Fans stand at attention for the national anthem during the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 match between Pakistan and India at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on February 23, 2025. — AFP
KARACHI: The tickets for the highly anticipated ACC Men’s T20 Asia Cup 2025 blockbuster clash between fierce rivals Pakistan and India are yet to be completely sold out with just hours remaining in its commencement, international media reported on Sunday.
According to a report, several tickets for three stands and one hospitality section of the Dubai International Cricket Stadium were available until Sunday morning on the continental tournament’s official ticketing website.
The price of tickets, still unsold, ranges from $205 to $1,645, including the premium stand, the east and west pavilion stands and numerous hospitality boxes.
Notably, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has yet to issue an official statement on the unsold tickets, and after being approached by the news outlet, said that it will release the ticket sale figures only when the blockbuster contest gets underway.
Meanwhile, local fans blamed the scorching heat in the Gulf region for the unusually slow sale of the Pakistan-India tickets, which normally get sold out in hours if not minutes.
“September is one of the hottest months in this part of the world, with high temperatures and extreme humidity, making it difficult to be outdoors even in the evenings,” Shahid Khan, a Dubai resident, told the news outlet.
“While players may get paid to play in this weather, fans have to spend large amounts of money to purchase tickets. Why would they do that to suffer in the heat?”
For the unversed, the upcoming fixture will be the 14th meeting between Pakistan and India in T20Is. The 2016 champions dominate the head-to-head record, winning 10 out of 13 matches.
Their most recent meeting came during the 2024 T20 World Cup in New York, where Rohit Sharma’s men edged past Babar Azam’s side in a low-scoring thriller.
What if your old bottle of cooking oil could help save the planet and your smartphone? That’s the big idea behind a groundbreaking discovery by researchers in Finland. Scientists from the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyväskylä have found that you can recover silver from electronic waste using common kitchen ingredients like vegetable oil and hydrogen peroxide. This sustainable, scalable method published in the Chemical Engineering Journal could change how we mine precious metals from our growing piles of electronic junk.
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Scientists have discovered a new method of silver extraction from electronics by using cooking oil.
Here’s how it works. Fatty acids found in oils like sunflower or olive oil are mixed with hydrogen peroxide. When heated slightly, this combo safely dissolves silver from old circuit boards, wires or keyboard connectors. Then, using ethyl acetate, a far less toxic alternative to industrial solvents, researchers pull out the silver in a solid form. Unlike traditional methods that rely on harsh acids or cyanide-based solutions, this technique avoids toxic runoff and air pollution. Think of it as salad dressing meets science lab, without the environmental mess.
Silver powers the devices you use every day, such as phones, solar panels, electric vehicles and even medical tech. But less than 20% of it gets recycled. As demand rises and natural resources shrink, finding clean ways to reclaim silver isn’t just smart, it’s necessary. Silver prices have surged sixfold in the last 25 years. At the same time, supply has lagged. That makes e-waste a goldmine, literally, for anyone who can unlock its hidden metals without poisoning the environment.
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Fatty acids found in cooking oil can stabilize silver ions for easier extraction.
To figure out exactly how this all works, researchers used advanced computer models to study how fatty acids interact with silver ions. The process not only stabilizes the silver but also allows for easy recovery using light and simple solvents. Better still, the ingredients can be reused and there’s no chemical waste or massive cost. And it’s highly selective. The method targets silver while leaving other metals behind, a major step forward in urban mining. In testing, even silver-coated keyboard connectors were cleanly processed into pure elemental silver powder using this system.
Indian labourers sift through a heap of pre-owned mobile phones in an electronic waste workshop on December 5, 2023 in New Delhi, India.
This research brings us closer to safe, at-home or small-scale recycling kits that could recover silver from old gadgets. Recyclers and manufacturers could adopt this method to reduce chemical waste and operating costs, while protecting workers and the environment. This method supports a future where nothing goes to waste. It keeps valuable materials in use, cutting down the need for mining and pollution. Silver is vital for making many of the tech items we use every day. Reusing it responsibly means cleaner energy at a lower cost and less reliance on mined resources.
