Cortana brings new interests to users outside US !!

The Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 brought Cortana to China and the UK in beta and to India, Australia, and Canada in alpha.

    

Before the latest update, Cortana users like India (alpha) had limited interests available – news and weather. However, there's a slew of new categories of interests that one can add and can keep a tab on, including very useful features like trip planner, daily routine, local events, eat + drink, fitness tracker, et al.

The gradual trickling of new features in Cortana's Notebook is pretty good for users outside US, and helps Microsoft gain a lot of data from diverse users in different geographies.