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Bloomberg
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Trump's Caucasus Gambit to Open New East-West Trade Corridor
Along a mountainous stretch of the South Caucasus lies a potentially important trade route—one that straddles a series of geopolitical flashpoints that have set off countless conflicts over the centuries, right up into recent years. And it's about to be named after Donald Trump.
South China Morning Post
21 hours ago
- General
- South China Morning Post
An ‘elegant' English name would be all wrong for my Hong Kong baby
Hong Kong's Births Registry gives new parents 42 days to name their child before imposing a fine. This might seem enough, but when you are navigating new motherhood, learning to keep a tiny human alive while your body heals, time becomes both endless and insufficient. It took me nearly all that time to settle on two names, not from indecision, but from the weight of history. Months before my daughter arrived, I had chosen for her a Chinese name meaning 'dwell in peace'. The name came from a psalm, for the inexplicable peace I found during pregnancy despite life's circumstances. For her English name, I waited to meet her first. In Hong Kong, parents tend to put down names in both English and Chinese on the birth certificate, a reflection of our city's official languages. Most local parents either romanise their child's Chinese name using Jyutping, or choose a Western name – a colonial practice that still echoes through our classrooms and offices. Fortunately, my stepfather insisted on keeping my childhood name, Mimi, arguing that it readily bridges both worlds and thus sparing me an identity struggle. But my daughter's name called for deeper consideration. Her heritage – a tapestry of Han Chinese, Hui and Yoruba – would shape her identity in a city where racial difference often encounters visible and invisible boundaries. She arrived after three intense hours of labour, with flushed skin, deep brown eyes and a crown of straight black hair. On her first day, spent in the neonatal intensive care unit, I had time to study her features. When I finally held her, I knew with absolute certainty she was perfect exactly as she was. 'She looks just like you!' was the most common remark from friends. At first, she did. The only hints of melanin were in her dusky cuticles and the upper curves of her ears. Although I joked that God's paintbrush was running dry, I privately wondered if looking more Chinese might make her life easier in Hong Kong.
Daily Mail
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Missouri couple claim their newborn baby's name has NOTHING to do with Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift after 'attention-seeking' backlash
Robert Dillon and Haley Richardson naming their newborn baby Kelce Taylor-Grace Dillion caused a stir online, with the parents claiming their choice had nothing to do with going viral. On Friday, Liberty Hospital at the University of Kansas revealed a sweet photo of a newborn on its Facebook page. The tyke was swaddled in a white blanket with a big yellow bow on her head, lying next to a red Kansas City Chiefs jersey with the name Kelce on it. A sign just above the infant's head featured a cartoon of Swift in cowboy boots and announced her name would be Kelce Taylor. Being in the heart of Chiefs Kingdom with a name like that was sure to get attention. Yet, the new parents insist it was the right fit for them and nothing having to do with public perception. 'We felt like the name was appropriate because we would like her to grow up to have his spirit of helping others and making sure his community is better off when he leaves than when he got there,' Dillon said per TODAY. 'Give her some really great people to kind of emulate as she gets older, if she wants to,' Richardson added. The post from Liberty Hospital has garnered more than 12k likes since it was posted. Plenty of reaction came in about the name. 'Send this to the podcast. I'm sure Travis would be honored,' suggested one commenter. 'Gosh I hope Travis and Taylor never break up,' wrote one cautious fan. Everything Kelce and Swift has had plenty of attention behind it since they became a public item in September 2023. Travis is about to enter another NFL season with plenty of speculation he could retire after his mainstream profile skyrocketed with having Swift on his arm. Swift has enjoyed more of a low-key 2025 after wrapping her worldwide 'Eras Tour' late last year. Swift nor Kelce have acknowledged the baby directly since its internet fame began.