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We’ve long known that waste is a problem. Now, it might also be the solution. By turning everyday ingredients into powerful recycling tools, scientists are showing us what’s possible when chemistry and sustainability meet. The process is still being refined, but the promise is clear: a greener future where reclaiming valuable metals doesn’t cost the earth, or our health.
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According to the Met. office, moist currents of moderate intensity from the Arabian Sea are penetrating into the upper parts of the country.
A westerly wave is likely to approach the upper parts from the 15th (evening/night) and may persist till 19th September.
Under the influence of these meteorological conditions, the following is predicted for different regions.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa:
Rain-wind/thunderstorm is expected in Dir, Chitral, Swat, Kohistan, Shangla, Battagram, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Buner, Malakand, Bajaur, Mohmand, Kohat, Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, Hangu, Karak and Waziristan from 16th to 19th September with occasional gaps.
Kashmir/ Gilgit-Baltistan:
Scattered rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Kashmir (Neelum valley, Muzaffarabad, Rawalakot, Poonch, Hattian, Bagh, Haveli, Sudhanoti, Kotli, Bhimber, Mirpur) from 15th (evening/night) to 19th September with occasional gaps. Isolated heavyfall is expected on 16th & 18th September. While isolated rain-wind/thunderstorm is expected in Gilgit-Baltistan (Diamir, Astore, Ghizer, Skardu, Hunza, Gilgit, Ghanche, Shigar) from 16th to 19th September.
Punjab/Islamabad:
Rain-wind/thundershower is expected in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree, Galliyat, Attock, Chakwal and Jhelum from 16th to 19th September with occasional gaps, while in Mandi Bahauddin, Gujrat, Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Wazirabad, Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Narowal Mianwali, Khushab, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh and Faisalabad on 18th & 19th September. Isolated heavy fall is also expected during the period.
Sindh:
Mainly dry weather is expected in most parts of the province, while partly cloudy in coastal areas.
Balochistan:
Mainly dry weather is expected in most parts of the province.
Possible Impacts and advises:
Windstorm, Hailstorm, and lightning may damage weak structures like roof/wall of Kacha houses, electric poles, billboards, vehicles and solar panels etc during the forecast period.
Possibility of landslides in vulnerable hilly areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Murree, Galliyat and Kashmir during the forecast period.
Heavy rainfall may increase flows in local nullahs/streams of Dir, Swat, Shangla, Buner, Kohistan, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Charsadda, Nowshera, Swabi, Mardan, Murree, Galliyat, Islamabad/Rawalpindi, and Kashmir on 18th & 19th September.
Public, travelers/tourists are advised to avoid unusual exposure to vulnerable areas and keep updated about latest weather conditions.
I’ve just hopped on avideo call with the CEO of Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman-backed longevity company, when I mention it’s quite hot.
Joe Betts-LaCroix takes my passing comment as a cue to muse on the wonders of air conditioning, and how energy and heat were once synonymous — until they weren’t.
As a multi-hyphenate scientist, entrepreneur, and once-inventor of the world’s smallest computer, Betts-LaCroix is excited by paradigm change.
At the helm of what is essentially Altman’s playground for experimenting with pushing the limits of the human lifespan, Betts-LaCroix is hoping to engineer the same shift that air conditioning brought to hot summer days for your brain and body. Ideally, one day, decouple aging from decline and disease.
Hoping is one thing, delivering is another.
Retro is set to start its first clinical trial since its launch in 2021, with an initial $180 million investment from Altman. Betts-LaCroix told Business Insider that by the end of 2025, Retro will have dosed its first trial patient with an experimental pill called RTR242.
It’s designed to help reverse Alzheimer’s by reviving autophagy. This cellular recycling process in our body — the same one that’s triggered by fasting — often goes haywire in old age, and is widely thought to have broad antiaging effects.
