While recent data has raised hopes economies can still pull off a soft landing, last year's surge in inflation and the subsequent hiking of interest rates by central banks have many braced for economies to contract.

Climate change is increasing malaria infections, the executive director of the world's biggest health fund said in Davos on Monday.

Amid rising geopolitical risks, a vast majority of Indian CEOs have indicated in a survey that they are reducing or planning to reduce operating costs, even as they are more upbeat than their global peers on their country's economic prospects.