At midnight on 15 July 2026, Gibraltar’s 118-year-old border fence with Spain came down as the British territory joined the EU’s Schengen zone. Mapped: where Gibraltar sits and what the treaty changes.

EU asylum claims fell 27% in 2025, but the map was redrawn: Venezuela overtook Afghanistan as the top origin and Spain overtook Germany as the top destination. Mapped, by origin and destination.

As AIDS 2026 opens in Rio, a map of the global HIV epidemic: where prevalence is highest, where the most people live with HIV, and the funding cliff threatening two decades of progress.

From Paris to Prague, Madrid to Melbourne, a growing list of cities has banned shared e-scooter fleets. Mapped: where rental scooters are banned, suspended or capped in 2026.

The UBS Global Wealth Report 2026 shows average wealth soaring while the typical person stalls. Mapped: average vs median wealth per adult, and why Germany falls furthest, below Greece.

Days of record monsoon rain have killed at least 44 people and stranded over a million in southeastern Bangladesh, with the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar hit hardest. We map the 2026 disaster.

The EU’s 2025 figures reveal a stark map of who gets a Schengen visa and who doesn’t: a 4% refusal rate for China, 51.9% for Senegal. We map refusal rates by nationality and by issuing state, and the €157m rejection tax.

As The Open returns to Royal Birkdale, we map every country’s all-time golf major championships, from the USA’s 291 to Scotland, the home of golf, whose glory is almost entirely frozen before World War Two.

An all-Czech Wimbledon final caps a golden run for Czech tennis. We map every country’s all-time haul of Grand Slam singles titles, from the USA’s 353 to the nations still chasing their first.

Wildfires have killed at least 14 people across Europe in 2026 as record heat dries out the Mediterranean. We map the major fires, the worst-hit countries, and how 2026 compares to 2025’s record season.

H5N1 bird flu has reached every continent. We map the 2025-26 outbreak by country: poultry losses, the spread to cattle, and 993 human cases since 2003.

1 GB of mobile data costs $0.02 in Israel and $43.75 in Zimbabwe. The US, Canada and Switzerland pay more than 90% of countries. Full map + rankings across 237 countries.

Eurostat granted 80,424 first residence permits to U.S. citizens in 2024. Spain overtook France as #1, Germany slid to third, and the post-2024-election surge is only just starting to show. Full map + top-15 ranking.

The European Court of Justice killed the EU’s last golden passport in April 2025. Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK have closed their golden visas since 2022. Here is where residency and citizenship by investment still exist in 2026 – and how much each programme costs.

In 2024 migrant workers sent home a record $857 billion. India alone received $137bn. But by share of GDP the story flips: Tajikistan runs on remittances at 47%, Tonga at 39%. Two maps of the same money.

Revolut runs personal accounts in the UK, all 30 EEA countries, Switzerland, and 15+ other markets in 2026, but ‘available’ means very different things in Tokyo, Toronto, Bangalore and Boston. Mapped, with the country-by-country fine print.

The EU Inc 28th Regime proposal promises one online incorporation, under €100, valid across all 27 Member States. Meanwhile, incorporation costs run from €50 in Ireland to €3,000 in Italy, and corporate tax rates from 9% in Hungary to 35% in Malta. Full comparison, plus the residency triangle that decides where profits actually get taxed.

Apple runs 537 company-owned retail stores across 27 countries. Half sit in the United States; China’s 50 come next. We mapped every one, ranked every country and profiled the flagships. Saudi Arabia joins the club in 2026.

Australia went first in late 2025. By July 2026 five countries are enforcing nationwide social media bans on under-16s, three more have laws taking effect in 2027, and at least five others are drafting their own. Mapped, with what each law actually says.

Gold topped the US export table for three straight months in early 2026, with a record $17.88 billion leaving in February alone. The reason is a tariff that never happened: it pulled $135 billion of bullion into New York, broke the Fed’s GDP model, and then sent it all flowing back out. Mapped, charted and explained.