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A person is in a critical condition after a scooter battery exploded in a central Wellington apartment with enough force to crack glass and move furniture.

Crews were called to the Tory Hotel at Century City Apartments on Tory Street at 5.30pm on Saturday, Fire & Emergency (FENZ) incident controller Mike Dombroski said.

There was a fire in an apartment on the first floor of the building, caused by an exposition in a lithium-ion scooter battery which was being charged, he said. One person was taken to hospital with critical injuries.

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A health board spokesperson said the person remained in a critical condition and was being treated at Hutt Hospital at 11.30am on Sunday.

Tory Hotel at Century City Apartments director Chris Dickinson said his thoughts were with the injured person on Sunday morning.

"It is the last thing in my life I could have imagined," he said, pointing out there would be "millions" of scooters being charged inside around the world.

The blast left superficial damage around the room including burn marks. Glass on an internal door was cracked and furniture had been moved in the explosion.

However, it was hard to say how much of the movement was from the blast and how much was due to emergency services moving things.

"It has definitely moved heavier furniture and whatever was loose," he said.

The systems worked well with sprinklers deluging the room and keeping the fire under control. Fire crews were on site within three to four minutes, he said. Damage was isolated to the single apartment.

Everyone in the complex – made up of short and long-term stays – was evacuated and allowed back in about 8pm.

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Fenz's advice for lithium-ion batteries says, when possible, electric scooters and bikes should be stored and charged in a garage, shed, or carport, and away from living spaces. They should be kept away from exit routes and combustible material.

It comes soon after one person died and crew members had to jump into the sea due to a cargo ship fire in the North Sea which was reportedly started in an electric vehicle onboard.

In December, a Wellington rubbish truck in Kilbirnie had to pull over and dump its load for fire crews when a lithium-ion battery someone had discarded caught fire after being crushed.

Fenz risk and investigations manager Todd O'Donoghue in 2022 said lithium-ion batteries – which are used in devices like smartphones, ebikes, laptops and ecigarettes – had been the cause of a number of fires.

The causes of those fires varied, with some being a faulty product design or mechanical operating failures.

Other causes include carelessness when handling the item, like leaving them close to a heat source.

"Make sure you don't charge a device under a pillow, don't leave devices in direct sunlight and only use the battery and charger that is designed for the device – all of these things can cause the device to overheat and cause a fire.

"It's also important to never dispose of lithium-ion batteries in the rubbish, as if it is defective, it could cause a fire. Recycling is the best option."

This article originally appeared on Stuff and is republished here with permission.

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A large explosion at a fireworks warehouse in southern Thailand on Saturday killed at least ten people and wounded scores, officials said.

The Narathiwat province's Public Relations Department also said that also at least 118 people were hurt, and that residents of more than 200 households were affected.

It said officials believe there are still a number of people trapped under the debris waiting to be rescued.

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Videos posted on social media from the site show a huge plume of smoke over the area and many damaged structures, cars and motorbikes, as well as streets covered with debris. Many of the houses and other buildings have collapsed roofs and walls.

The local public relations agency reported that the explosion caused damage in a radius of about 500 metres.

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About 100 residences in the area were damaged, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

Sanan Pongaksorn, the provincial governor, told public broadcaster Thai PBS that the blast was likely ignited by construction work that was taking place in the warehouse, with sparks from metal welding causing the fireworks stored inside to catch fire and explode.

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Hundreds of anti-Nazi protestors have marched through a Melbourne suburb on Saturday, in an effort to thwart a gathering of white nationalists.

Victoria Police formed a ring of steel around the gym where the meeting was being held, as demonstrators demanded an end to the growing movement.

"If we don't then they are going to grow, we've got to stop a movement from growing," one demonstrator told 9News.

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About 300 people met and then marched through the streets of Sunshine West, heading towards a boxing gym.

There, a Neo Nazi-gathering was taking place according to a flyer, which advertised the event as a White Power lifting meet, hosted by the European Australia Movement and national socialist network.

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At least 100 stickers featuring the symbol of the black sun were spotted, and scratched off, by demonstrators as they marched through the suburb.

"You don't need to know much history to know six million reasons why the battle is so important," one man told those gathered.

The march was loud and disruptive.

One of the aims of the demonstration was to put on a public show of support for the many migrants in the Sunshine West community.

"Migrants are welcome, Nazis are not," one lady in the crowd shouted.

A wall of Victoria Police officers were waiting near the gym, blocking access to protestors and leaving them to call on those inside to come out and meet them.

But from the air, it was clear the men were ignoring the protest as they appeared to enjoy a spit roast barbecue.

"The Nazis clearly didn't have the numbers to face us so they've hidden away in their gym," Jasmine Duff from Campaign Against Racism and Fascism told 9News.

