Islamabad – A delegation from the Polio Oversight Board (POB), led by Dr. Chris Elias of the Gates Foundation, met with Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday to discuss Pakistan’s polio eradication efforts.
The minister reaffirmed the government’s commitment to eliminating polio, emphasizing cross-border coordination with Afghanistan and targeted campaigns for mobile populations. He praised health workers’ dedication, calling their sacrifices a symbol of national resolve. The delegation, which includes senior representatives from WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International, and KS Relief, commended Pakistan’s progress and pledged continued support. The visit follows the delegation’s stop in Afghanistan and includes planned meetings with the Prime Minister and top officials.
In the last 13 days, coalition forces have discovered 33 weapons caches throughout Afghanistan, said Maj. Steve Wollman, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan spokesman, today.
“Local officials and security forces aided in the discovery of three of the caches, and local citizens assisted with the discovery of nine (caches),” Wollman said during a press conference in the country’s capital of Kabul.
He said the caches included 41 mortar rounds, 144 recoilless rifle rounds, and eight rocket-propelled grenade rounds in Uruzgan province, as well as 56 mortar rounds, 82 tank rounds and 100 RPG rounds found in Helmand province.
“A citizen in Paktika Province reported a cache site that contained a ZPU antiaircraft weapon, 20 mines, five machine guns, 10 RPG rounds, and thousands of rounds of small-arms ammunition,” Wollman said.
Coalition forces secured the weapons for destruction or redistribution to the Afghan National Army.
Also, Wollman reported on coalition efforts to assist citizens affected by harsh winter conditions.
That help included medical-assistance visits from the Parwan provincial reconstruction team to the Camp Chamin-e Barbak and Camp Huzuri displaced- persons camps near Kabul to deliver much needed winter clothing and medicine to more than 2,500 people.
“Two days ago, a coalition C-130 transport plane flew from Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, to airdrop supplies to the village of Shinkay in the Zabul province,” Wollman said. “The plane dropped eight packages of humanitarian assistance supplies to a coalition civil affairs team waiting on the ground below.”
The packages, he said, contained 3,000 kilograms of beans, 3,000 kilograms of rice and 400 blankets. Village elders identified the neediest families in the village to receive the items.
Coalition members also assisted motorists by rendering medical attention; providing food, fuel and warming tents; and by clearing a snow-covered stretch of the Jalalabad roadway.
Many motorists were also helped as they encountered icy conditions on the road between Qalat and Ghazni.
“Two days ago, coalition forces evacuated 27 motorists to hospitals on Bagram Airfield after a multi-vehicle accident on Kabul road,” he said.
“These efforts show the commitment of the Coalition to assist the Afghan people as they continue to secure a peaceful future,” Wollman noted.
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The Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team is contesting the Esports World Cup (EWC) again in Riyadh. From 8 to 11 July, the world’s elite in sim racing, the digital motorsport, will go head to head for the third consecutive year.
The Porsche factory team competed in the online preliminary rounds from their new HQ in Cologne. At the state-of-the-art Porsche Esports Performance Center, they qualified for the finals in Saudi Arabia by finishing top in the teams’ standings. The “R1” series is the highest-ranking championship in sim racing. At the Esports World Cup, the competitors will do battle for a prize pool of 500,000 dollars in their discipline.
Two new faces in the Porsche team
“The EWC is the absolute highlight of the season for us,” said Nina Braack, Manager Esports at Porsche Motorsport. “The EWC is the equivalent of the FIFA World Cup among professional esports tournaments – it’s the biggest event there is. So, we have been making sure we are thoroughly prepared once again. We head to Riyadh as championship leaders in R1, which is why we are confident that we are in with a very good chance.”
The sim racing series was held in the Saudi capital for the first time in 2023. Porsche won the title in the teams’ championship with the then new factory team. They finished in fifth place last year.