The Sun
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I'm a nurse and here's the worst baby name I have ever heard – it's so bad it keeps me awake at night
WE'VE all put on a false smile when we've heard a baby name that gives us the ick. However, even the most po-faced of people would struggle to keep a straight face after hearing this moniker. A nurse has revealed the very worst baby name she has ever heard, claiming that it still keeps her up at night. 'Richie Rich Putin,' wrote the disgusted Reddit user from Germany, adding that labor and delivery nurses at a local birthing center had recently deemed it the the 'worst name' to ever curse the cradle. It's a 'creative' combination of actor Macaulay Culkin 's 1990s classic film 'Richie Rich,' and the last name of Russian president, Vladimir Putin. 'I used to think the name laws are more strict [in Germany] than in other countries,' wrote the Redditor. 'The city will decide whether the name you chose is an actual name or the child will be bullied for it.' However, this particularly unusual title clearly fell through the cracks. 'Just felt like I had to share that while lying awake thinking about my soon-to-be-born child's name,' she added. Fellow redditors were equally horrified, sharing their thoughts in the comments. 'Do parents really hate their child that much? Or do they think it's funny and don't think it through for the kid's future?,' questioned a concerned commenter. 'That poor child,' another sighed. 'Can you imagine all oligarch bootlicking that must go on in its home?' Channel 4 star horrifies fans as she reveals 'truly awful' baby names ahead of birth of second child Sadly, side-eye-worthy baby names are currently en vogue among expecting moms worldwide. Be they Disney-inspired handles such as 'Snow White' and 'Se7en Simba,' or geographically-influenced names à la 'Elae' — pronounced LA, like the abbreviation for Los Angeles, California. Emma Hutton, who crowned her daughter Elae, doesn't seem to understand why haters have a hard time embracing the unconventional name. 'I know everyone's not going to like it. I know it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea,' Hutton barked in a viral vid. 'But I like different names.' 'It's 2025,' she added. 'I didn't know that people wouldn't be able to understand basic English.' The struggle of choosing a baby name CHLOE Morgan, a Senior Writer at Fabulous, has revealed her dilemma on choosing a baby name... At 35 weeks pregnant, by far the trickiest part of pregnancy for me in the past few months (minus the insomnia and countless night-time wee breaks!) has been trying to decide on a baby name. The dilemmas are endless... My partner and I went for a private scan to find out the gender as early as we could - partly due to the fact we thought it would make baby naming so much easier because we'd only have to come up with a list of names for one gender rather than two. How wrong we were... I was absolutely thrilled to be told I was expecting the baby girl I'd already dreamed of, but being one of the last of my friends to fall pregnant, I've had countless conversations over the years with excited pals discussing their top baby which I wish I could go back in time and un-hear. With each friend mentioning at least 10 possible monikers, I can't help but feel like several are now a no-go even though I know it's something that none of them would mind in the slightest - it's a total me problem! The debate comes up time and time again on social media forums - can you choose the same name that was a "potential" for a friend's baby? It's a very divisive topic and opinions are always I don't want to be THAT person. While some will argue there's thousands of other names out there to choose from, others will say you need to choose YOUR all, there's no guarantee that person will even have another baby. Then there's also the issue of finding a name you to research it online and read one negative comment amongst hundreds of positives that you just can't shake off. I made that very mistake when I fell in love with a certain name (I won't reveal it because I don't want to ruin it for others!) ...only to see someone point out that it constantly gets autocorrected on a phone to something rather rude instead. So, back to the drawing board we went.. Just five weeks to go and it looks like our little one is going to be known as 'baby gal' for a little while longer!
