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- 12Go
A Southeast Asian multi-modal transport booking platform founded in 2012, covering buses, trains and ferries across roughly 50,000 routes in 26 countries, which joined the Bookaway Group in 2021 and partnered with AirAsia in 2024 to add ground-transport booking to its super app.
Organizations · Thailand - 1955 Blackwell, Oklahoma tornado
A violent F5 tornado that struck Blackwell, Oklahoma on the night of May 25, 1955, killing about 20-21 people, injuring roughly 200-280, and destroying about 190 structures, including two of the town's largest factories.
Events & Documents · United States - 2020 Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha election
Harivansh Narayan Singh (JD-U) was re-elected Deputy Chairman of India's Rajya Sabha on 14 September 2020, defeating RJD's Manoj Jha by voice vote in a contest widely read as a Bihar election proxy fight.
Events & Documents · India - 2026 Satya Niketan building collapse
A five-storey building housing a boys' hostel collapsed during unauthorised basement renovation in Satya Niketan, Delhi, in September 2026, killing seven people; the Delhi High Court held that the municipal corporation and Delhi University shared responsibility.
Events & Documents · India - Abdulrahman Al Awar
UAE Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation since 2021 and Acting Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research since 2024, a former oil-and-gas geoscientist and federal HR official who has overseen the country's mandatory private-sector Emiratisation targets.
People · United Arab Emirates - Abhijeet Dipke
An Indian political-communications strategist who founded the satirical "Cockroach Janta Party" in May 2026 after India's Chief Justice referred to unemployed youth as cockroaches, drawing tens of thousands of sign-ups and international press coverage.
People · India - Adam Stafford
A Scottish musician and filmmaker, born in Sunderland and based in Falkirk, who fronted the band Y'all Is Fantasy Island, has released more than a dozen solo albums including a 2020 comeback, and has directed an award-winning music video and the seven-award-winning short film "The Shutdown."
People · United Kingdom - Adikavi Nannaya University
A state university in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India, established in 2006, serving the combined Godavari districts and the affiliating university of Government College, Rajahmundry.
Universities & Colleges · India - Advocate (charity)
A UK barristers' pro bono charity founded in 1996 as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, co-founder of the National Pro Bono Centre in 2010 and rebranded as Advocate in 2018.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Agate (game company)
Indonesia's largest homegrown video game developer, founded in Bandung in 2009 by a group of college friends and grown from a $500 first game into a roughly 200-employee studio behind titles including Valthirian Arc and Code Atma.
Organizations · Indonesia - Alex Breingan
New Zealand television producer facing 33 fraud and forgery charges from the Serious Fraud Office over the collapse of his Stripe Media/Stripe Studios production companies, which owed creditors more than $20 million.
People · New Zealand - All Pueblo Council of Governors
New Mexico-based advocacy body representing 20 Pueblo Nations, leading a 2025-2026 campaign to permanently protect the Greater Chaco region from oil and gas leasing.
Organizations · United States - American Thymele Theatre
A New York nonprofit founded in 1993 to stage free Greek and classical drama, which completed a 14-year project to perform all 18 surviving plays of Euripides and was selected to present at the 2004 Athens Olympics Cultural Olympiad.
Organizations · United States - Ana Luz Porzecanski
Uruguayan-born conservation biologist who directs the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History and co-curated the museum's 2016 exhibition on Cuban biodiversity.
People · United States - Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
An independent secondary school in Singapore, and the first national school authorised to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, tracing its founding to a Methodist mission school opened in 1886.
Schools · Singapore - Ankit Baiyanpuria
An Indian wrestler-turned-fitness-influencer, born Ankit Singh in Haryana, known for desi workout content and the "75 Hard Challenge," who won a national creator honor from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and later faced UFC fighter Arman Tsarukyan in a grappling exhibition.
People · India - Anthropic
American AI safety-focused research and product company founded in January 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei and five other former OpenAI employees, known for its Claude model family and a valuation reported at $965 billion by mid-2026.
Organizations · United States - Anwyl of Parc and Llugwy Hall
A Welsh gentry family, seated at Parc in Llanfrothen and later at Llugwy Hall in Pennal, Merionethshire, documented from the 16th to the early 20th century in two Cadw-listed houses and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
Places · United Kingdom - Ardavan Safaee
President of French film studio and distributor Pathé Films since 2019, who testified to a French National Assembly committee on how the company changed its on-set conduct policies after handling a 2020 misconduct complaint against a director.
People · France - Arief Widhiyasa
Indonesian entrepreneur who co-founded and led the Bandung video game developer Agate as chief executive from 2009 to 2022, then became its Chairman and co-founded the web3 gaming company Mythic Protocol.
People · Indonesia - Arthur Gaeth
An American who led the first Latter-day Saint mission in a Slavic country as a 24-year-old in 1929, then reported live from Nuremberg in 1946 on the execution of convicted Nazi war criminals, a broadcast held by Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
People · United States - Article 25
A UK humanitarian architecture charity that designs schools, hospitals and housing in the Global South, which won a 2024 RIBA International Award for a school in Niger and nearly collapsed in 2015 after a former office manager was convicted of stealing over £260,000 from its accounts.
Organizations · United Kingdom - AS Valentigney
A French amateur football club founded by Peugeot factory workers in 1920 whose run to the 1926 Coupe de France final directly inspired the Peugeot family to found FC Sochaux — now a Ligue 1 club — two years later.
Organizations · France - Asociación Española de Familias de Personas con Sordoceguera (APASCIDE)
A Spanish nonprofit supporting people with deafblindness and their families, recognized as an association of public utility and operating specialized social, educational and residential services.
