The world, explained for Ireland.
The World
For low-lying Pacific nations, rising seas and intensifying storms are not future scenarios but present-day threats to land, water, and sovereignty.
By The Daily World · 5 June 2026
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From Sydney to London to Toronto, housing has become unaffordable for a generation, and the forces driving that are structural, not accidental.
By The Daily World · 22 May 2026
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The World Bank lends billions of dollars a year to developing countries, but its role is more complicated and more contested than its name suggests.
By The Daily World · 20 May 2026
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Africa is on course to be home to more than a quarter of the world's population by mid-century, a shift that will reshape global economics, politics, and migration.
By The Daily World · 19 May 2026
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Mental health conditions affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, yet the resources devoted to treating them remain dramatically insufficient in most countries.
By The Daily World · 16 May 2026
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Solar and wind power are now the cheapest sources of new electricity on earth, but the grid they plug into was built for a different era.
By The Daily World · 10 May 2026
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Five countries share spy secrets more freely than any other group on earth, and Australia is one of them.
By The Daily World · 8 May 2026
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Hydrogen is the universe's most abundant element and could be a zero-carbon fuel, but closing the gap between that promise and commercial reality has proved far harder than expected.
By The Daily World · 4 May 2026
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No single country makes a chip from scratch, and the decades-long process of specialisation that created that interdependence is now a source of strategic anxiety.
By The Daily World · 2 May 2026
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Behind every home insurance premium is a global system of risk transfer that is under growing strain as natural disasters become more frequent and severe.
By The Daily World · 30 April 2026
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When a country runs out of foreign currency and cannot pay its debts, the IMF is usually the lender of last resort, and its conditions shape the lives of millions.
By The Daily World · 29 April 2026
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Bacteria are evolving faster than the pipeline of new drugs can keep pace, and the consequences for routine surgery and infection treatment are already visible.
By The Daily World · 24 April 2026
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Forests absorb carbon, regulate rainfall, and sustain biodiversity, but they sit on land that economies have always wanted for something else.
By The Daily World · 22 April 2026
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Decades of predictions about the end of the oil age have not arrived, and understanding why reveals the true scale of the energy transition ahead.
By The Daily World · 16 April 2026
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The global convention of pricing oil in US dollars has shaped geopolitics, exchange rates, and the power of the American economy for more than half a century.
By The Daily World · 12 April 2026
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Australia is one of the world's leading beef exporters, and the complex web of trade rules, biosecurity regimes, and competing suppliers that governs the global meat trade has direct consequences for Australian farmers.
By The Daily World · 10 April 2026
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The ten-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the economic and diplomatic architecture underpinning Australia's most important regional neighbourhood.
By The Daily World · 7 April 2026
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Gradual ocean rise is not a future threat for some communities; it is already reshaping coastlines, flooding homes, and forcing governments to consider relocating entire populations.
By The Daily World · 2 April 2026
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Thousands of small satellites now circle the Earth in low orbit, transforming both how militaries see the battlefield and how forecasters predict your weekend weather.
By The Daily World · 31 March 2026
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A single vote from one of five countries can block any United Nations Security Council resolution, making the veto one of the most powerful and contested tools in global diplomacy.
By The Daily World · 30 March 2026
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Nuclear energy generates a significant share of the world's electricity with almost no direct carbon emissions, yet it remains one of the most contested power sources on the planet.
By The Daily World · 27 March 2026
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Inflation is one of the most reported numbers in economic news and one of the least understood, measuring something more specific than 'things cost more'.
By The Daily World · 21 March 2026
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A stock market index appears daily in the news as a number going up or down, but what it measures, and what it misses, is less well understood.
By The Daily World · 17 March 2026
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The G20 is not a world government, but it is the closest thing the world has to a room where the biggest economic decisions get pre-negotiated.
By The Daily World · 15 March 2026