The Drive
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Drive
Here's the Graveyard of Every Abandoned EV Naming Scheme so Far
The latest car news, reviews, and features. Between rolled back sales targets, rolled back product plans, and rolled back tax credits, we seem to be straying further and further from the silent, emissions-free electric car utopia once promised by lawmakers and automakers alike. As flawed as the entire trend toward full electrification and indeed some of the cars themselves might be, one of the more laughable aspects of this whole thing might just be how bad carmakers have been at naming the things. Companies came in hot with radical, new labels and entire nomenclatures that fell flat, confused potential buyers, and ultimately, got abandoned. Here's every one of those ambitious EV naming schemes that have been phased out… so far. Instead of, say, capitalizing on the immense value of 'Prius,' Toyota decided to call its first current-era U.S.-market EV the bZ4X, with 'bZ' standing for 'beyond zero' (it might as well have stood for 'buzzword') and being the brand's standard prefix for future electric Toyotas. From the jump, this was a terrible name, as evidenced by the fact that the just-facelifted version of the car has already dropped the '4X' part of the moniker. A Toyota exec also confirmed to CarBuzz this week that the company would indeed start to move away from the 'bZ' thing entirely, at least stateside, in favor of 'existing names in our portfolio for brand recognition and name recognition.' The lighting in this press picture of the 2026 bZ is weirdly gloomy, almost as if Toyota's saying, 'Yeah, we hate the name, too.' Toyota Similar to Toyota's 'bZ' setup, Volkswagen has so far denoted every one of its EVs with the 'ID' tag. There's the ID 4 crossover and the ID Buzz bus in the U.S., while the ID 3 hatchback, ID 5 and 6 crossovers, and ID 7 sedan hold down the fort overseas. Just last week, however, a board member said that the company would ditch this convention in favor of 'proper names.' Think Polo, Jetta, or Golf, but just, y'know, electric. The ID series gets extra bonehead points for being annoyingly inconsistent with its stylized dots and spaces when the names appear in VW literature. (It's 'ID. Buzz' but 'ID.4,' but I swear I've seen ' before and also 'I.D. Buzz') Extremely helpful for online publishing and search engine optimization! Volkswagen When Mercedes first started cooking up its EV strategy in 2016, it originally planned to have 'Mercedes-EQ' be its own subbrand, a bit like how Mercedes-AMG is (on paper, at least) its own thing. That never happened, and recent electric Benzes have even pushed the 'EQ' portion of their names back. Rather than 'EQG,' the electric G-Class is officially called the G580 With EQ Technology—no, really, that is its formal name—while the new, electric CLA's government name is CLA With EQ Technology. That said, both Mercedes and the automotive press seem to use those full names pretty rarely, and there isn't really any physical 'EQ' badging on the cars themselves. To most people, they're just the CLA and the electric G-Wagen. Now, was that so hard? Mercedes-Benz Mercedes Benz In early 2023, Audi decided that going forward, odd-numbered models (A3, A5, A7) would be gas cars while even models (A4, A6, A8) would be electric. As a result, the new-gen A4 sedan, one of Audi's most popular models and one with quite a bit of name recognition, would henceforth be known as the A5 since it was not yet an EV. Besides the unnecessary changing of names people have gotten used to hearing for decades, the even-odd setup's seemingly arbitrary EV-gas designation made it one of those binary distinctions that's hard to remember in practice. Like which side of the styrofoam takeout box is the top and which is the bottom; or which way the USB-A charger is supposed to plug in; or which Tokyo airport is the one close to the city—HND or NRT? I have to Google it every time. In the process of writing this story, for example, I had to check, like, five different times that I had the even-odd, gas-electric setup correct. Audi Quick, without scrolling back up two paragraphs: Which were the electric Audis, even or odd? See? You've already forgotten. In any case, Audi abandoned that naming scheme earlier this year, opting to add an 'E-Tron' suffix to the names of its electric cars. While it was never the actual name of a car or series of cars, General Motors' battery and electric powertrain moniker 'Ultium' arguably deserves a place on this list. It sounded cool, I'll give it that, but it seemed to get axed with about as much rhyme and reason as it had for ever being a thing in the first place. Underpinning GM EVs from the Equinox to the Hummer, Ultium was introduced in 2020 and mentioned pretty consistently in GM EV marketing and press materials. Late last year, the name was dumped as the company pledged to move away from a 'one-type-fits-all' approach to batteries. GMC Got a tip or question for the author? You can reach him here: Chris Tsui is The Drive's Reviews Editor. He oversees the site's car reviews operation in addition to pitching in on industry news and writing his own evaluations of the latest rides. He lives in Toronto.