Organizations · Spain - Avni Zogiani
A Kosovo human rights defender and investigative journalist who has led anti-corruption and organized-crime reporting through the civil society movement Çohu since 2005, and who Front Line Defenders has documented as facing threats over that work.
People · Kosovo - Awareness 360
Bangladeshi-founded global youth volunteer platform, launched in 2014 after a founder's personal loss, now running community-service programs in over 20 countries.
Organizations · Bangladesh - Banned Books Museum
A small non-profit museum in Tallinn, Estonia, opened in December 2020, displaying censored and banned books from around the world and covered by independent press in the UK, continental Europe and India.
Organizations · Estonia - Barrow upon Soar rail crash
A 2008 Leicestershire accident in which a tipper lorry struck and collapsed a footbridge onto the tracks, derailing a passing train; a government investigation blamed driver distraction and a weak Network Rail safety process.
Events & Documents · United Kingdom - BasicNeeds
A UK-founded international mental-health and development NGO, founded in 2000, whose model of combining community mental-health treatment with livelihoods support was documented in a peer-reviewed Nepal case study before it merged into CBM UK in 2017 after a funding shortfall.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Beau Bayh
A seventh-generation Hoosier, Marine Corps veteran and attorney who in 2025 became the fourth generation of his family to seek statewide office, winning the 2026 Democratic nomination for Indiana Secretary of State and now facing Republican Max Engling in the November general election.
People · United States - Bill Doogue
Australian criminal defence lawyer and founding director of Doogue + George, a Melbourne firm, who has represented clients in a number of high-profile Victorian criminal cases.
People · Australia - Bridges Partners LLC
A Delaware-incorporated public-relations and political-consulting firm that U.S. foreign-agent filings connect to an Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs-funded influencer campaign known as Project Esther.
Organizations · United States - Brihaspati Vidyasadan
A private school in Naxal, Kathmandu, named a Full Award recipient in the British Council's 2019–20 International School Award, whose leased campus land is the subject of an unresolved fraud case over a decades-long, below-market lease from a state-linked children's charity.
Schools · Nepal - C-nario
An Israeli digital-signage and video-wall software company founded in 2002, acquired by YCD Multimedia in 2011 in a deal an independent trade columnist noted with skepticism toward the combined company's claimed customer reach.
Organizations · Israel - Cambodian adoption scandal
A 1997-2001 U.S.-Cambodia intercountry adoption fraud scheme run by facilitator Lauryn Galindo and her sister Lynn Devin, involving roughly 800 adoptions and falsified documents, which led to U.S. criminal convictions and a multi-year suspension of Cambodian adoptions.
Events & Documents · Cambodia - Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa
A Chaldean Catholic cathedral in Ankawa, a Christian-majority district of Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, which sheltered and held Mass for thousands of Christians displaced by the Islamic State in 2014 and hosted a 2018 Vatican visit.
Places · Iraq - Celeste Katz
An American political journalist whose two-decade career spans the New York Daily News, Mic, Glamour and Newsweek, and whose 2020 departure from Newsweek amid a wave of editor firings drew independent press scrutiny for its apparent timing.
People · United States - Celestian Tales: Realms Beyond
A 2020 turn-based RPG sequel from Indonesian studios Ekuator Games and Agate, crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2017 and published by Digital Tribe after a nearly three-year delay past its original 2017 target.
Creative Works · Indonesia - Chovqan
A traditional Karabakh horse-riding game resembling polo, inscribed by UNESCO in 2013 on its list of intangible heritage in need of urgent safeguarding due to declining youth interest and a shortage of players and Karabakh horses.
Events & Documents · Azerbaijan - Cipto Adiguno
Indonesian game-industry executive who co-founded Bandung studio Ekuator Games, became a Vice President at its acquirer Agate, chaired the Indonesian Game Association from 2019 to 2024, and co-founded the publishing accelerator Indiesche Partners in 2025.
People · Indonesia - Clyde Metro
A multi-decade, multi-billion-pound mass transit proposal for the Glasgow City Region, launched by Transport Scotland in 2022, that has absorbed the long-stalled Glasgow Airport rail link as one of many components still under study as of September 2026.
Places · United Kingdom - Confiction Labs
Game studio co-founded by Agate chairman Arief Widhiyasa and former Agate marketing chief Igor Tanzil, which raised $6.5 million in 2023 as "Mythic Protocol" before rebranding as Confiction Labs and releasing the co-op shooter "Riftstorm."
Organizations · Singapore - Copernicus Foundation
A Chicago Polish-American cultural nonprofit, founded in 1970 to fund a Copernicus monument, which later acquired the historic Gateway Theatre and became the subject of a 2020 lawsuit against the City of Chicago.
Organizations · United States - Covid Act Now
A U.S. nonprofit that launched a COVID-19 risk-tracking website on 20 March 2020, used by some state and local governments during the pandemic, and formally wound down its data pipeline in 2024–2026.
Organizations · United States - Cross Ratio Entertainment
Singapore independent record label founded in 2015 that became one of the city-state's most successful, signing a global distribution deal with Warner Music Singapore.
Organizations · Singapore - CS Drobeta
A football club founded in 2025 by the municipality of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania, which won its debut county championship and cup double in its first season, competing alongside a similarly named rival club in the same city.
Organizations · Romania - Dang Thanh Tam
Vietnamese industrialist and chairman of Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation, whose company is developing the Trump Organization's licensed golf and residential project in Hung Yen province.
People · Vietnam - Dang Thi Hoang Yen
Vietnamese businesswoman who founded Tan Tao Group, was removed as a National Assembly delegate in 2012 amid disputed circumstances, and later filed billion-dollar international arbitration claims against Vietnam.
