Fewer than 400,000 babies were born in Italy in 2022, deepening what has been referred to as a “national emergency.” The country’s population has declined to historically low levels, according to figures released by the EU nation’s National Institute of Statistics.

Bezymianny in Kamchatka ejected a 12,000-meter-tall ash cloud, Russia’s air regulator said Aircraft have been strongly advised to review flight routes due to a powerful volcanic outburst in Russia’s far-eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, according to a statement by the Federal Agency for Air Transport, Rosaviatsiya, published on Saturday.

February sales slumped by more than 20% in annual terms, an industry association says Worldwide sales of microchips declined 4% in February in monthly terms to $39.7 billion, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported on Thursday.