"It's pretty small and pretty pathetic but at the same time the racism they feed off you can see everywhere in Australia, particularly in the mainstream," Duff said.

After about an hour, the anti-Nazi rally disbanded, their targets silent but their message loud and clear.

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Search and rescue crews have found debris in the search for four Australian defence helicopter crew who are feared dead after their aircraft went down off Hamilton Island in Queensland late last night.

The search and rescue operation has been underway for the best part of the last 18 hours.

Talisman Sabre Exercise Director Brigadier Damian Hill spoke to reporters on Saturday afternoon in Brisbane and confirmed four people were on-board the aircraft when it went into the ocean.

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"Defence can confirm there were four people on board at the time of the incident and sadly at this stage those personnel have yet to be found," Hill said.

"It is the defence's priority to look after those families, their members, their teammates and those that know them.

"Our thoughts, and mine in particular, are with the missing servicemen, their teammates and their families, and especially the search and rescue teams."

"We'll continue to work with local emergency services to continue the search."

Officials said two MRH-90 Taipan helicopters were flying in formation last night at about 11pm.

When the crew of one of those aircraft realised something had gone wrong with the other aircraft, they began the search operation immediately.

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Multiple agencies are involved in the search, including police.

The crash occurred during the Talisman Sabre military exercises, some of which are taking place off the coast of North Queensland.

The US is part of the military operation, as well as several other nations, which involves more than 30,000 personnel.

As soon as the search got underway, the next of kin and the family of the four personnel were informed.

Earlier today, Defence Minister Richard Marles and the Chief of Defence Angus Campbell spoke to reporters and offered their support to the families.

"Defence exercises, which are so necessary for the readiness of our defence force, are serious. They carry risk," Campbell said.

"And as we desperately hope for better news during the course of this day, we are reminded about the gravity of the act which comes with wearing our nation's uniform.

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"This is indeed a terrible moment."

Earlier on Saturday, a barge was filmed pulling wreckage from an area off the coast of Queensland.

Search and rescue crews had noticed debris in an area to the south of Hamilton Island.

Specialist divers are expected to come to the area around Hamilton Island as part of the search.

The MRH-90 aircraft are being phased out by the defence force, after one went down off the coast of New South Wales near Jervis Bay in March.

At the time, it had 10 personnel on board but all were able to make their way out.

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‘Today’s signing is a significant milestone for the people of Te Korowai o Wainuiārua.’

Scientists have revived a worm that was frozen 46,000 years ago — at a time when woolly mammoths, sabre-toothed tigers and giant elk still roamed the Earth.

The roundworm, of a previously unknown species, survived 40 metres below the surface in the Siberian permafrost in a dormant state known as cryptobiosis, according to Professor Emeritus Teymuras Kurzchalia, professor emeritus at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and one of the scientists involved in the research.

Organisms in a cryptobiotic state can endure the complete absence of water or oxygen and withstand high temperatures, as well as freezing or extremely salty conditions.

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They remain in a state "between death and life," in which their metabolic rates decrease to an undetectable level, Kurzchalia explained.

"One can halt life and then start it from the beginning. This a major finding," he said, adding that other organisms previously revived from this state had survived for decades rather than millennia.

Five years ago, scientists from the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Russia found two roundworm species in the Siberian permafrost.

One of the researchers, Anastasia Shatilovich, revived two of the worms at the institute by simply rehydrating them with water, before taking around 100 worms to labs in Germany for further analysis, transporting them in her pocket.

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After thawing the worms, the scientists used radiocarbon analysis of the plant material in the sample to establish that the deposits had not been thawed since between 45,839 and 47,769 years ago.

But they still didn't know whether the worm was a known species. Eventually, genetic analysis conducted by scientists in Dresden and Cologne showed that these worms belonged to a novel species, which researchers named Panagrolaimus kolymaenis.

Researchers also found that the P. kolymaenis shared with C. elegans — another organism often used in scientific studies — "a molecular toolkit" that could allow it to survive cryptobiosis.

Both organisms produce a sugar called trehalose, possibly enabling them to endure freezing and dehydration.

"To see that the same biochemical pathway is used in a species which is 200, 300 million years away, that's really striking," said Philipp Schiffer, research group leader of the Institute of Zoology at the University of Cologne and one of the scientists involved in the study.

"It means that some processes in evolution are deeply conserved."

Schiffer added that there are other actionable insights that can be gleaned by studying these organisms.

"By looking at and analyzing these animals, we can maybe inform conservation biology, or maybe even develop efforts to protect other species, or at least learn what to do to protect them in these extreme conditions that we have now," he told CNN.

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