People · Vietnam - Daniel Susott
American physician and self-described "hanai" (adopted) brother of Lauryn Galindo whose 2010 and 2019 transfers of a Kauai apartment to her were both voided by federal courts as fraudulent, and who surrendered his California medical license in 2013 amid regulatory allegations.
People · United States - DATAllegro
A data warehouse appliance maker based in Aliso Viejo, California, whose large-scale, commodity-hardware technology was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 to strengthen SQL Server's enterprise business intelligence capabilities for the very-large-database market.
Organizations · United States - Dee Jay Mailer
Healthcare and global-health executive who left her role as COO of The Global Fund to become CEO of Kamehameha Schools in 2004, chosen from 200 applicants.
People · United States - Diaconovici-Tietz National College
A bilingual Romanian-German secondary school in Reșița, Romania, founded in 1877, nicknamed "Bastilia" for its fortress-like building and known as the birthplace-era school of mathematician Ciprian Foiaș, a Norbert Wiener Prize winner.
Schools · Romania - Donna Steichen
An American Catholic author from St. Cloud, Minnesota, whose 1991 book "Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism" became an unexpected bestseller for a first-time author and drew both praise and sharp criticism within the Catholic Church.
People · United States - Édouard Balladur
Prime Minister of France from 1993 to 1995 under Socialist President François Mitterrand, who privatized major state companies, later stood trial in the "Karachi affair" arms-kickback case, and died on 31 August 2026 at age 97.
People · France - Ekuator Games
Bandung-based Indonesian video game studio behind the crowdfunded RPG series "Celestian Tales," acquired by fellow Bandung developer Agate in January 2019 for about Rp5 billion.
Organizations · Indonesia - Elaine Tierney
An American lightweight rower who won a silver medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships and a bronze in 2023, in the women's coxless pair with partner Solveig Imsdahl, following a five-year rowing career at Temple University.
People · United States - Elinor Tatum
Publisher and editor-in-chief of the New York Amsterdam News since 1997, the first Black woman named Editor & Publisher magazine's Publisher of the Year in its 140-year history.
People · United States - Elon Musk
South African-born entrepreneur, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, left its board in 2018, and sued the company and Sam Altman in 2024 in a case a jury dismissed in May 2026.
People · United States - Eron
Brazilian footballer, full name Eronildo dos Santos Rocha, who won the 2023 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D top-scorer title with Caxias before transferring to Vegalta Sendai in Japan's J2 League.
People · Brazil - Evans Chan
Hong Kong-born, New York-based independent filmmaker known for hybrid documentary-fiction films on Hong Kong's handover, the Chinese diaspora, and postcolonial history, screened at Berlin, Rotterdam and London.
People · United States - Fawn Johnson
A Washington, D.C.-based journalist and policy analyst whose documented work covers Congress, public policy and education reporting, including an Education Writers Association national award.
People · United States - Ficus palmeri (rock fig)
A strangler fig native to the Baja California peninsula, Mexico, known as the rock fig or tescalama, which can spend its entire life dwarfed on a bare rock face or grow into a large tree if its roots reach soil or water.
Species · Mexico - First Hawaiian, Inc.
Hawaii's oldest bank holding company, tracing to an 1858 Honolulu savings bank, which spent 15 years as a wholly owned BNP Paribas subsidiary before a 2016 IPO returned it to public markets.
Organizations · United States - Frederic René Coudert
American lawyer at Coudert Brothers who served as a special assistant U.S. Attorney General and legal adviser to the British Embassy during World War I, and was a Columbia University trustee for over four decades.
People · United States - Free Representation Unit
A UK charity founded in 1972 by law students that provides free legal representation in employment, social security and criminal injuries compensation tribunals to people who cannot afford lawyers, training volunteer law students under qualified supervision in the process.
Organizations · United Kingdom - G Line (RTD)
A Denver-area commuter rail line that opened more than two years late after crossing-gate safety failures, and whose 1990s plan to reach downtown Golden was never built despite decades of local advocacy.
Places · United States - Glasgow Airport Link
A direct rail connection between Glasgow city centre and Glasgow Airport, proposed and then scrapped twice since 2006, most recently reduced by 2026 to an unfunded "exploration" within the wider Clyde Metro mass-transit proposal.
Places · United Kingdom - Golden Matonga
Malawian investigative journalist and Director of Investigations at the Platform for Investigative Journalism-Malawi, an ICIJ member journalist who has contributed to the Pandora Papers and FinCEN Files investigations.
People · Malawi - Golden Peak High School
A private English-medium school in Saraswatinagar, Chabahil, Kathmandu, named a Full Award recipient in the British Council's 2019–20 International School Award programme.
Schools · Nepal - Government College, Rajahmundry
The oldest government college in Andhra Pradesh, India, tracing its origins to an 1853 Zilla Parishad school and now an autonomous institution on the banks of the Godavari river, holding NAAC 'A' accreditation since 2004.
Universities & Colleges · India - Great Public Schools Association of Queensland – Rugby Union
The interschool rugby union competition run among Queensland's "GPS" group of elite private schools, a long-running development pipeline into state and national rugby that competes for players against rugby league's own school pathways.
Organizations · Australia - Greg Brockman
American computer scientist and entrepreneur, co-founder and president of OpenAI, who was previously chief technology officer at Stripe, resigned from OpenAI's board in November 2023 during Sam Altman's brief ouster, and took a sabbatical from August to November 2024.
People · United States - Hale America National Open Golf Tournament
A wartime substitute for the 1942 U.S. Open, held after the USGA suspended its national championships following Pearl Harbor. Ben Hogan won by three strokes at a record score, fueling a decades-long dispute over whether it should count as his fifth U.S. Open title.
