahrain 394.000 visitors have been registered in state-run heritage sites in January-August 2026, with the Bahrain Fort accounting for 246.409, nearly two thirds of the total, and foreign visitors prevailed with the presence of 187.567 people
Europe Poland Women's rights activists used red paint to protest against a government plan to register every pregnancy in a national database while parliament debates a new proposal to further restrict abortion
Europe Czech Republic Despite the pandemic, living standards were close to the EU average last year; the country also maintained the lowest unemployment rate in the EU, according to data published by the Czech Statistical Office in the Statistical Yearbook 2021
Europe Vatican City Pope Francis highlighted World AIDS Day yesterday as “an important occasion to remember the many people affected by this virus, for many of whom in some parts of the world, access to essential treatment is unavailable."
Europe Hungary Flats in Budapest are the cheapest of the Visegrád capitals - of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic; to buy a 50-square-meter flat, you need the average salary for eight and a half years, the lowest amount of the four cities
Africa Somalia "Escape from Mogadishu", a film about the escape of South Korean and North Korean diplomats during the Somali civil war in the 1990s, won the best film award at the 42nd annual Blue Dragon Film Awards, one of Korea's top film honours
America Trinidad and Tobago The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange Ltd (TTSE) has announced an upgrade to its Avvento trading and surveillance platform for brokers
Oceania Fiji Fiji Airways operated the first commercial flight landing in the country after 20 months; the 193 passengers from Sydney are the first of nearly 1000 tourists reaching the country in the next couple of days from Australia and the USA
Africa Mali Several political formations came together in a leaders' meeting in Bamako and announced their merger to try to save the country from the serious situation it is in
Asia Azerbaijan Azersu OJSC has provided water supply to military and civilian facilities in Lachin district, officially territory of the country after the Second Karabakh War in 2020
Asia India Alpine skier Arif Khan is the first, and so far only, Indian athlete to qualify for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics; he said he was proud of the big boost that can come for winter sports for the youth of his region, Kashmir
Europe Italy Swimming champion Federica Pellegrini, worldwide known as 'the Divine', bid farewell to competition in tears with her last victory in the 200 freestyle at the Italian short-tub championships
Asia United Arab Emirates Today start the three days of celebration of the 50th National Day, with fireworks every night at 9pm as most spectacular attraction among a variety of events in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Asia Philippines 3000 km of road connecting farmlands to markets have been built since 2016 by the Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering of the Department of Agriculture; roads are crucial to improve and support both sectors