“There are old, misfolded, mutated, broken, undigestible proteins inside cells that build up over time,” Betts-LaCroix said. “The normal cellular recycling system gets messed up.”
In Australia, where it’s faster and easier to get Phase 1 safety trials off the ground, Retro has picked a clinical trial site, selected lab vendors, and expects its first participant to be enrolled toward the end of the year.
Meaningful results are needed to attract more investment for large-scale clinical trials. The company has been vocal about its goal to raise $1 billion in its Series A.
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If it’s successful, that cash would put Retro in the realm of longevity startups like the Jeff Bezos-backed Altos Labs, which is by far the most well-funded new name in Silicon Valley longevity biotech. Altos has raised more than $3 billion from big-name tech investors, including Yuri Milner, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale (via his investment firm 8VC), and the Arch Venture founder Robert Nelson.
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Retro Biosciences sits in a Silicon Valley suburb north of San Francisco.
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Betts-LaCroix assures me that Retro is in “hardcore preclinical mode.”
RTR242 is one of at least three big ideas the company is currently betting on to reverse aging. All of Retro’s big bets share the goal of taking some aspect of our biology “back to essentially a younger age,” Betts-LaCroix said.
Retro’s been vocal about its ultimate goal: to add 10 extra, healthy years to human lifespan. They’re not necessarily saying US life expectancy would ramp up to 88 from 78. Rather, they’re trying to create novel treatments that keep people feeling healthy, alert, and vibrant right until their very last days.
Aside from the Alzheimer’s drug, Retro is in the preclinical development stage for a treatment for blood diseases like leukemia, which involves making fresh blood stem cells for patients using their own cells as a starting point (RTR890), plus a stem cell-derived therapy for treating diseases of the central nervous system (RTR888).
The experimental memory pill works by clearing out “gunk in the cells” linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Betts-LaCroix said. If the pill works, it will restart stalled autophagy processes in the body, cleaning up damage, “especially in the brain cells,” he said.
In contrast, other new Alzheimer’s drugs, like Eisai’s Leqembi and Eli Lilly’s Kisunla, slow down cognitive decline by flushing out sticky amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of the disease.
“I tend to be more interested in therapeutics that reverse aging than ones that slow it down because the ‘slow it down’ thing just feels kind of like a weak sauce,” Betts-LaCroix said.
Old-school pharma approach vs. ChatGPT for aging
A scientist working on the bench at Retro Biosciences.
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There is serious tension in the longevity field: One strategy is to play it safe,going after one disease at a time and developing the kinds of drugs that pharmaceutical companies would consider acquiring, like RTR242.
Then, there’s the moonshot approach, aiming for a big paradigm shift. Betts-LaCroix hopes to straddle the divide.
“We have taste in the types of therapeutic programs that we find interesting,” he said, adding that they all aim to “reset some aspect of our biology back to essentially a younger age.”
The reset could be incremental, or it could be radical.
The physicist Peter Fedichev, who is not involved with Retro but founded a rivallongevity biotech company called Gero, said he hopes that what Retro may be tackling in stealth mode is a bit more ambitious than its small molecule for autophagy.
“I think they pretend to be careful,” Fedichev told Business Insider. “With all my respect, I hope that they are more radical on the inside. 10 years? We can get with lifestyle.”
Betts-LaCroix disagrees. He said 10 extra years is nothing to sneeze at.
“Curing cancer would add about three years to life expectancy, and curing heart disease about four,” he said in response. “Adding 10 years of healthy lifespan to the adult population will be an even greater impact — one of the greatest achievements in the history of healthcare.”
There are hints that, at Retro, perhaps a radical streak is still simmering under the surface. In August, Altman’s OpenAI published a blog post touting a custom “GPT‑4b micro,” a protein-designing AI that they developed in partnership with Retro.