Events & Documents · United States - Harford County Public Library
A Maryland county library system tracing to an 1885 Bel Air reading room, now operating 11 branches with more than 187,000 registered borrowers, independently covered by regional and trade press for its pandemic response, digital-literacy programs and longtime CEO Mary Hastler.
Organizations · United States - Helen Toner
Australian-born AI policy researcher and interim executive director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, who as an independent OpenAI board member voted to remove Sam Altman as CEO in November 2023 and later testified as a trial witness in Musk v. OpenAI.
People · United States - Hiroshi Ichikura
A Japanese advertising copywriter and creative director, born in Gunma Prefecture in 1955, who founded his own agency in 1990 after working on Suntory's advertising and was inducted into the Tokyo Copywriters Club Hall of Fame in 2023.
People · Japan - Holland College
The public community college of Prince Edward Island, Canada, established in 1969 and constituted as a body corporate under the provincial Holland College Act, with campuses and specialised centres across the province.
Universities & Colleges · Canada - Holy Face of Lucca
An 8-foot wooden crucifix in Lucca Cathedral, Italy, radiocarbon-dated to the 8th-9th century and credited by medieval legend to Nicodemus, that became one of medieval Europe's most widely invoked relics.
Places · Italy - I'd Like to Think While inside the Body of a Horse
A 1964 gelatin-silver photograph by Japanese Surrealist photographer Kansuke Yamamoto, originally published in the Asahi Shimbun to illustrate a poem of the same title by Hideo Oguma, and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Creative Works · Japan - ICFAI University, Meghalaya
A state private university in Meghalaya, India, established under a 2005 Act of the state legislature, with its headquarters in Tura and a second campus in Shillong.
Universities & Colleges · India - Ignacio Dülger
A Chilean lawyer and Republican Party (Partido Republicano) politician, a regional councilor (CORE) for the Santiago Metropolitan Region and, as of 2026, the party's mayoral candidate for Peñalolén, with a political career built through José Antonio Kast's campaigns.
People · Chile - Ignatius Press
American Catholic publishing house founded in San Francisco in 1978 by Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J., known as the primary English-language publisher of Pope Benedict XVI's works and, in 2014, at the center of a dispute over a book mailed to Synod on the Family participants.
Organizations · United States - Igor Tanzil
Indonesian creative executive and former advertising copywriter who served as Agate's chief marketing and chief creative officer before co-founding Mythic Protocol, later rebranded Confiction Labs, where he is Chief Creative Officer.
People · Indonesia - Ilya Sutskever
Computer scientist who co-created AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI and served as its chief scientist, played a central and later-regretted role in the November 2023 board vote to remove Sam Altman, and in 2024 left to found the AI-safety company Safe Superintelligence Inc.
People · United States - Imaginando
Braga, Portugal music-software studio founded in 2014 by a solo developer that grew into a maker of synthesizers and production tools, culminating in its 2023 flagship release, BAM.
Organizations · Portugal - International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes on board Ships
A mandatory International Maritime Organization instrument, adopted in 1993 and made compulsory under SOLAS in 2001, setting design and operational safety requirements for ships carrying irradiated nuclear fuel, plutonium and high-level radioactive waste.
Events & Documents · International - InvGate
Buenos Aires-founded IT service and asset management software company that bootstrapped for 14 years before raising a $35 million growth round in 2023.
Organizations · Argentina - Ioannis Vardoulakis
Greek civil engineer and geomechanicist (1949–2009), Professor of Mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens, known for work on shear-band formation and bifurcation theory in granular materials.
People · Greece - J. Michael Shepherd
An American banking lawyer and executive who led Bank of the West as President and CEO from 2008 to 2016, chaired BNP Paribas USA through 2023, and later joined the boards of CoreLogic and Discover Financial Services.
People · United States - Jack Altman
American technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded and led the HR software company Lattice, later founded the venture firm Alt Capital, and became a general partner at Benchmark in 2026.
People · United States - Jackie Northam
Longtime NPR international correspondent who covered the Gulf War, the Rwandan genocide, and conflicts across the Middle East and South Asia over a four-decade career, retiring in 2026.
People · United States - James Cuff
High-performance-computing research technologist who built Harvard's research-computing organization and its North East Storage Exchange before moving on to lead scientific-computing strategy at composable-computing startup GigaIO.
People · United States - James Marsh (artist)
British illustrator and painter best known for designing Talk Talk's album covers from 1982 onward, including "Spirit of Eden," whose 2012 retrospective book was reviewed by Record Collector magazine.
People · United Kingdom - Janakpur Bolts
Nepal Premier League cricket franchise, owned by Dream Sports, that won the tournament's inaugural title in December 2024 in its first season.
Organizations · Nepal - Jen Guyton
American-German conservation ecologist and wildlife photographer whose doctoral fieldwork in Mozambique and Namibia produced a Nature paper on vegetation patterns, a Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, and a national conservation-science honor.
People · United States - Jeremiaha Maluze
A German footballer from Duisburg who worked through youth academies and semi-professional clubs before a breakout season at fourth-tier Rot-Weiß Erfurt earned him a first-team contract with Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt in 2025, followed by a competitive debut in the 2026 DFB-Pokal.
People · Germany - Jeremy Matlow
Tallahassee city commissioner (Seat 3) known for publicly criticizing the city's response to a corruption scandal and for a still-unresolved 2026 trespassing investigation tied to a tree-removal protest.
People · United States - Jim Baum
American technology executive who led Netezza as president and CEO through its 2010 acquisition by IBM, later ran the warehouse-robotics startup CasePick Systems, and has since served on multiple corporate boards.
