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Finland was ranked the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report from 2023. The Nordic country scored 7.8 on a scale from 0 to 10. Two other Nordic countries, Denmark and Iceland, followed with a second and third place, respectively. The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.
Muslims residing in Oslo, Norway will be fasting in the middle of the month of Ramadan for a total of 16 hours and 26 minutes, between the times of 3:44 am and 8:10 pm. During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, observing Muslims worldwide abstain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sexual activities from sunrise to sunset.
Ramadan
The Islamic calendar is based on the lunar year; therefore, it is ten days shorter than the Gregorian solar calendar. Thus, Ramadan will take place from the 23rd March to the 21th of April 2023. The fasting hours are calculated from dusk until dawn of each day for the whole of the month of Ramadan. Differing fasting times in different places result from the fact that the length of each day varies based on the latitude of each location and changes each day due to the Earth's orbit around the sun. However, there might be slight interpretational differences between different schools of thought and branches of Islam.
Muslim world
According to the latest estimations there are over 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide. It is estimated that that by 2026 the Muslim population will increase to over 2.98 billion narrowing the gap with Christianity, whose community is projected to grow to just over three billion by then. The majority of Muslims worldwide are located in Asia, though it is only a quarter of the continent’s population.
In 2023, Cristiano Ronaldo became the soccer player with the most national team appearances, having featured in 197 matches for the Portuguese national team. The former Real Madrid forward is also Portugal's all time top scorer.
In February 2023, Discord.com saw approximately 801 million monthly website visits from users worldwide. Launched in 2015, Discord is a social and group communication platform that allows users to create their invite-only communities called servers, or join dedicated thematic servers. While Discord was launched as a gamers-first communication platform, it experienced an increase in popularity also among non-gaming communities during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
India was the leading market of Telegram by app downloads. Between January and December 2022, Indian users installed the messaging app approximately 104 million times. Russia ranked second, with over 34 million downloads over the observed period, while U.S. users installed the app nearly 27 million times. Brazil recorded the largest number of downloads among Latin American countries. France and Germany were the leading markets in Western Europe.
Telegram usage in India
Telegram had the fourth highest penetration rate among social media platforms in India, following WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. In the third quarter of 2021, nearly 57 percent of Indian active social media users reported having used Telegram over the past month. However, user engagement on Telegram in India was significantly lower than on other major networks. On average, Indian users spent 2.3 hours per month on the platform in 2021, which was 10 times shorter than on WhatsApp.
Growing popularity of Telegram
As of June 2022, Telegram had 700 million active users around the globe, having multiplied its audience tenfold since December 2014. Telegram recorded a sharp increase in global downloads in the first quarter of 2021, when WhatsApp, its competitor owned by Meta, updated its privacy policy. In March 2022, Telegram further increased its popularity in Russia after Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram were banned in the country. The number of daily active users (DAU) of Telegram nationwide grew by 15 percent between January and March 2022.
Total assets of Credit Suisse fell drastically in 2022 as it dropped to 531.36 billion Swiss francs, down from 755.83 billion Swiss Francs a year earlier. This was the lowest value of assets the Swiss bank reported since 2005. This sharp decrease was equivalent to a negative 29.7 percent asset growth rate, an unprecedented growth decrease for Credit Suisse. At the same time, market capitalization of Credit Suisse also fell significantly.
SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Online, the shopping app of the Chinese e-commerce retailer SHEIN Group, gained nearly 60 million app downloads across the world in the spring of 2023. The online-only fast-fashion company has a unique business model which makes use of algorithms and big data to predict fashion trends. Its algorithm-driven supply chain enables it to reduce the production time to one week and offer thousands of new items to its site every week at much lower price levels than its competitors.
From October 2021 to February 2023, the highest unemployment rate in India was recorded in December 2022, with 8.3 percent. As of February 2023, the unemployment rate was 7.45 percent, slightly higher than the previous month.
Russia's largest portion of revenue from fossil fuel exports since the war in Ukraine came from sales of oil, at approximately 211 billion euros as of March 22, 2023. Fossil gas exports brought the second largest revenue at around 81 billion euros. In total, Russia's revenue from exports of fossil fuels from February 24, 2022, amounted to approximately 318.9 billion euros. The leading export destinations were China and Germany.
As of March 17, 2023, the UK-based Comic Relief's Red Nose Day charity has raised over 31.95 million British pounds for 2023. Comic relief is centered around a telethon event, called 'Red Nose Day; which usually takes place in mid-March. The amount raised by this charity peaked in 2011 at 108.4 million British pounds, with the amount raised decreasing in the events since then.
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