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Prime Video India has inked a multi-year post-theatrical licensing deal with Maddock Films, securing worldwide exclusive streaming rights to eight highly anticipated upcoming titles from the Indian production house. The agreement makes Prime Video the global streaming home for films from Maddock’s popular horror-comedy universe set to premiere theatrically between 2025 and 2027, including “Thama,” starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Rashmika Mandanna – which is part of the “Stree” universe – and two other franchise titles to be announced. The slate will be available to Prime members across more than 240 countries and territories shortly after their theatrical releases. The deal…

The UK Space Agency will cease to exist as an independent entity to cut the cost of bureaucracy, the government said on Wednesday.It will be absorbed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) in April 2026.The government says this will save money, cut duplication and ensure ministerial oversight.But one leading space scientist said the move would lead to disruption in the short term and the UK losing ground to its international competitors over the long run.Dr Simeon Barber of the Open University feared that scrapping UKSA would lead to Britain’s space sector “losing focus”.”Around the world countries have…

All readers of Jane Austen will remember Mr Woodhouse’s objection to his daughter’s portrait of Harriet Smith. “It is very pretty,” he said to Emma, “just as all your drawings are, my dear. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is that she seems to be sitting out of doors with only a little shawl over her shoulders, and it makes me think she must catch cold.” “But, my dear Papa,” protested Emma, “it is supposed to be summer, a warm day in summer. Look at the trees.” “But it is never safe to sit out of doors, my…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.A record amount of renewable energy capacity has been granted planning permission in the second quarter of this year, in a sign of the growing momentum behind the UK government’s push for clean power. More than 16.1 gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity spread across 323 projects was given permission to start building during the quarter, according to Financial Times analysis of government data published on Wednesday. The figure for capacity represents a 195 per cent rise on the same quarter last…

Mollie Sussman and Eli Frankel show off his new race-car bed. The 5-year-old is one of 3.6 million children in the U.S. in 2020 who are starting kindergarten this year. Vanessa Romo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Vanessa Romo/NPR Last Wednesday was a big day for the Sussman and Frankel family. It was the first day of school at California Creative Academy, a charter school in Los Angeles, where 5-year-old Eli is newly enrolled in kindergarten. “We were super freaked out,” Mollie Sussman told NPR, referring to herself and her husband Brad Frankel. “We were really scared and [Eli] was pretty…

Vulnerabilities Using data from the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers identified 10,861 drug facilities that were active for at least one year between 2019 and 2024. These facilities represent the array of manufacturing stages of a drug, from analyzing raw drug materials, manufacturing active ingredients, to packaging drug products. The researchers then looked at the county location of each of these facilities and whether any federally declared weather emergencies occurred in those counties during the period. Weather-related emergencies included those from fires, hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, and floods. During the six-year span, 6,819 facilities (63 percent) faced at least one…

In early August, just days before a major Black Ops 7 preview event in Los Angeles, former Blizzard president and Microsoft executive Mike Ybarra called the Call of Duty franchise “lazy”. Posting on X, the veteran exec wrote that EA’s upcoming Battlefield 6 would “boot stomp” CoD this year and force the team to make “better FPS games”. And with Splitgate 2 head Ian Proulx mocking Call of Duty in his Summer Game Fest presentation just two months ago, it seems the blockbuster series has become the butt of an industry joke about endless franchises.It’s not the only flak the…

Since 1946, thousands of spectators have flocked to the small hamlet of Langford, near Buffalo N.Y., for the annual tractor pull, which is the longest-running competition of its kind in America. Zach Jaworski for NPR hide caption toggle caption Zach Jaworski for NPR LANGFORD, N.Y. — For two days in August, this small hamlet south of Buffalo becomes a can’t-miss destination for fans of a distinctively agricultural motorsport: the tractor pull. Spectators gather on wooden bleachers flanking a long dirt runway, forming an arena that seats 4,000 people — more than the surrounding area’s total population. A welcome sign to…

In 2014 Mura Yakerson, a college student at the time, decided to practice driving in a quiet area in the countryside near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Then something went wrong. While she was pulling out of a parking space, Yakerson accidentally damaged another car. This incident turned out to be the beginning of a nightmare.Because she drove away from the scene, unaware that she had hit another vehicle, a judge later charged Yakerson with leaving the place of an accident and then gave her the choice between a one-year driving ban or three days in jail. Yakerson chose incarceration. She thought…

The senators urged for the protection of journalists in Gaza and international media access to the territory.A group of 17 US senators has written to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, condemning an Israeli attack last week that killed several Al Jazeera journalists, and urging the US to pressure Israel to grant foreign media access to Gaza and protect journalists there.The letter [pdf] published on Wednesday was led by Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz and signed by 16 other senators, including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a registered independent who caucuses with the…