People · United States - Jit Saxena
Massachusetts-based technology entrepreneur who founded and led Applix and then co-founded Netezza, taking both companies public, and who has since served on the boards of numerous data and software startups.
People · United States - Johan Raja Lawak
A Malaysian comedian, actor and long-running Hot FM radio presenter, born Mohd Yazid Lim bin Mohamad Aziz, who placed third in the first season of Raja Lawak in 2007 and later pivoted much of his public focus toward entrepreneurship, including a restaurant and a vending-machine business.
People · Malaysia - Joseph Fessio
American Jesuit priest who co-founded Ignatius Press in 1978, became a primary English-language editor of Pope Benedict XVI's works, and was removed from three institutions he helped build amid recurring disputes with administrators.
People · United States - Katas Raj temple complex
A Hindu temple complex around a sacred pond in Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan, managed by the Evacuee Trust Property Board and the subject of Supreme Court proceedings over groundwater extraction.
Places · Pakistan - Katowice-Muchowiec Airfield
A general-aviation aerodrome in central Katowice, Poland, opened in 1926 as one of interwar Poland's most modern airports. A 2006–2007 aeroclub property dispute and a 2023 city agreement shaped its shift toward business use, with a new runway finished in 2026.
Places · Poland - Kilifi County
A coastal county in Kenya formed in 2010 from the merger of Kilifi and Malindi districts, home to the Gedi ruins and named in the New York Times' "52 Places to Go" travel list for 2025.
Places · Kenya - Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation
Vietnamese industrial real estate developer listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, chaired by Dang Thanh Tam, whose subsidiary Hung Yen Hospitality is developing the Trump Organization's licensed golf and residential project in Hung Yen province.
Organizations · Vietnam - Kiran Nazish
Pakistani war correspondent who founded the Coalition For Women In Journalism after a career-related breakdown, building it into a nonprofit that documents violence against women journalists worldwide.
People · Pakistan - Kirsten Hughes
Massachusetts Republican Party chairwoman from 2013 to 2019, elected amid a divided state committee and a Scott Brown-shaped transition, who led the party through two Charlie Baker gubernatorial wins before stepping down.
People · United States - Knut Frängsmyr
A Swedish former Klarna executive appointed CEO of Avanza in 2023 who left the role after roughly one week when the bank withdrew its approval of him following a financial regulator's disclosure about fines tied to renovation work on his home.
People · Sweden - Krish, Trish and Baltiboy
An Indian animated folk-tales anthology from Graphiti Multimedia, running since 2009, whose Season 2 was co-produced with a central government ministry, nominated at Cairo's children's film festival, and was singled out by name by the Prime Minister on national radio.
Creative Works · India - Lauryn Galindo
American adoption facilitator who arranged roughly 700-800 Cambodian adoptions from 1990-2001, including actress Angelina Jolie's adoption of her son Maddox, before pleading guilty in 2004 to visa fraud and money laundering conspiracy.
People · United States - LawWorks
A UK solicitors' pro bono charity founded in 1997, co-founder of the National Pro Bono Centre in 2010, which runs England and Wales's largest network of free legal advice clinics.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
A Philadelphia-based nonprofit focused on genocide prevention, early-warning alerts and human-security advocacy, founded in 2017 as the Iraq Project for Genocide Prevention and later renamed the Lemkin Institute.
Organizations · United States - Lincoln Beach amusement park
A segregation-era beach and amusement park built for Black residents of New Orleans, which hosted Fats Domino and Nat King Cole before closing in 1964 and being added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
Places · United States - Localazy
A Czech software localization company, launched in 2020 by Václav Hodek in Brno, that raised two independently reported funding rounds and expanded into the Polish market in 2024.
Organizations · Czech Republic - Lorenzo Nigro
Italian archaeologist and Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, whose 2022 reinterpretation of a Phoenician structure at Motya, Sicily, as a sacred pool rather than a harbor drew international coverage.
People · Italy - Lynn Devin
American adoption agency operator who ran Seattle International Adoptions with her sister Lauryn Galindo and pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiracy to commit visa fraud and money laundering over Cambodian adoptions.
People · United States - Marsha Miro
Longtime Detroit Free Press art critic who co-founded the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit after a five-year attempt to place a modern-art wing inside the Detroit Institute of Arts fell through.
People · United States - Matiur Rahman Mallik
Bangladeshi student activist (1953–1969) shot dead by police during the January 1969 mass-upsurge movement in Dhaka; the anniversary of his death is observed nationally as Mass Uprising Day, and he received Bangladesh's posthumous Independence Award in 2018.
People · Bangladesh - Michael F. Barry
A longtime Quaker Chemical Corporation executive who served as CEO from 2008 and chairman from 2009, led the 2019 merger that created Quaker Houghton, retired as chairman in 2026, and later joined FMC Corporation's board of directors.
People · United States - Microsoft Corporation
American technology company founded in 1975, whose 2019–2025 investment and cloud partnership with OpenAI made it a central actor in that company's 2023 board crisis and 2024–2026 Musk litigation.
Organizations · United States - Minnie F. Abrams
An American Methodist missionary, evangelist and revivalist in India whose 1906 book on baptism in the Holy Spirit is credited with helping spark the Pentecostal movement in Chile.
People · United States - Mohit Aron
Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who worked on Google's file system, co-founded Nutanix, and founded the data management company Cohesity, where he served as chief executive until 2022.
People · United States - Nabakumar Institution
A school and college in Bakshi Bazar, Old Dhaka, founded in 1916, whose Standard IX student Matiur Rahman Mallik was killed by police during the 1969 mass-upsurge movement — an event the campus now memorializes with a government-funded library and museum.
