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Cutting-edge technology, cost effectiveness, and “unlimited creativity.” That is what Spain’s Pedralonga Estudios promised at a launch event for its new virtual production facility Coruña Immersive Studio (CEI) on the third day of the fifth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, Spain. It is equipped with “state-of-the-art immersive technology capable of recreating hyper-realistic environments that drive both the national and international media industry,” according to press materials. Under the title “Innovation and Efficiency: Discover the Future of Content Production,” the event, attended by industry representatives from Spain and foreign countries, featured comments from José Manuel Deus, managing director of Pedralonga Estudios, Rosa Ana García, County…

Monrovia — The West African Health Organization (WAHO), in partnership with the Government of Liberia(GoL) through the Ministry of Health, has launched a three-day regional workshop in Monrovia aimed at strengthening health cooperation and improving emergency response mechanisms across the subregion. The high-level gathering, taking place at A’La Lagune in Congo Town, outside Monrovia, brings together stakeholders and delegates from eleven ECOWAS member states, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Benin, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Togo, The Gambia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cape Verde. Discussions at the workshop are centered on reviewing current health initiatives, assessing the effectiveness of ongoing programs, and identifying challenges…

Here comes “The Bride!” Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, who received an Academy Award for “Joker,” is already waiting for her. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s upcoming monster movie, taking on the “Frankenstein” mythos, stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. In the film, Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. They end up reinvigorating a murdered young woman. “It was a little bit nuts,” she laughs. “The Bride!” debuted its trailer back in September.  “It’s a very layered world with lots of different things happening. There’s a love story, thriller and the monstrous…

The gold mine dumps towering over parts of Soweto are a familiar landscape. But for those living in their shadow, these landmarks pose a serious health threat. “Growing up in Diepkloof next to a mine dump was normal, as the mine dump was seen as a natural mountain,” says Michael Lelaka. “However, growing older, we saw that the mountain was yellow in colour. And during the dry season, it is unbearable living in Diepkloof. The gold dust will cover the yard with a fine yellow dust. You’ll find this dust inside the house, on the food and at times in…

A court in Manchester in the United Kingdom has sentenced seven men to prison terms ranging from 12 to 35 years for the systematic sexual abuse of two teenage girls in Rochdale, in the north of England, between 2001 and 2006.Mohammed Zahid, a 65-year-old market trader and the group’s ringleader, received the longest sentence on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple counts of rape and other sexual offences against both victims.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listSix other men, aged between 39 and 67, were also convicted following a four-month trial that concluded in June.They formed part of what…

David SchoenfieldOct 1, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseCovers MLB for ESPN.com Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995Mathematical probability, in a perfectly equitable distribution of championships, means each MLB team would win a World Series once every 30 years. That is not the world we live in, of course, so many franchises have experienced long title droughts that have stretched into multiple decades. There is even one that has never appeared in the Fall Classic.That establishes a super fun element to this year’s postseason. We have seven playoff teams who have gone longer than 30 years since…

NASA’s VIPER lunar rover could be delivered to the moon by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company. The US space agency has awarded the company a task order to design a delivery plan for the rover, with a future delivery option.The award, worth $190 million, was issued through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which the agency is using to buy delivery services to the moon from private companies. The award does not directly imply a delivery agreement; first, NASA will verify whether Blue Origin is capable of successfully sending the expensive VIPER rover to the moon’s south pole.…

Published On 2 Oct 20252 Oct 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareIndonesian authorities have deployed heavy machinery to shift massive sections of a collapsed school, with approximately 59 teenage students still unaccounted for, three days after the devastating structural failure.After consulting with families of the missing students and detecting no further signs of life beneath the rubble, officials made the decision to proceed.“In any case, we will be very, very careful when using the heavy machines,” stated Coordinating Minister Pratikno, emphasising that despite the bleak outlook, operations would continue with extreme caution.The catastrophe occurred on Monday when the prayer…

Suba Dafallah was selling vegetables at a market in the Sudanese city of Nyala one morning in March when he got a distressing call from his sister, saying their mother would like to speak to him. “Come quickly. There are clashes in the town,” he recalled his mother saying.He gathered his belongings, closed his stall and ran home as fast as he could.Members of the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in a civil war since April 2023, had attacked a military camp in the city, in South Darfur, and were rampaging…

BBCJonathan Jones was given chemotherapy tablets for 16 years, but NHS guidelines say they should only be taken for six monthsA brain cancer patient who says he was prescribed chemotherapy tablets for 16 years, even though NHS guidelines say they should only be taken for six months, has said he feels his youth was stolen from him. Jonathan Jones was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma in 2007 when he was 17 and took temozolomide tablets until November 2023, when he was 33.Since he has raised his case with lawyers, more than 30 other brain cancer patients at University Hospitals Coventry and…