Luke Pennington, performance engineer of the Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team: “I’m happy with our performance in the preliminaries. Riyadh will be tough: The many practice sessions and races on the road to the showdown on Friday are spread across four days. That requires peak mental performances in particular. The team is slightly different from last year: In Jordan Caruso we have a new driver on board. Also, it isn’t my first EWC appearance, but it is my first as part of the Porsche team.”
Luke Pennington
Porsche Coanda Esports Racing Team: driver line-up
Jordan Caruso, 24 (AUS) Charlie Collins, 20 (GB) Joshua Rogers, 25 (AUS) Dayne Warren, 25 (AUS)
The road to the title
In the online races held between March and June, the Porsche team picked up the most points. This means they have qualified for the EWC finals, as has Formula 1 star Max Verstappen’s second-placed BMW Team Redline.
Two teams missed out on a ticket for Riyadh in the preliminaries. Six other teams still have the chance to make it to the final in Riyadh – but only one of them will succeed.
The winner of the R1 championship will be decided in “Finalist Mode”: Three teams of four drivers will contest several races. The first team to win a race after having picked up at least 250 points wins the title.
Esports highlight of the year
With 25 different esports competitions in seven weeks, the EWC is the biggest spectator event of its kind. The event gets underway on 7 July and ends on 24 August. It will be held at an event center covering around 60,000 square metres; the center comprises several esports arenas. Across all disciplines, the total prize fund comes in at more than 70 million US dollars – an EWC record.
Live broadcast
Fans and motorsport enthusiasts can watch the R1 races live on Porsche’s official Twitch channel.
Brief overview: R1
The unofficial sim racing premier class is contested on the “Rennsport” platform.
The cars fielded are based on GT3 regulations, including the 911 GT3 R.
Like in real-life racing, a Balance of Performance ensures a level playing field.
12 teams consisting of 4 drivers each compete in a team championship.
The drivers qualify for the final live event at the EWC through the online events.
500,000 US dollars in prize money up for grabs in the R1 championship.
The Porsche Motorsport Hub offers more information about the series.
Esports, sim racing and Porsche
Esports involve competitive gaming with video games. This also includes simulated racing, or sim racing. In professional sim racing, drivers use hardware adopted from real race cars. For example, steering wheels and pedals require the same operating force. The software typically simulates real racetracks and vehicles. Competitors race against each other either online or on a local network. Many major esports championships hold online qualifiers but host their finals on-site with a live audience. Esports are particularly popular in Asia and the USA. Vice President of Porsche Motorsport Thomas Laudenbach: “Whether digital or real, motorsport is in our blood. But we’re not doing it just for the fun of it. Esports help us connect with a young, tech-savvy audience. Plus, simulations are playing a bigger and bigger role – whether it’s preparing for a race or developing our race and road cars.”
KARIYA, Japan (July.4, 2025)－DENSO CORPORATION announced that it has acquired Axia Vegetable Seeds, a vegetable seed breeding company headquartered in the Netherlands and focused on developing high-quality tomato seeds for greenhouses globally. The acquisition marks a step forward in DENSO’s strategic expansion into the AgriTech sector.
In recent years, food shortages caused by climate change and population growth have become global challenges, and the companies have recognized the growing need to develop stable agricultural production capable of reliably producing and supplying food to meet demand.
By integrating its industrial technologies developed for automobiles with the specialized cultivation expertise of various partners, DENSO accelerates the development of innovative cultivation methods, such as data-driven cultivation.
Founded in the heart of the Dutch greenhouse industry, Axia Vegetable Seeds develops a wide range of high-performing tomato seeds known for their high disease resistance, good taste, quality and high yield, and distributes them on a global scale .
Moving forward, DENSO and Axia Vegetable Seeds will collaborate to combine industrial technology with seed development to create high-quality seeds suitable for automated farming approaches and climate adaptation. Additionally, by leveraging DENSO’s image recognition and AI technologies, the two companies aim to shorten the development period of new seeds and bring higher value-added seeds to market more quickly.
