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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars was the first Star Wars animated series since the mid-1980s and — much like this year’s Emmy nominee from a galaxy far, far away, Andor — a huge leap forward in style and storytelling, for which the Television Academy rewarded it. Tartakovsky, who had created Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack and worked on The Powerpuff Girls, developed Clone Wars with Lucasfilm, marking the first animated show from the Star Wars universe since the 1985 Saturday morning cartoons Droids and Ewoks. Clone Wars originally aired in 2003 as a series of shorts on Cartoon Network, employing Tartakovsky’s…

Born in Richmond, the state capital of Virginia, to Nigerian parents, Emba is one of four siblings instilled with traditional African family values.”One thing that I’ve been raised in is, if you’re going to do it, do it well. See it through,” she explains.”My parents really pushed education first and everything else was secondary.”As long as I did what needed to be done in the classroom, I could be outdoors as long as I wanted.”It was a very typical African household.”Applying those values earned Emba her place at Harvard, one of the world’s most prestigious universities based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.She…

An autopsy into the death of French streamer Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, has found it was not due to trauma, according to the prosecutor handling the case.The content creator, known for streaming live videos on the platform Kick, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, on Monday.French government minister Clara Chappaz described his death as an “absolute horror” and launched a judicial investigation into the circumstances surrounding it.But prosecutor Damien Martinelli said on Thursday that medical examiners believed Mr Graven’s death “was not traumatic in origin” and “not related to the…

NewsFeedA group of reportedly Jewish tourists sparked anger in the UK after dismantling a hillside cross made of stones to create a Star of David. Local media in Wales report residents have reassembled the cross they say had been there for 50 years.Published On 21 Aug 202521 Aug 2025

Blake Lively is set to star in the romantic comedy “The Survival List.” Lionsgate, who worked with the actress on “A Simple Favor,” bought the spec script from writer Tom Melia. Marc Platt, best known for “Wicked” and “La La Land,” is in talks to join Lively as a producer on the film. Described as an “action romantic comedy,” the film follows a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie who is assigned against her wishes to a new show hosted by famous survival expert Chopper Lane. When a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a…

The Mercator projection is not a product of European chauvinism (African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size, 15 August). All map projections are compromises geared to a particular use, as a direct transference of a sphere on to a flat surface is mathematically impossible. The Mercator projection was a brilliant solution to a critical need of 16th-century pilots: a map on which they could plot a straight line that would be a “straight” line on the Earth.A mathematical marvel first put to paper by Gerard Mercator in 1569, it was not until 30…

81 The National Energy Services Reunited Corp. (NESR), a leading international provider of integrated energy services across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has announced the award of several major Production Services contracts in Algeria and Libya. The combined value of the contracts is estimated to exceed US$100 million, signaling a strong boost for oil and gas activities in North Africa. NESR disclosed the development in early August but did not provide a detailed breakdown of the contract values to show the exact worth of the Libya deals. However, the company emphasized that the multiple agreements cover essential services…

When Kevin Machado founded DifuxiON Launch Agency, the world was in crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic had forced many entrepreneurs to shut their physical doors—and they weren’t prepared to open digital ones. Under Machado’s leadership, DifuxiON successfully launched over seven digital education programs across Latin America, generating more than $1 million in combined client revenue during a time when most businesses were collapsing. For Machado, the gap was clear: “Many business owners didn’t know how to digitize their models,” he recalls. “Even something as basic as collecting client reviews to build trust was unfamiliar to them.” Originally created to help Latin…

The death of a man in France that was livestreamed on online platform Kick has sparked a police investigation and calls for regulators to examine what happened and how it was allowed to be beamed out live on the internet. What is Kick, what happened, and what could happen next?What happened?Raphaël Graven, 46, from southern France and known online as Jean Pormanove, had built a profile on Kick, where he had reportedly gained over a million followers.He died during an extended live stream on the platform this week. Leading up to his death, he was allegedly physically assaulted and humiliated by co-streamers as…

The Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown and her husband, Jake Bongiovi, have announced they have become parents after adopting a “sweet baby girl”.Brown, 21, and Bongiovi, 23, said in a statement on social media that they were “beyond excited” to enter the next chapter of their lives.Alongside a sketch of a tree, the couple wrote on Instagram on Thursday: “This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption. We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.”The post, which was accompanied by the Beatles song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, continued: “And…