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South China Morning Post
6 hours ago
- Climate
- South China Morning Post
Dozens dead as severe flooding hits Beijing and neighbouring provinces
China has allocated millions in emergency funds to regions devastated by heavy downpours and floods that...
ABC News
3 days ago
- Health
- ABC News
Bloody Good Tour aims to save lives and beat blood donation record
Simon Braun is out for blood. Quite literally. The father of three has spent the past year driving around the country with his kids, visiting the nearly 80 Lifeblood centres across Australia. "Simmo" said he hoped to enlist more than 33,000 new blood donations, donating plasma himself about every fortnight. But tens of thousands of kilometres in a caravan, distance education, and regular donations have not drained him. "Donating blood energises me," he said. Donating blood has been a constant bright spot through Mr Braun's challenges. He recalled sitting in the donor chair during a "dark time" in his life, and feeling "genuinely happy" for the first time in a long time. He joined the dots. There have long been barriers to blood donation for many people. This month, Lifeblood relaxed its rules around sexual activity and donation. Gay and bisexual men and transgender women who have sex with men were allowed to donate plasma. Lifeblood said it was working towards similar changes for whole blood and platelet donation. In 2022, people who were in the UK during the "mad cow disease" outbreak were allowed to donate again after a 22-year ban. Lifeblood researcher Rachel Thorpe said while safety for donors and recipients was the priority, the organisation hoped to get as many people as possible in the blood donation chair. "Ultimately we would like more people to be eligible to donate blood," she said. Being in the regions has also stopped people donating, with Lifeblood centres concentrated in cities. WA has no permanent centres north of Perth, and the NT's only permanent centre is in Darwin. There are pop up centres in some regional towns, and Lifeblood also has mobile "blood buses" to allow country people to donate. But ultimately, cities and regional centres have the most potential with 90 per cent of Australians living within half an hour of a donor centre. And for people who could not regularly donate, Dr Thorpe said having people such as Mr Braun start the conversation was a big help. "A lot of people don't really talk about blood donation, it's one of the big barriers to donating blood," she said. Dr Thorpe said common "misunderstandings" often stopped people donating. One of those was people believing they were too old to donate — a myth Dr Thorpe was keen to bust. Australians can be a first-time donor until they are 75, and if they have already donated in the past, there is no upper age limit. Fear of needles has been another common setback. But Mr Braun said that was not necessarily a bad problem to have. "It's actually quite a privilege to be able to, with courage, face your fear head-on," he said. He encouraged nervous donors to keep recipients front of mind. "Maybe that's the five-year-old with leukaemia who doesn't get a choice about whether they get the needle or not," he said. But in the thousands of conversations Mr Braun has had about blood donation in the past year, the common theme was not fear, or lack of information, or distance. It was time. "Everybody's busy these days," he said. "In fact, you ask someone how they are and they say 'busy'." His answer to the dilemma was simple. "A blood donation takes maybe seven minutes with a needle in the arm for whole blood, and you're in and out in half an hour," he said. Mr Braun and his family have been documenting each leg of their journey on The Bloody Good Tour website. The culmination of the tour will be a national record attempt on July 31. Mr Braun will be donating in Sydney, where the tour wraps up. But he has asked people from all over the country to sign up to his donor team, to reach the most donations in a single day by one team. The number to beat is 523: a record set by Commonwealth Bank employees in May. "With a bit of cheek, we can't let a bank hold the record," Mr Braun said.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Ripple (XRP) Drops 5.2%, Leading Index Lower
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4054.25, down 2.3% (-94.67) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. One of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+0.3%) and ETH (-0.8%).Laggards: XRP (-5.2%) and ADA (-5.1%). The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.
Al Arabiya
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Russian police raid popular online media site
Russia's online media site Baza said police raided its office and its editor-in-chief's flat on Tuesday, as investigators launched a probe into media leaks from law enforcement. Baza ('Base') specializes in criminal news, has more than 1.5 million subscribers on Telegram, and is known to have good sources within law enforcement agencies. 'Police officers raided Baza offices,' the outlet wrote on Telegram, adding that they 'also visited the apartment of Baza editor-in-chief Gleb Trifonov, who is currently unreachable.' Russia's Investigative Committee published a post on Telegram saying it had 'initiated a criminal case on abuse of authority by police officers.' It said that raids were conducted in Moscow and in several other regions, without specifying if these were related to the Baza probe. Police members are suspected of leaking classified information that later appeared 'on one of the Telegram channels,' the investigators said. Moscow has escalated its decade-long crackdown on independent media amid its military offensive on Ukraine by passing sweeping censorship laws, effectively banning any criticism of the military.
Bloomberg
22-07-2025
- Automotive
- Bloomberg
Bloombergnef's Electric Vehicle Outlook 2025
The electric vehicle landscape is evolving unevenly across regions. A mix of technological developments, policy decisions, and global political dynamics are shaping growth trends across markets and vehicle types. BloombergNEF's Electric Vehicle Outlook 2025 offers insights into both the near- and long-term pathways for EV adoption, the transformation of road transport, shifts in oil and metal demand, electricity consumption, charging infrastructure rollouts, emissions trajectories, and more. Discussion Topics: - Near-term and long-term EV adoption trends by country and segment - The impact of recent policy changes on vehicle electrification - Uptake of battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and range-extender electric vehicles - Battery chemistries and costs, and the demand and supply of key materials - Charging infrastructure requirements, deployment trends and outlook - Highlights on the rising costs of public EV charging, the commercialization of solid-state batteries and the uses of ethanol across different modes of transport Speakers Aleksandra O'Donovan Head of Electrified Transport BloombergNEF Aleksandra O'Donovan is Head of Electrified Transport at BloombergNEF. She is responsible for the coverage of the global electrified transport markets, and specializes in the analysis of the electric vehicles sales trends, infrastructure development and changing policy environment. Aleksandra has been with BloombergNEF since 2008, and prior to her role in the Advanced Transport team she has lead research focused on global biomass-to-power, waste-to-energy and biofuels markets. Aleksandra finished her Master's degree in Sustainable Technologies at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She also holds a BSc in Environmental Protection and Management from the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Andrew Grant Intelligent Mobility BloombergNEF Andrew Grant leads BloombergNEF's global Intelligent Mobility research team, which produces research, datasets and long-term outlooks on shared mobility services and autonomous vehicles. Andrew is also an author and the lead modeler of BNEF's annual 'Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook'. Based in London, U.K., Andrew holds MSc Applied Economics and Bachelor of Business Science in Economics degrees from the University of Cape Town. Charging Infrastructure BloombergNEF Ryan leads Charging Infrastructure research at BloombergNEF. He covers the technology, policy and economic factors shaping the transport sector. Within the team Ryan authors research on the status of the industry, financial analysis and forecasts. He regularly contributes to Bloomberg's Hyperdrive column with opinions and analysis from his research. Prior to joining BloombergNEF Ryan worked at Jaguar Land Rover for five years working on their electrification and mobility strategies. Ryan holds a master's degree in Automotive Technology from the University of Warwick and a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Liverpool.