The company said GPT-4b micro improved the expression of stem cell reprogramming markers 50-fold, when compared to results from natural reprogramming factors.
Cellular reprogramming is arguably the trendiest, most far-out longevity bid in Silicon Valley right now. Basically, researchers are trying to find better ways to reverse the aging of our cells and engineer new parts for old bodies.
If that kind of improvement is able to, one day, fuel better aging treatments, the shift could be huge. But, like a lot of promises in AI land, it’s still a big if, for now.
In the meantime, Retro is playing a more cautious game with its clinical trial.
Queen, seen here performing in 1975, recorded Bohemian Rhapsody the same year at Rockfield Studios near Monmouth
Fifty years ago the rock band Queen arrived at Rockfield Studios, the iconic recording venue in countryside just outside Monmouth.
The band had stayed there a year earlier, in 1974, but returned the following summer after the success of their song Killer Queen.
“They hadn’t been very financially well off in [1974], but when they came back in 1975, they were very famous and very well off,” said Kingsley Ward, co-founder of the studio.
During the later visit, Kingsley said the band had been staying at the studio for a week and “hadn’t done much”, something he mentioned to guitarist Brian May as they were playing frisbee outside.
May responded that frontman Freddie Mercury was in the house “writing something”.
Kingsley went back inside and sidled up to the piano where Mercury was practising – it was a new song with the working title Freddie’s Thing.
“I had no idea… but it was Bohemian Rhapsody,” he told BBC Radio Wales.
This week marks 50 years since recording was completed on the song – one of the most iconic of all time – in the Welsh countryside.
To celebrate, last night May and fellow band member Roger Taylor took to the stage with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the Last Night of the Proms Finale.
The song has also been a recent hit on social media, after a flash mob performance of the song by French pianist Julien Cohen and a group of 30 musicians he assembled brought a Parisian street to a standstill – since gaining more than 11 million likes on Instagram.
Olly Pearson, an electric guitarist from Wrexham, performed in the video, including an energetic take on May’s famous guitar solo.
“It was just so amazing – I don’t even have words for it,” Olly said of the experience.
Kingsley Ward co-founded the studios with his brother Charles in the 1960s
Rockfield is part of rock royalty, born in the 1960s after Kingsley and his brother Charles chose to go alone after being turned down for a recording opportunity by legendary producer and “fifth Beatle” George Martin.
As well as Queen, it is where Oasis have forged some of their biggest hits, and where the late Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, arrived in 1970 with his new band Black Sabbath.
“We were very loud and Rockfield allowed us the freedom,” Osbourne once said.
“No-one would allow us to play as loud as that. The roof tiles were rattling.”
Of all the musical memories made at Rockfield, Kingsley said hearing Mercury’s solo while recording Bohemian Rhapsody is one of his favourites.
“I remember that particular solo because it was so outstanding,” he said.
Even when Queen finished recording and left the studio, he had still not heard the song – with its range of styles including a ballad, operatic and hard rock components – in full.
“It was done [in the studio] in three sections, and when it left here I only ever heard the sections. They were never actually put together as a unit,” he said.
Kingsley said he first heard it in full on the radio when he was driving down the M4 motorway.
“I was amazed when I heard it. I thought it was fantastic,” he recalled.
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Electric guitarist Olly Pearson performed as part of the flash mob in Paris
Kingsley was also full of praise for the latest version of the song, performed in Paris, describing Olly’s solo as “fantastic”.
“He is brilliant,” he said.
For his part, Olly said he was proud to play a role in such a famous song, admitting he was nervous before the performance, but then “the adrenaline kicked in”.
Olly said his dream is to play in a “big band” at Wembley Stadium, possibly playing alongside music legend May.
Asked if he could help set such a meeting up, Kingsley said: “He’s such a nice person, I’m sure he’d be interested.”
Niall Horan is all smiles as he celebrates another trip around the sun.
The former One Direction heartthrob marked his 32nd birthday with his The Voice family, giving fans a sweet glimpse into the intimate celebration.