Schools · Bangladesh - Nandita Bakhshi
An American banking executive who served as CEO of Bank of the West from 2016 to 2023, known for restricting the bank's financing of activities deemed harmful to the environment, and later a board member at BMO, Grameen America, Beyond Meat and Quaker Houghton.
People · United States - National Pro Bono Centre
A UK charity founded in 2010 by three national pro bono bodies to coordinate free legal-help charities from a shared London workspace, and publisher of a case study documenting a Free Representation Unit tribunal case.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Netezza
A Massachusetts-based data warehouse appliance maker, founded in 2000, that helped pioneer the appliance category, competed directly with DATAllegro, and was acquired by IBM in 2010 for $1.7 billion.
Organizations · United States - NLS Legal
A regulated teaching law firm run by Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University, operating since 2006 and now the partner clinic through which the Free Representation Unit extends casework into the English Midlands.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Nottingham Law School
A law school of Nottingham Trent University founded in 1964, which runs the on-campus teaching law firm NLS Legal and, since 2024, hosts the national helpline of the charity Support Through Court.
Universities & Colleges · United Kingdom - Nurunnahar Nimni
Bangladeshi mountaineer and Pubali Bank officer who became the third Bangladeshi woman to summit Mount Everest, 14 years after the previous successful ascent by a Bangladeshi woman.
People · Bangladesh - Oliver Mulherin
Australian software engineer who has worked at the IOTA Foundation, Broadwing, SPARK Neuro, and Meta, and who married OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman in January 2024.
People · Australia - Ömer Özsoy
Turkish-born theologian who became the first Muslim theology professor at a German university in 2006, holding an endowed Koranic-exegesis chair at Goethe University Frankfurt and advocating historical-critical readings of the Koran.
People · Germany - OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research and product company behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit and restructured twice, in 2019 and 2025, with Microsoft as its largest outside investor and Sam Altman as chief executive.
Organizations · United States - OpenAI's 2026 Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize claim
In September 2026, OpenAI said an AI system had proven that the forced Navier–Stokes equations can develop a singularity in finite time, addressing one branch of the Clay Mathematics Institute's Millennium Prize problem and touching off disputes over both credit and independent verification.
Events & Documents · United States - Palasa-Kasibugga
A municipality of twin towns in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India, whose Kasibugga side became the site of a temple stampede that killed nine people in November 2025.
Places · India - Partners Capital
A London-founded outsourced chief investment officer firm managing roughly $50 billion for endowments, foundations, family offices and wealthy individuals, which sold a minority stake to General Atlantic in 2024 to fund a generational transition among its founding partners.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Paul Graham
American computer scientist, essayist and investor who co-founded the web-store company Viaweb (sold to Yahoo in 1998) and, in 2005, co-founded the startup accelerator Y Combinator, which he led as president until 2014.
People · United States - Pennsylvania College of Technology
A Williamsport, Pennsylvania technical college tracing to a 1914 school-district vocational program and becoming a Penn State affiliate in 1989. A 2024 federal apprenticeship grant, attended by two White House officials, and a 2025 state grant document its ongoing workforce-training role.
Universities & Colleges · United States - Periodic Spring
The world's largest known rhythmic spring, in Wyoming's Swift Creek Canyon near Afton, which cycles on and off roughly every 15 minutes through a natural siphon effect rather than geyser activity.
Places · United States - Peter Thiel
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and Palantir Technologies, co-founded the venture firm Founders Fund, was an early Facebook investor, and was named among the private backers whose funding launched OpenAI in December 2015.
People · United States - Phulo Jhano Medical College and Hospital, Dumka
A government medical college and hospital in Dumka, Jharkhand, India, inaugurated in 2019, whose admissions were later suspended by federal regulators over infrastructure and faculty shortfalls before a 100-seat batch was approved in 2021.
Universities & Colleges · India - Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021
An Indian bill that would have raised the minimum marriage age for women from 18 to 21, introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 2021 and left to lapse in 2024 after repeated parliamentary committee extensions.
Events & Documents · India - Promotion Marketing Association
A U.S. marketing trade association founded in 1911, later renamed the Brand Activation Association, that ran the annual REGGIE Awards and was acquired by the Association of National Advertisers in 2014.
Organizations · United States - Pushpindar Singh Chopra
Indian aviation historian and journalist who founded Vayu Aerospace & Defence Review in 1974, authored a multi-volume history of the Indian Air Force, and later founded a magazine on Sikh heritage.
People · India - Quaker Houghton
A Pennsylvania-based specialty chemical maker formed by Quaker Chemical Corporation's 2019 combination with Houghton International, now one of the world's largest suppliers of industrial process fluids to the steel, aluminum, automotive and aerospace industries.
Organizations · United States - Queens High School for the Sciences
A citywide-admissions public high school in Jamaica, Queens, that spent over two decades sharing a college's second floor before an unopposed 2026 city vote gave it its first dedicated building.
Schools · United States - Quinnsworth
Irish supermarket chain founded by Pat Quinn in 1966 that pioneered budget "Yellow Pack" products before being acquired by Tesco in 1997 and rebranded as Tesco Ireland.
Organizations · Ireland - R. H. Richharia
A Cambridge-trained rice geneticist who led India's Central Rice Research Institute, published clonal-propagation research in Nature, and was removed from his post after opposing Green Revolution seed policy in favour of conserving indigenous rice varieties.
People · India - Rabindranath Tagore University, Hojai
A state university in Hojai, Assam, India, established in 2017 by upgrading Hojai College under a dedicated Act of the Assam legislature.
