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One story.
The whole world of coverage.

HAPPND organises what happened. Global reporting, news video, official statements and primary documents are gathered around persistent stories — with timelines, locations, people and every perspective in one place, so you can discover world events, understand them quickly and research them properly.

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News videos organised

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Protests spread across multiple cities

2h ago · 84 sources · 12 countries

OVERVIEWTIMELINECOVERAGEVIDEOS

SUMMARY

Demonstrations that began in the capital have expanded to at least 18 cities over the past 24 hours, with organisers calling for governance reforms and greater transparency.

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

8:10 AM

Government responds with official statement

12 sources

6:45 AM

Two regional capitals join the protests

31 sources

A HAPPND story file

Story-first

Reporting organised around events, not outlets.

Every source type

Video, articles, official statements and primary documents.

Global + local

See how one story is covered worldwide and closest to the event.

Live context

Timelines, people, places and each new development.

Research it

Ask questions grounded in the sources HAPPND holds.

The problem

One event.
Ten places to look.

To understand a single event today, you move between a publisher, a search page, a video platform, a social clip, and finally the official release — and then try to hold it all together yourself.

The reporting is not the problem. Journalists, broadcasters and institutions are producing more good material than at any point in history. What is missing is the layer that assembles it. HAPPND is that layer: an organisation and intelligence surface over journalism, not a replacement for it.

The centrepiece

The story is the interface.

A headline expires within hours. The event it described keeps going. In HAPPND the persistent object is the Story — and everything else attaches to it: the videos, the articles, the official statements, the documents, each new development, the people and places involved, and the timeline that holds it together.

Content is ephemeral.
Stories persist.

Switch between the tabs to see what a story file holds →

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Illustrative

A persistent story file opens with what is established, what changed most recently, and how widely the event is being covered — before you read a single headline.

148

Evidence items

37

Sources

19

Countries

Status: developing

Updated continuously as new evidence arrives

Every item keeps its provenance

Publisher · country · language · timestamp · reporting type

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The product

Six ways into the same world.

Pillar 01 — NOW

What's actually happening?

A ranked view of the world's most consequential stories, with breaking and developing status on each. New developments surface as updates to a story you already follow, instead of another twelve near-identical headlines.

  • Importance ranking, not publication volume
  • Breaking and developing status
  • Updates, not duplicates
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Ceasefire talks begin between two delegations

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SAVED

Pillar 02 — WORLD

Explore the news geographically.

Move across the map and find stories you would never have known to search for. Every located story shows who is covering it nearby and who is covering it from the other side of the world.

  • Map-led discovery
  • Regional story clusters
  • Local versus international coverage
Open WORLD

Pillar 03 — STORIES

One event, every connected piece of evidence.

The Story File is the product. Overview and Latest for orientation. Timeline for how it unfolded. Watch, Read and Primary for the evidence itself. People, Places and Context for the knowledge extracted from it. Coverage and Research to interrogate the whole set.

  • Overview · Latest · Timeline
  • Watch · Read · Primary
  • People · Places · Coverage · Research
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9:41▪▪ ▲ ▮
STORY···

Protests spread across multiple cities

2h ago · 84 sources · 12 countries

OVERVIEWTIMELINECOVERAGEVIDEOS

SUMMARY

Demonstrations that began in the capital have expanded to at least 18 cities over the past 24 hours, with organisers calling for governance reforms and greater transparency.

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

8:10 AM

Government responds with official statement

12 sources

6:45 AM

Two regional capitals join the protests

31 sources

Pillar 04 — WATCH

Global video reporting without endless search.

News video from wires, broadcasters and official channels, indexed and attached to the stories it belongs to. Every clip carries its channel, publication time and the story it documents, and plays through the official embed.

  • Attributed to source and story
  • Live, breaking, explainer and briefing
  • Official embeds only
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Video-first stories

04:21

Indonesia volcano eruption forces thousands to evacuate

Reuters · 2h ago · 1.2M views

Ceasefire talks begin between two delegations

BBC · 08:32

Markets rally as inflation cools in the U.S.

CNBC · 06:15

Heatwaves continue across Europe

DW · 05:40

NOW
WORLD
STORIES
WATCH
SAVED

Pillar 05 — RESEARCH

Ask the story.

Retrieval first: every answer is assembled from evidence HAPPND has actually stored, with links back to the original reporting. AI organises and summarises journalism here. It does not replace it, and it does not invent citations.

  • Grounded in stored evidence
  • Every claim links to its source
  • No fabricated citations
Open RESEARCH

Pillar 06 — PRIMARY SOURCES

Go beyond commentary.

Official statements, government releases, institutional documents, filings and press conferences sit alongside reporting on the same story — and are labelled as what they are, so you can tell a primary record from an account of it.

  • Primary source vs reporting labels
  • Official and institutional channels
  • Publisher attribution preserved
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Attached to every item

  • PublisherNamed source, country and language
  • Reporting typeReporting · Primary source · Statement · Analysis
  • TimingPublished and retrieved timestamps
  • Link outCanonical URL back to the original

Perspective

See every perspective.

A newsroom two streets from an event emphasises different details than one reporting from another continent. Both matter. HAPPND places them side by side on the same story and keeps every attribution intact — source, country, language, reporting type and time.

We do not claim to deliver unbiased news, and we do not label outlets ideologically. We show you who reported what, from where, and when — and link straight back to them.

Closest to the event

Local and regional outlets reporting on the ground.

International coverage

How the same event is framed from other regions.

Primary record

Official statements and documents, labelled as primary.

Coverage spread

Which regions and languages are covering it at all.

Discovery by geography

Stories are happening everywhere.

Located story files plot onto a live map, so a region you never search becomes something you can simply look at.

EXPLORE WORLD
World map with active story hotspots

Time

From breaking news to history.

A story does not end when it stops trending. Today's live coverage becomes tomorrow's timeline, and over time a searchable record of how an event actually unfolded and what was known at each stage.

Today

Breaking

Live developments arrive as story updates with timestamps and sources.

This month

Timeline

The story compresses into a readable sequence of what happened, in order.

Later

Archive

The story file remains searchable evidence of the event and its coverage.

The archive deepens as HAPPND runs. We do not claim a back catalogue we have not collected.

Discovery

You shouldn't have to know what you're looking for to understand what's happening in the world.

Built for discovery, not just search. HAPPND surfaces what you would never have thought to query.

Happening now

The stories moving fastest across the world right now.

You probably missed

Consequential events outside the headlines you were served.

Around the world

The same day, read from five different regions.

Developing

Live story files still gaining evidence and updates.

Worth understanding

Slower stories with unusual depth of primary material.

How HAPPND works

Ingest. Connect. Verify provenance. Explain.

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Ingest

Server-side adapters continuously pull wire, broadcaster, RSS, official-source and news video feeds.

02

Connect

Items are deduplicated and clustered onto the persistent story they belong to, and onto the specific development within it.

03

Verify provenance

Publisher, country, language, timestamp, canonical link and reporting type stay attached to every item. Sources are attributed, never flattened into one voice.

04

Explain

Timelines, people, places and claims are extracted with citations back to the evidence they came from.

HAPPND links out to publishers rather than republishing their work where rights do not allow it, and does not treat every source as equivalent. Reporting, analysis, opinion and primary records are labelled distinctly so you can weigh them yourself.

A lot HAPPND today.

Start with what the world is actually dealing with right now — then follow any story as far as the evidence goes.

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