COVER STORY This issue: The Best Inventions of 2022. Innovation booms in a rapidly shifting world. So for our annual list of the world’s most exciting innovations, TIME editors combed through more products and services than ever, and added categories that focus on sustainability. The result: 200 amazing inventions that make the world better, smarter, or just more fun…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

The World Cup has brought global attention to the deadly perils of working in extreme temperatures— and a new model for doing so safely. Not long after the Gulf nation of Qatar was awarded the rights to host the 2022 World Cup soccer championships, Surendra Tamang hatched a plan to go. He had heard that Qatar was recruiting many other Nepali laborers to work in Doha building the stadiums and related infrastructure projects. So in 2015 he took out a loan to cover the recruitment agency’s fees and applied for a construction job…

Pakistan’s politics were plenty toxic even before the failed assassination against ousted former Prime Minister Imran Khan. When Khan was removed from power following a parliamentary vote of no confidence in April, he claimed Pakistan’s military and its friends in Washington wanted to silence him. He then kicked off a series of protest marches that have drawn massive crowds. In October, Khan insinuated that the army had killed a journalist, an uncharacteristically blunt frontal assault on Pakistan’s army, and the country’s head of military intelligence felt compelled to call an unprecedented public press conference to deny the charge….