andomly select 60 citizens from all four corners of Belgium. Give them an exciting topic to explore. Add a few local players. Season with participation experts. Bake for three weekends at the Egmont Palace conference centre. And you'll end up with the rich and ambitious views of citizens on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in the European Union.

Dr Luisa Cortesi has won a prestigious Veni grant to study how people in Europe experiencing first-time disruptive flooding deal with their new circumstances.

Economic performance in Asia and the Pacific has proved to be quite resilient to the shocks of the past few years – the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and the cost-of-living crisis. In 2023, the region’s economy drove over 60 per cent of the global economic growth.

New York - The latest UN Global Progress Report on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions – was launched today, and reveals concerning data that threatens to undermine future progress on all SDGs.