Asia · Friday, 6 November 2026
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No written brief today: there’s too little data for one, or the draft didn’t pass our checks.
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Michelangelo, Public domain 4Adam
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Mike Monaghan from Seattle, United States, CC BY 2.0 Rising
Top today
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Everyday apps here: Claude by Anthropic · Google Gemini · Assalatu Noor - الصلاة نور · Chromagraph Camera · Tiny Computers. Apps that top the charts every day. They’re listed after what’s new or in the news.
What the news is talking about
How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 1,517 articles by the country’s own news sites over the last 7 days. How we read the news
Share of the coverage
- الأمن الوطني يضبط طائرة مسيّرة تحمل مقذوفاً حربياً في كركوك (almadapaper.net)
- Would President Vance really ditch Israel? (iraqsun.com)
- 今晨國際頭條一次看／民主黨大勝引爆AI股拋售 美股單日蒸發3.2兆美元 | 全球財經 | 全球 (udn.com)
- 让AI走向开放，让治理跟上发展——2026年世界互联网大会乌镇峰会中外专家凝聚共识 (stdaily.com)
- Democracy and elections More than usual
- Health More than usual
- 撞上AI崩盘！今晚，一份强劲非农报告，或给美股又一重击 (wallstreetcn.com)
- Irak Çevre Bakanı Abdülvahid: Türkiye ile çevre alanındaki ilişkilerimizi daha ileri taşımak istiyoruz (aa.com.tr)
- Irak Çevre Bakanı Türkiye ile çevre işbirliğini güçlendirmek istediklerini söyledi (haberler.com)
Survey · 2023 58% Worried about climate change (Climate Change Opinion Survey (Meta, Yale), survey of Facebook users)
How the news sounds
- Tone−1.5positive minus negative words per 100usually −1.9The GDELT Project
- Anxiety0.9× usual3.8 words per 1,000usually 4.1The GDELT Project
- Fear0.8× usual0.7 words per 1,000usually 0.8The GDELT Project
- Anger1.0× usual9.0 words per 1,000usually 9.4The GDELT Project
- Sadness1.0× usual8.2 words per 1,000usually 7.8The GDELT Project
- Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.4The GDELT Project
- Financial uncertainty1.0× usual9.5 words per 1,000usually 9.3The GDELT Project
News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.
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Issues people are looking up
The top topics in politics, the economy, tech, science, health, climate, education and society that people here read and search about today.
Amir Hesaminejad, CC BY 4.0 Ibn Dagara, CC BY-SA 4.0
By category
Cars & transport
1دربونة - تطبيق الملاحة العراقي
Everyday app
Nature, climate & disasters
1Weather Bot: Alerts and Radar
Everyday app
Everyday app
Education & careers
Everyday app
Everyday app
Fashion & beauty
Everyday app
Everyday app
Everyday app
Food & drink
Everyday app
Everyday app
Health & wellness
Everyday app
Everyday app
Money & crypto
Everyday app
Everyday app
Movies & TV
Miss Understand, CC BY 3.0
Science & space
Amir Hesaminejad, CC BY 4.0
Society & beliefs
Everyday app
Sports
Alhabea, CC BY-SA 4.0 Barcex, CC BY-SA 4.0 Zarateman, CC0
Travel & places
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), CC BY 3.0 Legohun, CC BY-SA 3.0 Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0
Industries here
Music 48Tech & software 11Media & entertainment 7Sports & fitness 7Advertising & marketing 4Telecom & internet 4Travel & tourism 3Gaming 2Nonprofits & NGOs 2Retail & e-commerce 1AI 1Health & pharma 1Science & research 1Government & public sector 1Legal & professional services 1Jobs, HR & staffing 1
The numbers behind the mood
The latest official figures, with the period each one covers. Yearly numbers can be a year or more old.
Economy
- Inflation-25.5%Jan 2016 · −27.7 pts since Dec 2015World Bank GEM · CC BY 4.0
- Unemployment15.5%2025 · +0.2 pts since 2024World Bank (ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0
- GDP growth-2.2%2025 · −0.6 pts since 2024World Bank · CC BY 4.0
- Youth unemployment32.0%2025 · +0.3 pts since 2024World Bank (ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0
Research
Most-published fields last month
- Materials Chemistry
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Political Science and International Relations
Society
- People online81.5%2024 · −0.3 pts since 2023World Bank (ITU) · CC BY 4.0
- Say humans mainly cause climate change29.3%survey of Facebook users2023Meta Data for Good and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication · CC0 (public domain)
- Want climate made a high government priority52.6%survey of Facebook users2023Meta Data for Good and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication · CC0 (public domain)
Charts
Apple Music · Artists
1Tul8te
Breakout
2Blok3
3Marwan Pablo
Falling
4Amr Diab
6Fadel Chaker
listenarabic.com, CC BY 3.0 7Elissa
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Apple Music · 2026-11-07
App Store · Free apps
1SuperQi
2Claude by Anthropic
Breakout
3ChatGPT
Falling
4گۆچان – Kurdish Keyboard
5CapCut
Falling
6Baly حجز تكسي،توصيل طعام | بلي
7Google Gemini
Rising
8WhatsApp
Falling
9Snapchat
Falling
10Google Discover
Show the top 100
App Store · 2026-11-07
App Store · Paid apps
1Assalatu Noor - الصلاة نور
Rising
2AutoSleep: Watch Sleep Tracker
3V2Box Pro - V2ray Client
4Chromagraph Camera
Breakout
5Tiny Computers
Breakout
6BerryFilm - Korean Style Cam
7Disk Decipher
8Image Converter!
9DrawOn
10Shadowrocket
Falling
Show the top 50
App Store · 2026-11-07
Data credits: App Store · Apple Music · Google Trends · Wikipedia. These signals show what people look up, watch, play and buy online. How it works.