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“I’m used to doing the impossible,” George Lucas said on Wednesday. But “this one almost broke my will”.The film-maker was describing the decades of work that went into his latest project, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, as it was unveiled to the press in Los Angeles eight years after breaking ground, following attempts to build it in two other cities. Shaped like a spaceship and towering over the nearby University of Southern California – Lucas’s alma mater – the long-awaited institution finally opens on 22 September. It aims to be a testament to visual storytelling across all kinds of…

Oghenevwede Ohworiole in Abuja MIVA open university has partnered 02 Academy to bridge the skill gap between academics and the industry for better productivity in the workplace. In a press statement signed by the Public Relations Officer (PRO), of MIVA open university, Doreen Ugbeh, the versity noted that the partnership will bridge the gap between the academic and the industry “Miva Open University has reinforced its commitment to bridging thegap between academic and industry knowledge, as it partners with O2 Academy to offer professionalcertifications and industry exposure opportunities. The partnership is designed to strengthen student employability, practical skills, and exposure…

A former safety manager has been sentenced to one year and seven months in prison in connection with the death of a five-year-old Michigan boy who was killed in a fiery January 2025 explosion inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.Jeffrey Mosteller, 66, received that sentence after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Oakland county circuit court in Michigan on Monday.He worked as the safety manager at the Oxford Center, an alternative healthcare facility that treats children with a range of health conditions – including autism, ADHD and autoimmune diseases – using hyperbaric oxygen therapy.Mosteller faced up to 15 years in…

Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security turn over records and fully cooperate with an investigation into the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who died after US border agents left him outside a closed coffee shop on a freezing night in Buffalo earlier this year.At a press conference in Buffalo on Friday, standing just a few feet away from where Shah was found dead, Tim Kennedy of New York was joined by Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking Democrat on the House homeland security committee, Lou Correa of California, and Nellie…

Nigeria’s equities market began September on a positive note, with the NGX All-Share Index (ASI) gaining 2.36 percent in the first trading week of the month. The record increase was supported by stronger trading activity and improved market breadth. The benchmark index closed the week ended Friday, September 4 at 246,992.44 points, up from 241,298.47 points the previous week, while equities market capitalisation rose 2.40 percent to N159.559 trillion. The performance lifted the market’s year-to-date (YtD) return to 58.72 percent. Performance was positive across most market indices. The NGX Oil and Gas Index led with a 9.10 percent weekly gain,…

US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and ⁠statements given to Reuters.The development follows reports ​that commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East.The air force told Wyden it disabled the advertising identifiers on computers and mobile phones two ⁠months ago. US Special Operations Command said in a separate letter that it had “recently” disabled them on its Windows devices. The army told Reuters that advertising IDs tied to mobile devices had…

PORT HARCOURT — Former Rivers State governor and Vice-Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rotimi Amaechi, has said the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, will restore electricity subsidy if elected president in 2027. Amaechi made the declaration on Thursday during ward visits across Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State, where he delivered Atiku’s campaign message to residents. He criticised the electricity tariff regime introduced by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration, alleging that the removal of electricity subsidy had drastically increased electricity bills for consumers. Using his personal electricity bill to illustrate the impact of the policy, Amaechi…

The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood disaster may never be found, and some of those that are may never be identified, a world-renowned forensic scientist says.Prof Richard Bassed, the head of forensic medicine at Melbourne’s Monash University, spent three months in Thailand after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and also helped to identify victims of Victoria’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.Now he has watched as authorities in Nepal and Tibet struggle to find and identify the dead amid the agonies of the living after last week’s devastating flash flood. More than 1,250 people have…

It’s time for our last look at the CBS Sports Average Draft Position data heading into Labor Day weekend, as well as our first look at the waiver wire. This is a busy weekend for Fantasy drafts, and we want to make sure you’re prepared. But many of you have already drafted and are looking to add free agents and alter your rosters. We have you covered. You can view the CBS Sports ADP here. And we’ll break down all the tight end movement, as well as the players who could still be available in your leagues. Let’s get started.Good…

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired international sales rights to two Tubi Original films, Remember Me and Game On, and will begin introducing both titles to international buyers ahead of next week’s TIFF market. Both are currently in production. Remember Me is a YA murder mystery based on Christopher Pike’s novel and the first book in his popular Remember Me trilogy. Directed by Danishka Esterhazy (Match) and written by Suzanne Keilly (Buzzkill), the film stars Brec Bassinger (Final Destination Bloodlines) opposite Charlie Gillespie (Heated Rivalry Season 2), with supporting performances from Mila Rayne (Darby and the Dead), Phoebe Lyons (Watch…