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Lumière Summit establishes shared cinema standards and Korea fund
The Lumière Summit, held on 7 September 2026 at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, concluded with countries and screen-industry bodies adopting five declarations covering artificial intelligence, piracy, gender equality, image education and environmental sustainability. Opened by President Emmanuel Macron, the gathering also launched the IRIS independent cinema initiative and announced a $1.16 billion France-Korea…
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Welsh environment regulator’s FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff
Natural Resources Wales (NRW), the Welsh government-sponsored environmental regulator, has admitted that sensitive diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees was accidentally published on a website. The breach stems from a spreadsheet released in 2021 in response to a Freedom of Information request, meaning the data sat exposed online for roughly five…
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Screen Industries Adopt Five Thematic Declarations at Lumiere Summit, Setting Terms on AI, Piracy, Gender, Education and the Environment
Screen industry bodies, national governments and rights organisations adopted five thematic declarations at the Lumière Summit, held on Monday at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. The declarations establish shared frameworks covering artificial intelligence, piracy, gender equality, image education and environmental sustainability, aiming to shape future legislation and cross-border industry cooperation. Signatories include France, the…
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Turtle doves released in bid to stop extinction
Conservationists have released more than 30 turtle doves in the South Downs National Park in an effort to save the UK’s fastest-declining bird species from extinction. The dove, best known for its mention in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” carol, has seen its UK population collapse by 98% between the late 1960s and 2023, and…
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Horrifying new video of fatal crocodile attack as beast performs death roll on wildlife worker – months after staff taunted them in enclosure
A wildlife worker at Adventure Park in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, has died after a crocodile seized him during a feeding and performed a “death roll” while horrified onlookers watched. The attack, which occurred on Saturday afternoon, took police roughly an hour and eleven shots to end, and comes just months after videos surfaced…
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Saber CCO Tim Willits is still bullish on AI, but concerned about its environmental impact: ‘Elon wants to put servers in space. That could be the answer, right?’
Saber Interactive’s chief creative officer, Tim Willits, has said he remains optimistic about the potential of AI in game development, while acknowledging growing concern about the technology’s environmental footprint. Willits, a veteran designer known for his work on id Software titles, argued that AI tools could meaningfully speed up production, but he flagged the energy…
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Political heavyweights clash over Budget tax plans and Trump’s Falklands signals
Laffer warns Labour against “taxing Britain to death” as Burnham backs public control; Hitchens questions the special relationship; plus Katie Taylor’s retirement, gambling site data breaches and a big Premier League weekend.
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Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
New research led by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture suggests that farmed salmon, which now accounts for nearly 70% of global salmon consumption, contains significantly lower levels of Omega-3 fatty acids than it once did. This matters because official dietary guidance in the US, including from the USDA and the American Heart Association,…
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Revealed: The construction tycoon helping travellers build illegal encampments across the countryside… as he’s pictured at Bank Holiday ‘land grab’ that saw wildlife haven bulldozed
A building firm run by construction tycoon Karl Kavanagh, 48, has been linked to two separate illegal traveller encampments set up over recent Bank Holiday weekends, including one in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, where a wildlife haven was bulldozed before residents and the council forced it off. Vehicles belonging to his Hampshire-based company, KK Construction, were filmed…
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How the hair of a museum bear is helping tackle wildlife crime
A forensic science graduate at the University of Staffordshire is using fur samples from a 120-year-old taxidermy bear at the Museum of Chelmsford to help combat wildlife crime. Hayden Leigh’s PhD research compares the characteristics of the bear’s hair, nicknamed Boris, to develop better methods for identifying animal hairs in criminal investigations, with the ultimate…