Universities & Colleges · India - Raipur–Dhamtari Branch Line
A 2-foot-6-inch narrow-gauge railway in Chhattisgarh, India, opened in 1900 under the Bengal-Nagpur Railway and closed on 30 April 2017 after 117 years so its Raipur-end stations could make way for an expressway to Swami Vivekanand Airport.
Places · India - Ramchandra Singh Deo
The last ruler of the former princely state of Koriya who became Chhattisgarh's first finance minister when the state was created in 2000, after an earlier career that included working as a photographer for the filmmaker Satyajit Ray.
People · India - Renuka Lake and Temple
A Hindu pilgrimage site in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India, centred on a lake named for the goddess Renuka and a Ramsar-listed wetland since 2005 — this profile covers the physical lake-temple complex and its annual fair, not the goddess as a religious concept.
Places · India - Reuven Yaron
An Israeli legal historian, born in Vienna in 1924, who taught ancient Near Eastern and Roman law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for decades and became dean of its law faculty, publishing widely on Aramaic papyri, biblical law and the Laws of Eshnunna.
People · Israel - Riverview Health Westfield Hospital
Indiana community hospital that opened in 2018 and, by 2025, was expanding again to keep pace with Westfield's status as one of the nation's fastest-growing cities.
Organizations · United States - Robert Jacquinot de Besange
A French Jesuit priest who negotiated a civilian safe zone in wartime Shanghai in 1937, sheltering roughly 250,000 refugees from the fighting, an arrangement later cited as an influence on the 1949 Geneva Conventions' protections for civilians.
People · France - Rochelle Bilal
The first woman and first Black woman elected Sheriff of Philadelphia, a former police officer whose tenure has drawn sustained Inquirer investigative coverage, including a 2024 finding that her campaign used AI to fabricate news headlines.
People · United States - Saigontel
Vietnamese telecommunications and industrial infrastructure developer listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange, chaired by industrialist Dang Thanh Tam, that has expanded from telecom infrastructure into industrial parks, rooftop solar and AI data centres.
Organizations · Vietnam - Sam Altman
American technology entrepreneur and investor, chief executive of OpenAI since 2019, who co-founded Loopt, led Y Combinator, and was briefly removed and then reinstated as OpenAI's CEO in November 2023.
People · United States - Sam Sidiqi
Afghanistan-born, MIT-educated mountaineer who became the first Afghanistan-born climber to summit Denali in June 2021, using the climb to raise funds and awareness for his mountain-safety charity, Afghan Peaks.
People · United States - Sathupati Prasanna Sree
A linguist and English professor from Andhra Pradesh who has created scripts for tribal languages and became vice-chancellor of Adikavi Nannaya University in February 2025.
People · India - Satya Nadella
American technology executive and chief executive officer of Microsoft since 2014, who led its cloud-computing pivot, its 2023 hiring of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and testified in the 2026 Musk v. OpenAI trial.
People · United States - Seattle International Adoptions
Seattle-based adoption agency run by Lynn Devin that processed U.S. families' Cambodian adoptions arranged by her sister Lauryn Galindo; both agreed to forfeit the agency's profits after 2003-2004 federal fraud pleas.
Organizations · United States - Serge Losique
Founder of the Montreal World Film Festival who fought to keep it alive through a 2018 government funding cut, a tax dispute, and a legal battle with Telefilm Canada over a rival festival.
People · Canada - Severino Twinobusingye
A Ugandan senior advocate who won an unprecedented UGX 12.9 billion legal-fees award for a 2011 constitutional challenge, later represented Amama Mbabazi's 2016 presidential election petition, and now chairs the university council of the disputed Karamoja Peace and Technology University.
People · Uganda - Shana Merlin
An Austin, Texas improv performer and teacher who founded the Merlin Works Institute for Improvisation and has been reviewed and profiled by the Austin Chronicle across more than two decades of the city's improv scene.
People · United States - Shawmut National Corporation
A Hartford, Connecticut-based bank holding company formed in 1988 that survived a near-failure earnings scandal in 1990 before merging into Fleet Financial Group in 1995 in a $3.7 billion deal.
Organizations · United States - Sheer Logistics
A St. Louis-based, fee-based managed transportation and freight brokerage company, founded in 2009, that took on debt and equity investment from Woodlawn Partners and Monroe Capital in 2022 and acquired the 3PL company CargoBarn in 2024.
Organizations · United States - Sheffield Declaration
Resolutions adopted by Sheffield, Massachusetts on 12 January 1773 declaring "mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent" — language later echoed in the Declaration of Independence and the Massachusetts Constitution that Elizabeth Freeman's lawyer used to win her freedom in 1781.
Events & Documents · United States - Shibani Joshi
An American business and technology journalist who spent about six years as a Fox Business/Fox News reporter, whose on-air comparison of German and American solar potential drew an independent fact-check from Slate in 2013.
People · United States - Shieny Aprilia
Indonesian entrepreneur and co-founder of the Bandung video game developer Agate who was promoted from chief operating officer to chief executive in June 2022, succeeding Arief Widhiyasa.
People · Indonesia - Shomari Stone
An American broadcast journalist who has worked in the Miami and Washington markets, served as a CNBC correspondent, and joined WTTG in 2023 as a reporter and anchor.
People · United States - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
A 1908 synagogue building in Washington, D.C. that was reimagined in 2004 as a nonmembership Jewish congregation and cultural venue blending religious services with concerts, comedy and talks.
Places · United States - Smiths News PLC
A United Kingdom newspaper and magazine wholesaler whose modern public-company structure emerged from the 2006 demerger of W.H. Smith's news-distribution business.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Stevin Hoover
Former Kansas City hedge fund manager who ran Hoover Capital Management's Chestnut Fund and was permanently barred from the investment-advisory industry after pleading guilty to defrauding clients of roughly $200,000.
