United States
Amazon has become the world's fifth largest employer
Bucking 2020's trend of mass redundancies and layoffs, online retailer Amazon has added 427,300 new employees to its company this year, increasing its total workforce to 1.2 million.
Amanda Shendruk is a visual journalist on the Things team. She is an award-winning reporter who explores narrative at the intersections of code, data and design. She has worked at the Guardian (UK), at Maclean's Magazine (Canada) and at the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).
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Cities and Urbanization
Climate change will force millions of us to move, but where will we go?
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China
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China
Which countries have the smartest kids?
The OECD’s latest global test of 15-year-olds in math, science, and reading revealed that Asian countries excel in education, with China and Singapore ranked first and second, respectively.
Education and Skills
The best books for summer 2019, according to data
67 book lists have been mined to compile the ultimate summer reading list.
France
These are some of the treasures thought to be inside Notre Dame
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Environment and Natural Resource Security
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