Getty Images The Harris campaign says it has raised $200m in the past week It began with a group of black women on a Zoom call who hit a million-dollar fundraising target in about three hours. A series of similar Zooms followed, including the latest: a group of about 123,000 “white dudes” gathered virtually to … Read more
Bedfordshire Police Carol Morgan’s murder remained unsolved for years, despite regular reviews by the police As a man begins a prison sentence for plotting the murder of his wife more than 40 years ago, the police detective who led the original investigation recalls how Allen Morgan was always a prime suspect. For four decades, the … Read more
Catholic Medical Center, a hospital network in South Korea, has recently undergone digital health assessments to measure the baseline maturity of its hospitals. Widely adopted digital health assessment tools from HIMSS were applied, namely the Digital Health Indicator (DHI), Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), and Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM). The DHI measures an organisation’s … Read more
This was for Ukraine. It was for the people back home where every victory, of whatever kind, is laden with meaning few outside can understand. It was for those who have lost their lives while fighting to ensure the country’s athletes remain free to compete. It was for Olha Kharlan’s family in Mykolaiv, where her … Read more
The times are slow and margins are slim in the Olympic pool, where the Great Britain team won their second silver medal of the championships on Monday night. It was the Welshman Matt Richards who did it, with a superb swim from lane one in the men’s 200m freestyle. He finished up just two-hundredths of … Read more
The opposition leader battling to bring the curtains down on Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime has urged the Venezuelan strongman to accept that his exit from power is inevitable. The call came as thousands of protesters hit the streets to repudiate Maduro’s disputed claim to have won a third term in power. Venezuela’s incumbent president was … Read more
The South China Sea is one of the world’s most economically important waterways, and increasingly one of Asia’s biggest flashpoints. The sea, which stretches across 3.5m sq km (1.35m sq miles), is a busy shipping lane, with trillions of dollars’ worth of trade passing through it every year. It is also rich in fish, and … Read more
A cloud-based analytics platform for Singapore’s public healthcare sector has been recently unveiled. In June, Synapxe, the country’s national healthtech agency, started onboarding hospitals and health facilities into the platform called HEALIX (Health Empowerment thru Advanced Learning & Intelligent eXchange). WHAT IT’S ABOUT A first of such in Singapore, HEALIX is designed to be a … Read more
Videos of police action during protests show shots fired at protesters An image is worth a thousand words – sometimes, it can even stir a nation. In Bangladesh, it was the image of university student Abu Sayeed standing with open arms, stick in hand, facing heavily-armed police alone which many credit as the turning point … Read more