People · United States - Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
The regional transport authority for west-central Scotland, which owns and runs the Glasgow Subway, coordinates regional bus services, and was designated in 2023 to lead the Case for Investment for the proposed Clyde Metro network.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Süleyman Dilbirliği
A Turkish non-commissioned officer who, during the Korean War, found and cared for an orphaned five-year-old girl he named Ayla, was separated from her for sixty years by Korean law, and was reunited with her in 2010 in a reunion later covered by Turkish national press and a 2017 feature film.
People · Turkey - Susan Kandel
An American art critic turned mystery novelist, born 1961 in Los Angeles, who spent seven years as an art critic for the Los Angeles Times before writing the five-book "Cece Caruso" mystery series, independently reviewed by Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly.
People · United States - Svenskhuset Tragedy
The deaths of 17 seal hunters who overwintered at a Swedish trapping station on Svalbard in 1872-73, long attributed to scurvy until a 2008-2010 forensic study found lead poisoning from soldered food tins instead.
Events & Documents · Norway - SWA Magazine
Indonesian business magazine and media company, led for years by editor-in-chief Kemal Effendi Gani, that organizes recurring national corporate-recognition programs including the CGPI Award and the Indonesia Young Woman Future Business Leaders award.
Organizations · Indonesia - Tengo Project
Small development team within Natsume Atari, made up of veteran 1990s-era developers, known for restoring and remastering the studio's own classic games with redrawn pixel art and expanded rosters.
Organizations · Japan - Terra State Community College
A public community college in Fremont, Ohio, founded in 1968, that was placed under state fiscal watch in March 2026 and saw two interim presidents within four months after its president resigned.
Universities & Colleges · United States - The Bunny Game
A 2011 American exploitation-horror film that the British Board of Film Classification formally refused to classify in October 2011 over its unbroken focus on sexual and physical abuse, a rejection reported in detail across UK and US trade and genre press.
Creative Works · United States - The Cambodia Daily
Independent English-language Cambodian newspaper (1993-2017) whose investigative reporting included a 2002 profile of adoption facilitator Lauryn Galindo, shut down after a disputed $6.3 million government tax bill and later relaunched as a Washington-based digital nonprofit.
Organizations · Cambodia - The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025
A pending Indian bill that would dissolve the UGC, AICTE and NCTE into one higher-education regulator; introduced 15 December 2025 and referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee after opposition MPs raised centralization and federalism objections.
Events & Documents · India - Tourism 4.0
Slovenia's largest publicly funded tourism research and development initiative, led by the technology company Arctur with three Slovenian universities, built around a data-driven "Tourism Impact Model" piloted across Black Sea and Danube-region destinations.
Organizations · Slovenia - Trang Due Industrial Park
An industrial park in Hai Phong, Vietnam, developed by a majority-owned Kinh Bac City subsidiary and anchored by LG Display's first OLED display factory built anywhere in the world.
Places · Vietnam - Trump International, Vietnam
A $1.5 billion luxury golf and residential complex under development in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, the Trump Organization's first branded project in the country, developed in partnership with Vietnamese entrepreneur Dang Thanh Tam's Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation.
Organizations · Vietnam - Two Trees Management
A privately held, self-financed New York real-estate developer founded in 1968, known for redeveloping DUMBO, Brooklyn and the Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg — and for a 2013 tenant-overcharge correction and a 2017 rent-fraud lawsuit tied to city tax abatements at one of its buildings.
Organizations · United States - Umarkot Shiv Mandir
A Shiva temple near Umerkot in Sindh, Pakistan, recorded by the national archaeology department as privately owned and not legally protected, and the site of a three-day Shivratri festival drawing large crowds.
Places · Pakistan - Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act, 2025
Indian legislation enacted in December 2025 that repeals MGNREGA, raises the guaranteed rural employment entitlement from 100 to 125 days a year, and moves cost-sharing between the central and state governments to a 60:40 model.
Events & Documents · India - Vladislav Mikosha
Soviet cinematographer and photojournalist whose World War II footage and photographs of the siege of Sevastopol, and later color-photography work for Izvestia and Pravda, were the subject of a 2014 Swedish documentary.
People · Russia - Wales Book of the Year
An annual Welsh literary award administered by Literature Wales, given in parallel English- and Welsh-language categories including fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.
Organizations · United Kingdom - Walsh Bay
Historic Sydney Harbour wharf precinct built 1912-1921, named for engineer Henry Deane Walsh, that was closed to the public for nearly a century before its 1980s conversion into a cultural and arts precinct.
Places · Australia - Y Combinator
American startup accelerator founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell and Robert Morris, known for its seed-funding model and Demo Day, and led since 2023 by CEO Garry Tan.
Organizations · United States - Yaqoub Al-Rifai
Kuwaiti finance minister appointed in a February 2026 cabinet reshuffle, who has since represented Kuwait at international financial forums and restructured his ministry's senior leadership.
People · Kuwait - Youlbury House
A Grade II listed 1969–1971 modernist house on Boars Hill near Oxford, built on the site of archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans's demolished mansion and designed by landscape architect Hal Moggridge — one of only three houses he ever designed.
Places · United Kingdom - Yuhuatai Senior High School
A public senior high school in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, designated one of the province's first-batch "high-quality distinctive high schools," which expanded to citywide admissions for the first time in 2026.
Schools · China - Zabalaza Theatre Festival
An annual Cape Town theatre-development festival run by the Baxter Theatre Centre since around 2010, staging dozens of new South African works each March and awarding a professional two-week season to winning productions.
Organizations · South Africa