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Nearly 25 years, Secretary will get a one-night-only revival by the director and cast of another erotic title, thanks to Film Independent and Mubi. Jane Schoenbrun, writer/director of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, will direct the cast of their upcoming Mubi film in a live reading of the 2002 Steven Shainberg-helmed erotic romance, as part of Film Independent’s Live Read series, set for the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on July 28 at 7:30pm. In a post on X, Schoenbrun revealed that Gillian Anderson will read the part of E. Edward Grey (originated…

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Welcome to today’s School Assembly News Headlines for July 9, 2026. Reading daily news helps students stay informed about important developments in India and across the world. It improves general knowledge, communication skills, and awareness of current affairs while encouraging critical thinking and responsible citizenship.Photo Credits – AI ImageHere are today’s top national, international, educational, and sports news headlines.National News Headlines1. India Continues Advancing Digital GovernanceThe Government of India continues expanding digital governance initiatives to improve access to online public services, including education, healthcare, digital banking, welfare schemes, and e-governance platforms. These efforts aim to enhance transparency, efficiency, and citizen…

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a man killed by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Houston this week, was not the intended target of the “enforcement operation”, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly seeking two people from Guatemala when they attempted to stop Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant who had lived in the United States for 35 years, the New York Times reported.Salgado Araujo, who was on his way to work early on Tuesday morning, was driving three other people in a white van. After the shooting, the three men were taken…

RFLD has launched its Organisational Resilience Programme (ORP), an initiative that will provide 500 registered nonprofit organisations across Africa with the RFLD Management Suite, a comprehensive organisational management system valued at US$5,000, at no cost to participating organisations. The programme is designed to strengthen the operational resilience of nonprofits by helping them establish the systems and controls increasingly required by donors, development partners, and grant-making institutions. Many organizations delivering impactful work struggle to secure funding because they lack robust financial management, governance, safeguarding, and accountability systems. Through the Organisational Resilience Programme, RFLD seeks to bridge this gap by equipping nonprofits…

Sandra Lee trademarked semi-homemade cooking twenty years ago. Now the shortcut-plus-fresh method is the logic behind every viral food hack — and her Wheatley American Vodka collab for America’s 250th shows the legacy still working.Wheatley American VodkaSomewhere in America right now, someone is doctoring a boxed cake mix with a can of pie filling, calling it dessert, and filming the whole thing for an audience waiting on the recipe. Food hacks and cooking shortcuts have been a staple of TikTok culture for the past six years, but Sandra Lee popularized the concept on the Food Network in 2003 and believed…

As parts of the UK brace for another hot weekend, online adverts have been appearing for portable air conditioners claiming to be “designed by former Nasa engineers” and able to “cool a room in 90 seconds”.The adverts have emerged on platforms including Facebook and YouTube, but the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has now warned the products are often “too good to be true”.YouTuber Stuart Matthews, who bought several devices to test on his Proper DIY channel, told the BBC that despite paying £70 for one machine, it turned out to be “a small, simple fan worth only a few pounds”.The…

Keir Starmer has signalled he could hand out resignation honours when he leaves Downing Street, despite pledging three years ago he would not do so when he eventually stood down.The prime minister twice declined to rule out drawing up a list of honours when he stands down in just over 10 days’ time, to be succeeded by Andy Burnham.As the opposition leader in 2023, Starmer criticised Rishi Sunak for allowing Boris Johnson to hand out a series of awards – including knighthoods – to his political allies, saying it was difficult to justify, given the circumstances of Johnson’s departure.Asked at…

Nearly 150 years after gallium was first discovered and added to the periodic table, scientists at the University of Auckland have uncovered previously unknown details about the metal’s atomic structure and behavior. Gallium was discovered in 1875 by French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran. It is best known for its unusually low melting point, which allows a gallium spoon to melt in a cup of hot tea. The metal also plays an essential role in semiconductors and many modern electronic technologies. The newly reported findings focus on how gallium behaves at the atomic level, revealing properties that challenge decades…

This summer’s World Cup has been one of the most fascinating on the pitch in recent memory. Not because of the teams. Because of two men.We can all admit that elite European football has become very tactical in recent years. Systems rule over individual moments. Rigidity trumps creative freedom, with stunning strikes replaced by methodically built tap-ins. That’s not to say that it’s wrong or not entertaining. But the narrative being built between Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe and the battle of their brilliance is what is making this World Cup must-watch. And deservedly so. Eight goals apiece for the…