# World Monitor > AI‑powered real‑time aggregator for world news, financial markets, conflicts, and global incidents. Track wars, protests, outbreaks, earthquakes, flights, vessels, and markets on a live world map. **Canonical URL:** https://world-monitor.com **Official X / Twitter:** @WorldMonitorCom (https://x.com/WorldMonitorCom) **Identity:** This document describes the live global-events dashboard at **https://world-monitor.com** specifically. World Monitor is an independent, GDELT-powered project and is unrelated to any other application or service that may share part of the name. World Monitor is an independent, free-to-use live dashboard. At its core it ingests the GDELT Project (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) — a global news dataset covering 100+ languages — and overlays additional real-time data layers onto a single live world map. ## Primary - [Live world map](https://world-monitor.com/): The main dashboard. Live world events, conflicts, markets, and incidents on one interactive map. - [Sitemap](https://world-monitor.com/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap of all canonical pages. - [Full description](https://world-monitor.com/llms-full.txt): Long-form, prose description of the site, its data sources, and its features. ## What it tracks - Global events: conflicts, protests, diplomacy, civil incidents (sourced from GDELT) - Earthquakes: USGS real-time seismic feed - Disease outbreaks: global epidemiological surveillance signals - Live commercial flights: ADS-B aircraft positions - Maritime vessels: AIS ship positions - Stock markets: major exchanges, indices, ETFs, and individual equities - Cryptocurrency markets: major assets and live market data - Prediction markets: Polymarket and aggregated odds - International Space Station: live position and telemetry - Space launches: upcoming and recent launches worldwide - OSINT signals and live cameras around the world ## Optional - [GDELT Project](https://www.gdeltproject.org): Upstream data source for global events. World Monitor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by GDELT.