Taking to Instagram on Saturday, September 13, the official social media account for “ shared a carousel of snapshots from the bash, writing, “Our Irish charmer is one year older — let’s wish Niall Horan a very happy birthday! #TheVoice | @NBC and Peacock.”
The cover photos of the carousel featured a candid polaroid of the birthday boy wearing a white vest and pinstripe brown dress pants, holding a slice of cake in a plate in one hand and what looked like a drink in the other.
Other photos captured the Night Changes vocalist beaming as he posed with fellow judges Michael Bublé and Reba McEntire, clearly enjoying his big day.
In the background, a small table covered in black cloth was topped with a classic white cake, some treats, and disposable utensils.
Meanwhile the wall behind the table was adorned with golden foil curtains and black decorations.
Fans were thrilled to see the behind-the-scenes birthday content, flooding the comments with love and good wishes.
“OMG THANK YOU FOR THESE PHOTOS OH MY GOD [heart eyed emoji],” one fan gushed.
Another chimed in saying, “Happy 32nd to the man who ages like fine wine [flame and red heart emoji] These photos are bomb.”
“Aww, this photo carousel made our day,” a third added
Niall is an Irish singer-songwriter, who rose to prominence as a member of One Direction, formed in 2010 on the singing competition The X Factor.
The group released five albums and went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time before announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2016 to pursue solo careers.
Longtime Nike athlete Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is a luminary of track and field. A mainstay among the world’s top athletes. The most decorated 100-meter sprinter of all time.
Her accolades speak for themselves: She’s won three Olympic gold medals, including the first among Caribbean women in the 100-meter; 10 World Championships, with a record five in the 100-meter alone; and seven National Championships in her home country of Jamaica, which she’s helped elevate into an international track and field powerhouse.
Still, Fraser-Pryce’s impact on sport extends far beyond statistics. She’s spent 20 years in the upper echelon of track and field, inspiring generations of athletes and young women along the way.
“In her two decades as a professional athlete, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce hasn’t just dominated the track, she’s transformed it,” says Tanya Hvizdak, VP, Global Sports Marketing. “Shelly-Ann is one of the most legendary sprinters the world has ever seen, breaking records, shattering barriers and redefining what it means to be a champion. It’s been an honor to watch her inspire generations of athletes to chase greatness as boldly as she has.”
Now, as Fraser-Pryce completes her last professional race at the World Championships in Tokyo, Nike is celebrating her longtime partnership and outstanding contributions to sport.
A Nike athlete since 2008, Fraser-Pryce has partnered with the brand to grow track and field, give back to the next generation, and emphasize the importance of academics, empowering countless young athletes in Jamaica and beyond.
“As a brand, it’s our privilege to have been part of Shelly-Ann’s career for over 17 years and to continue working together as she furthers her legacy in retirement,” says Hvizdak. “Her accolades are unmatched, but her impact as a mother, role model and relentless competitor transcends sport.”
Fraser-Pryce has long worked closely with Nike through her Pocket Rocket Foundation, named for her 5-foot frame and explosive speed, to harness the transformative power of sport, play, education and community development to enhance the lives of students and their families across Jamaica.
She’s a founding member of Nike’s industry-leading Athlete Think Tank, a collective of elite women athletes and coaches who are guiding the brand to make all women athletes feel seen, heard and supported by championing two-way partnerships that prioritize candor, deep listening and collaborative problem-solving, all in service of the athlete. The collective, and Fraser-Pryce’s ongoing contributions as a founding member, reflect Nike’s commitment to redefining the model of athlete partnership and listening to the voices of women across the highest levels of sport.
Fraser-Pryce is also a key partner in advancing Nike’s unparalleled lineup of racing innovations, providing insights that help the brand create racing footwear and apparel to help athletes across all levels of the sport reach their dreams — work that will continue in her retirement, further contributing to a legacy that extends far beyond her on-track accomplishments.