Through these initiatives, the companies will build cultivation solutions that enable stable and planned production from seed to harvest, meet producers’ diverse needs, help workforces to prioritize high-value work, and aim to achieve sustainable agriculture worldwide.
DENSO CORPORATION Food Value Chain Business Development Division Executive Officer Yasushi Mukai “We are delighted to welcome Axia Vegetable Seeds, with its outstanding development capabilities and know-how in the seed industry, as a member of the DENSO Group. By integrating the technologies and expertise of both the DENSO Group and Axia, we will create new value and realize our vision of providing safe and delicious food anytime, anywhere, and for everyone.”
AXIA VEGETABLE SEEDS CEO & COO Alois van Vliet & Sandor van Vliet “Joining DENSO allows us to accelerate our mission of delivering the best quality tomato seeds globally boosted by exciting opportunities with controlled environment automation and AI technologies. Together with our talented employees and partners, we continue to bring transformative innovations to growers worldwide – making agriculture smarter, more sustainable, and more productive. Our mission is to become the world leader in tomato seeds for the greenhouse industry. We are grateful for our shareholders such as Temasek, Kleiner Perkins, WP Global Partners, and other shareholders.”
ISLAMABAD – Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what’s known as a “widowmaker” heart attack, so-called because of the low odds of survival. But this can be avoided if someone is given a stent to open up the narrowed LMCA, or heart bypass surgery, according to Medical Xpress. However, research published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions reveals how doctors may be missing up to 28% of people with LMCA disease because current clinical guidelines on how to interpret test results may need to be updated.
When testing for LMCA disease, doctors typically look for the same blood pressure reduction in both branches of the left main coronary artery. But the new study results overturn this approach—by showing one branch often has lower blood pressure than the other.
This knowledge could in future help doctors better judge whether people have LMCA disease and could benefit from urgent treatment.
Professor Divaka Perera, professor of cardiology at King’s, said, “These findings are so important because they will guide doctors to accurately interpret seemingly conflicting test results when assessing the LMCA. That means doctors can correctly diagnose LMCA disease, and consider a stent or bypass surgery, or carry out further investigations of the LMCA, rather than ignoring a potentially important disease in a major artery of the heart.”
The left main coronary artery is the heart’s largest and most critical artery, supplying most of the heart muscle with blood. If the artery becomes substantially narrowed—as seen in people with LMCA disease—this can result in a major heart attack.
Doctors typically diagnose LMCA disease using a thin wire inserted through the wrist and guided to the heart. They are searching for reduced blood pressure in the two branches leading from the LMCA, which indicate it has been significantly narrowed by a build-up of cholesterol.
But doctors follow guidelines which suggest a blood pressure score below 0.8 is significant and requires immediate treatment.
So, when one branch of the LMCA produces a safer score above 0.8—even if the other does not—doctors following the guidance might rule out LMCA disease.
The researchers say the new findings suggest guidelines should perhaps be updated, so that doctors do not look for the same blood pressure reduction above 0.8 in both branches—the left anterior descending (LAD) artery and the left circumflex artery.
Since the debut of the Mirrored Force Resonance First Edition in 2022, which was an update of the revolutionary 2016 Armin Strom Mirrored Force Resonance, the brand has excited us with the Manufacture Editions in green and blue, and now introduces the Mirrored Force Resonance Ice Blue. This fresh interpretation combines the technical mastery of its predecessors with a dial that truly catches the eye and has a very soothing effect.
As we’re here talking about a new edition of a well-known watch, we’re not going to remake the entire technical explanation, as groundbreaking as it can be. However, if you want to understand how Armin Strom managed to create a watch truly capable of using the benefits of the resonance phenomenon, I invite you to take a look at one of these two videos, here and here. Believe me when I say that it’s absolutely fascinating.
