Global military expenditure saw its steepest increase in over a decade in 2023, reaching an all-time high of $2.4 trillion, as wars and rising tensions fuelled spending across the world, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). "There is really not a region in the world that things have gotten better in," says Nan Tian, a senior researcher at SIPRI. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES