The World Happiness Report 2024 gave Finland, home to 5.5million people, the top spot for the seventh year running, with a score of 7.74 out of 10 whilst Afghanistan was unhappiest nation at 1.72.
The Open Championship, often referred to as the British Open, is the oldest golf tournament in the world. Since its first edition in 1860 there has been an explosion in the sport and tournaments ar
SLB, the biggest oilfield services firm in the world, is not planning to abandon its business in Russia, chief executive Olivier Le Peuch told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday. Pressure has mounted on companies, especially in the oil and gas industry, to withdraw from Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Many energy majors and oilfield services companies – including Exxon, Shell, BP, Baker Hughes, and Halliburton – have either announced plans to quit...
The World's Top 50 Largest Banks By Consolidated Assets Banks are often among the biggest companies in the world. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu lists the top 50 banks in the world by consolidated assets, based on a 2023 report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The data represents each bank’s total assets for the most recent period available. Chinese Banks Keep on Growing According to S&P, the four largest Chinese banks grew their assets by 4.1% in 2022,...
Under the Biden administration's watch, oil and gas production has grown dramatically, in part because the U.S. has encouraged it.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new rules aimed at cutting carbon emissions while also boosting electric vehicles and hybrids.
It might not be summer just yet but the weather is amazing. It’s sunny, there’s a light cool breeze, it’s not too hot or humid – it’s beach weather! Beach Atlas compiled a list of the 100 best beaches in the world and ranked them in order for the Golden Beach Award 2024. Guess which …
A state agency directing Hawaii energy policy in areas including security, resiliency and environmental health is at risk of losing its independence.
Nordic countries again ranked at the top of the World Happiness Report.
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It’s no surprise that people whose life work is to enforce the principles of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) would have only a glancing acquaintance with the truth. And so it has now come to pass in our green and pleasant land that DEI officials are warning the “intelligence community” that it must not speak accurately about the jihad threat, or even refer to “jihadists” at all. To do so would — you guessed it! — offend Muslims, and with Muslims in the U.S. already enraged at the Biden...
Given the disappearance, decades ago, of its fishing and mining, Buckhaven is perhaps not somewhere you would expect to find a sparkling and innovative vision of the future.