Now on to the new Mirrored Force Resonance Ice Blue. The familiar 43mm stainless steel case measures 11.55mm in thickness and features a comfortable lug-to-lug length of 49.60mm, striking a nice balance between presence and wrist-friendliness. The case’s polished surfaces complement the anti-reflective sapphire crystals front and back, offering an unobstructed view of the watch’s remarkable movement and its resonance mechanism in action. Water resistance is a modest but practical 30m.
The Ice Blue dial features a sunray guilloché pattern to adorn the off-centred time display, a decoration introduced for the first time in the Mirrored Force Resonance line. This icy blue dial plays beautifully with light, catching and reflecting it in dynamic ways. The black circular satin-brushed chapter ring grounds the design, while polished and facetted rhodium-plated indices and hands, crafted in-house, provide a sharp contrast for excellent legibility.
The dial’s left side displays the brand’s signature resonance mechanism: two balances oscillating in opposite directions, linked by Armin Strom’s patented resonance clutch spring. Two seconds counters add symmetry and provide a visual confirmation of the precise synchronisation that defines resonance technology, with the pusher at 2 o’clock used to synchronise them in case it’s needed.
The watch is powered by the Manufacture Calibre ARF21, a hand-wound movement with two independent regulating systems, connected via the clutch spring, that significantly improve chronometric stability and precision. The movement operates at a frequency of 25,200 vibrations per hour, offers a 48-hour power reserve, and is meticulously finished with traditional haute horlogerie techniques, including polished bevels, Geneva stripes, perlage, and black-polished screws, which are visible through the sapphire caseback.
The watch is worn on a dark blue Alcantara strap with white stitching, adding a sporty, elegant touch, and is closed with a classic stainless steel pin buckle. Limited to 15 pieces, the Mirrored Force Resonance Ice Blue is priced at CHF 78,000. For more information, please consult arminstrom.com.
PRAGUE, July 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Premium enjoyment and great value do not have to be a trade-off. From July 4 to 21, 2025, METZ is offering exclusive deals on a select range of advanced 4K and QLED smart TVs — available only on ALZA in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.
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Tito Rabat will return to the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship grid at Donington Park as he stands in for Tarran Mackenzie at the PETRONAS MIE Racing Honda team. Rabat spent the first five rounds with the Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team outfit but left by mutual consent after the Czech Round but will now be back on the WorldSBK grid at the Prosecco DOC UK Round for MIE Honda, the fourth manufacturer he’s ridden for in the Championship. Zaqhwan Zaidi (PETRONAS MIE Honda Racing Team) will also miss the round, with Portuguese rider Ivo Lopes standing in for the Malaysian.
Rabat’s return comes after Mackenzie left MIE Honda after a season and a half, where his best result was ninth in the Tissot Superpole Race in a wet Assen, while it was also his best weekend with the team in total with three points-scoring results. He also raced for the team in WorldSSP and famously took their first win at Most in a dramatic mixed conditions outing. However, ahead of Donington, the team announced that they would part ways with Mackenzie.
This freed up a seat and it will be taken by 2014 Moto2 World Champion Rabat. The #53 joined WorldSBK in 2021 with the Barni Racing Team although left the team before the end of the campaign. He then returned in the same season with the Kawasaki Puccetti Racing, where he raced on and off between 2021 and 2023, before taking a full-time ride with the team in 2024. In 2025, he moved to the Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team as they expanded to a two-rider line-up, joining rookie Bahattin Sofuoglu. However, after Most, the team and Rabat announced their split. Rabat missed the Emilia-Romagna Round at Misano but will be back on the grid with the PETRONAS MIE Honda Racing Team at the UK Round at Donington Park, filling in for Mackenzie.
Lopes will also be on track with the team as he stands in for Malaysian rider Zaidi. The #21 will race at Motegi in the Asian championship, with Portuguese rider Lopes filling in for him. Lopes tested for the team at Misano and has raced for them before on several occasions throughout 2024, at Portimao, Magny-Cours, Cremona, Estoril and Jerez, but Donington will be a new challenge for Lopes.
