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🇬🇧 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to make math mandatory for all students up to 18 years old. Traditionally, 16- to 18-year-old students in the UK are allowed to choose which academic subjects they learn – and less than half are currently studying math, per the BBC. PM Sunak said his plan is intended to better prepare UK students for the modern job market, and to ensure they feel confident when it comes to personal finances.

🇩🇰 Denmark just recorded its first year without any bank robberies in history. In 2000, Denmark saw 221 bank robberies, a number that slowly dwindled to less than 10 per year since 2017. Government officials attributed the recent milestone to an increasingly cashless society – the use of cash in the country has nearly halved over the past five years, from 23% of all payments to 12% currently.

🇷🇺 Russia’s military blamed last week’s airstrike that killed dozens of its troops on the unauthorized use of cell phones. On New Year’s Eve, Ukraine launched an airstrike on a Russian military unit in occupied Donetsk that officials in Kyiv said killed 400 soldiers. At the time, Russian officials claimed 63 troops were killed – but yesterday, Moscow updated the official tally to 89, and asserted that unsanctioned cell phones used by those troops allowed Ukraine to locate them.