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Climate change is one of the toughest opponents facing any athlete, warns Brazilian soccer player Tamires Dias, one of around 40 elite sportsmen and women involved in the launch of a new global campaign that will feature at next month’s COP30 summit in her country. Dias, who played in two Women’s World Cups, has been joined by the likes of Brazilian tennis player Beatriz Haddad Maia, surfer Maya Gabeira, Romanian Olympic swimmer David Popovici and former England soccer player Raheem Sterling to support Adapt2Win. With climate change already impacting elite sport, the global multimedia campaign launched on Monday and backed by the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, is urging governments to prioritise investment in climate adaptation ahead of COP30. Dias, 38, describes the challenges of playing soccer in Brazil, where extreme heat and damaging rains pose challenges, and says adapting to climate change is no longer optional. “In sport, we learn to adapt every day — to new teams, new tactics, new opponents. But...

De grootste werf in Zuid-Korea heeft investeringen in Amerika toegezegd en Japan zal deze week naar verwachting met soortgelijke beloftes komen. 

The IBM Digital Asset Haven, developed with Dfns, aims to offer banks, governments and enterprises a full-stack platform for token custody, governance and compliance.

A growing demand for stablecoin payments and tokenized real-world assets is creating more institutional interest in blockchain-based services, according to IBM. Technology giant IBM launched a cryptocurrency platform for US institutions, marking one of the company’s strongest pushes yet into digital assets and blockchain infrastructure. IBM’s platform will offer US businesses and governments crypto custody and payment services by the end of the year, aiming to simplify the integration of digital assets into the existing financial infrastructure. The new platform, called the “Digital Asset Haven,” will enable institutions to directly access onchain yield from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols across 40 public blockchain networks. It will also help meet the complex token compliance needs of institutions operating under the same platform. Read more

$150 billion was added to the market cap of all cryptocurrencies over the weekend—and it looks like the rally isn't slowing down.

Corporate scale has become an innovation liability as bureaucracy stalls retail payment evolution. Fintech partnerships offer the only escape from irrelevance. Opinion by: Vitaliy Shtyrkin, chief product officer at B2BINPAY For years, large retailers invested heavily in their own fintech divisions, convinced they could develop payment solutions internally, overlook smaller players and innovate independently — and, for a while, they succeeded.  Today, however, despite boasting vast resources and a global reach, corporations are realizing that money no longer guarantees innovation. Read more

The health tech firm’s raise, backed by Kraken and Exodus, could bring proceeds to $216 million as it targets $1 billion in annual revenue and BTC holdings.

Alle Nederlandse restaurants van pasta- en pizzaketen Vapiano zijn sinds zondag gesloten. ‘Wij vinden het oprecht jammer dat wij u niet meer mogen verwelkomen’, schrijft de keten in een bericht. Vapiano heeft restaurants in Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Den Haag en Utrecht.

Within the next seven to ten days, Ukraine and European leaders will prepare a short plan to establish a ceasefire.

Wereldwijd ontsnapt het sterke broeikasgas methaan uit afvalbergen. Dat kan beter worden afgevangen en omgezet in groene energie.

Ruim de helft (53 procent) van de dertigers zegt weleens minder te presteren op het werk door relatieproblemen. Dat laat nieuw onderzoek zien. Een scheiding of break-up kan zelfs voor uitval zorgen. Het zijn dus de werkgevers die de rekening gepresenteerd krijgen van onze privéproblemen. Hoe eerlijk is dat of kunnen bedrijven niet anders in deze tijd?

Во время атак на Сумскую область российские оккупанты начали применять "Шахеды" с подвешенными на них противотанковыми минами.

The government on Monday hailed the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority’s (Nepra) recent decision to slash K-Electric’s multi-year tariff, saying it will reduce the “additional burden on taxpayers” and that the move was not against the interests of Karachi’s power consumers. Last week, Nepra reduced KE’s multi-year tariff for the fiscal year 2023-24 by Rs7.6 per unit, from Rs39.97 to Rs32.37. KE warned that the move will have “far-reaching consequences for its stakeholders, including consumers”. Shares of KE, Pakistan’s only privatised and foreign-owned electricity utility, plunged on the stock exchange following the tariff cut, as investors sold heavily. According to a Dawn report, KE’s foreign owners are threatening to take the government to an international litigation forum. Analysts have warned that the tariff revision and regulatory uncertainty could hurt the company’s finances. In a subsequent statement today, the Ministry of Energy’s Power Division termed those opinions a “malicious campaign”....

The move positions the company to scale its regulated platform across securities, real estate and digital assets as tokenization gains mainstream momentum.

A "cheap" valuation coupled with a tweet from a well-followed investor and a firming in the price of bitcoin set off the fireworks in the stock.

Никто точно не знает, что сделает Дональд Трамп в ближайшее время, но точно можно предсказать одно: он преподнесет всем немало сюрпризов, уверен политолог Владимир Фесенко. И очень многое будет зависеть от его ближайшей встречи с Си Цзиньпином.

As investors exit gold for digital assets, Bitcoin could be the next big winner — possibly crossing the $200,000 barrier. After a significant rally that pushed gold prices above $4,300 per ounce, the metal reached a historic milestone driven by strong safe-haven demand. By October 2025, the market began experiencing profit-taking. Gold prices fell by more than 2% on Oct. 17, 2025, immediately after reaching the milestone. At the time of writing, spot gold was trading at around $4,023 per ounce: an 8.1% decline from the all-time high of $4,378.69. Read more

Украинский журналист Дмитрий Гордон поделился несколькими личными деталями о своей семье. Однако он признал, что из-за безопасности вынужден скрывать большинство информации.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday met with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, where the two discussed the country’s political landscape, PPP’s media cell said. The meeting comes amid political turmoil in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) after 10 legislators — all elected on PTI tickets in the July 2021 general elections — announced on Sunday that they were joining the PPP, which has been eyeing the premier’s slot in the region. This has significantly increased the likelihood of the PPP becoming the ruling party. In a post on X today, the PPP said that Bilawal met with the JUI-F chief at his residence in Islamabad today, where the two “discussed the country’s political landscape”. The PPP chairman was accompanied by PPP leaders Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, Humayun Khan and Jamil Soomro, while JUI-F’s Mualana Asad Mahmood attended the meeting as well. Separately, state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported that the two leaders “exchanged views on national issues and othe...

Новый Alpine A390 выходит на европейский рынок. Спортивный электрокроссовер от Renault доступен в версиях мощностью до 470 сил с запасом хода до 555 км.