Discussing his move to MIE Honda for Donington, Rabat said: “After sitting out the Misano round, I’m definitely going into the Donington round highly motivated to do well. This will be the first time that I’ll be riding the Honda Superbike and working with the team, without any preparation or test time, so it won’t be easy of course. But it is a great opportunity and I’ll be doing my best to make the most of it. The goal will be to try and improve as much as we can session by session; we’ll see what we can do. I want to thank the PETRONAS MIE Racing Honda Team for the opportunity and hope I’m up to the task!”
Lopes said of his return to the team: “First of all, a big thanks to the team for giving me another opportunity to compete in the World Championship. As for Donington, I don’t know the track at all, so we need to understand it as quickly as possible. The goal is to interpret the track effectively, help the team as much as I can and do as well as I can. I know it will be tough as I don’t know the circuit but I’m ready to work hard; we’ll see what I can do.”
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From the glow of blue LEDs to the ‘miracle’ of IVF, the Nobel Prize celebrates individuals whose discoveries have changed the world. These six innovations and discoveries not only improve our daily lives, but save them and help create new ones.
At a glance
The discovery of blood groups enabled safe transfusions
IVF helped millions struggling with infertility
The invention of lithium-ion batteries transformed energy storage
Blue LEDs led to long-lasting, eco-friendly white light.
Synthetic indigo dye made affordable denim possible
The CCD sensor sparked the digital photography era
Enabling safe blood transfusions
Close up of A positive blood in bag. Credit: ER Productions Limited/Getty Images
It is likely you know someone who has donated or received blood. However, life-saving blood transfusions were once so unpredictable, that using them risked triggering a potentially fatal reaction.
This risk was reduced once Karl Landsteiner discovered the existence of human blood groups. He tested blood samples to see whether one person’s red blood cells clumped together when mixed with blood serum from another’s. His experiments showed that adverse reactions occurred when a recipient possessed natural antibodies to a donor’s blood cells. In these cases, he found that the red blood cells from the donated blood began to clump, or agglutinate.
In the recipient these agglutinated red cells could clog blood vessels and stop the circulation of the blood to various parts of the body, or crack open, leaking toxic contents out in the body, which could eventually be fatal.
From his research, Landsteiner classified people and their blood into groups.
Today, blood transfusions are routinely used when dealing with trauma or major surgery, ensuring that patients receive blood that matches their own to reduce the risk of life-threatening reactions caused by incompatible blood.
Read more about blood transfusions and Karl Landsteiner
Making affordable denim possible
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Do you have a favourite pair of jeans? Adolf von Baeyer played a role in putting affordable denim in millions of wardrobes, by helping to make it possible to produce indigo’s distinctive blue colour industrially instead of extracting dye from the indigo plant.
It took almost two decades for Baeyer to progress from the approximate structure of indigo to calculating its precise chemical formula, but within that time he already had enough information to produce the dye synthetically in three ways from different sets of raw materials rich in carbon atoms. In 1897 the first synthetic indigo went on sale, prompting a boom.
It is estimated that more than 4.5 billion pairs of jeans are sold worldwide every year, and most of them are dyed with synthetic indigo.
Inventing a sensor for capturing images electronically
The CCD image sensor is at the heart of a solid state video camera. A flat chip of oxidized silicon covered with a complicated array of metal electrodes is the image sensor at the heart of the solid state video camera built by Bell Lab engineers. Photo: Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs
From preserving precious family moments to documenting dinners, we take more photos now than ever before.
Willard Boyle and George Smith were colleagues at the famous Bell Laboratories outside New York, and made it possible to capture images electronically. They sketched an image sensor based on Albert Einstein’s photoelectric effect – in which arrays of photocells would emit electrons in amounts proportional to the intensity of incoming light – during a brain-storming session for a new type of information storage.
The charge-coupled device (CCD) they invented gave rise to an explosion in digital imaging. In addition to being used in digital cameras, CCDs play a crucial role for the scientific world, including in medicine and astronomy. Without CCDs we would not have seen the astonishing images of space taken by the Hubble space telescope.
Creating white light for energy-efficient lamps
The blue LED: an energy- efficient, environmentally-friendly light source Photo: Public domain
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) illuminate everything from Christmas trees to football stadiums, but long-lasting, energy efficient white LED lamps would not be possible without the work of three laureates.
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright blue light beams from their semi-conductors in the early 1990s, adding to existing red and green diode technology, to create a fundamental transformation of lighting technology.
LEDs are far more energy-efficient than older light sources, and therefore have much lower environmental impact. They use at least 75% less energy and last around 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs. With 15% of global power consumption and 5% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions created by electricity for lighting, a global shift to energy efficient bulbs such as LEDs is urgently needed, and could slash these emissions by more than one third.
Enabling a rechargeable world
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Electric vehicles are considered to be the key technology to decarbonise road transport, which is responsible for one-sixth of emissions. Many electric vehicles rely on lithium-ion batteries, which are also used to power small portable electronic devices like phones, and to store energy from solar and wind power, making a fossil fuel-free society a possibility.
The foundation of the lithium-ion battery was laid during the oil crisis in the 1970s. Stanley Whittingham created a two-volt battery with great potential, but it was too explosive to be viable. John Goodenough refined the materials used to make a breakthrough that would lead to more powerful batteries, helping Akira Yoshino to create the first commercially viable lithium-ion battery in 1985.
Lightweight, hardwearing lithium-ion batteries can be charged hundreds of times without their performance deteriorating, and have revolutionised our lives since they first entered the market in 1991, paving the way for a wireless, fossil fuel-free society.
Developing a treatment for infertility
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In the 1950s, Robert Edwards came up with the radical idea of helping childless couples to conceive by fertilising the mothers’ eggs outside the body and then replacing them in the womb.
He first demonstrated human in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 1969, but the fertilised eggs never underwent more than a single cell division. He teamed up with gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe, who worked out how to remove suitable eggs directly from women’s ovaries to overcome this challenge, and the nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy. Together, they also overcame some societal resistance to their research. Their resilience and determination led to the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first ‘test tube baby’, in 1978.
Worldwide, there are over 500,000 IVF deliveries every year. IVF has become a familiar and, for many, easily-accessible option to turn to when problems are encountered in conceiving a child.
WBC light heavyweight champion David Benavidez will defend his title against Britain’s Anthony Yarde in November, Saudi boxing officials announced on July 3.
Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority and president of the Saudi Boxing Federation, confirmed the fight as part of Riyadh Season. The exact date and venue are yet to be finalised.
The bout will be Benavidez’s first since he was promoted to full champion status.
The 28-year-old previously held the interim belt, which he captured with a unanimous decision win over Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June 2024. He followed up with a victory against David Morrell in February, securing his position as the division’s leading contender.
Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) was elevated to champion earlier this year after former titleholder Dmitry Bivol opted for a trilogy bout against Artur Beterbiev rather than defend against the interim titleholder.
Long linked to a clash with Canelo Alvarez at super middleweight, Benavidez moved up in weight after failing to secure the fight.
His opponent, Anthony Yarde (27-3, 24 KOs), will be making his third attempt at a world title. The London-born fighter fell short in his first title shot against Sergey Kovalev in 2019 and again in 2023, when he was stopped by Beterbiev in a high-profile bout for the WBC, IBF and WBO titles.
Yarde returned to winning form in April with a points win over Lyndon Arthur on the undercard of Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn. He’ll now seek a breakthrough moment against one of the division’s most powerful and technically gifted champions.
The November contest adds another high-profile name to Riyadh Season, which has emerged as a key player in boxing’s global calendar. Further details on the card are expected in the coming weeks.
