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Scotland today officially rolls out what it is hailing as the world’s first national Film and Screen Curriculum, embedding filmmaking into classrooms for every pupil aged 3 to 18.  The scheme, part of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, will be launched Wednesday at the Dundee Contemporary Arts by Screen Scotland, Education Scotland and the Scottish Government. Over three years, the curriculum has been tested in 30 local authorities from Shetland to Dumfries and Galloway, reaching more than 6,000 pupils. Lessons range from nursery children strapping iPads to bikes to capture playground footage to secondary students producing scripted shorts, documentaries and animations.…

Adam RittenbergSep 9, 2025, 06:52 AM ETCloseCollege football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.Utah’s mission to reboot its offense started with adding a quarterback-coordinator combination from New Mexico, as Devon Dampier and Jason Beck made their way to Salt Lake City.But the Utes also needed playmakers to surround Dampier. Their search led them to the transfer portal, naturally, but also to their own roster and, ultimately, to the other side of the ball.Smith Snowden, who started at nickel in 2024 and had 10 passes defended, and linebacker Lander Barton, the team’s tackles leader in fall 2024 who…

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“I think what we’re seeing is … an evolution of Netanyahu’s descent into insanity.”The “brazen activities” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are a way to “redraw the Middle East map”, says Professor Mehran Kamrava from Georgetown University.Published On 10 Sep 202510 Sep 2025

The maker of Wegovy and Ozempic, Novo Nordisk, has announced it will cut 9,000 jobs weeks after warning that profits will fall as more “knock-off” weight-loss drugs emerge.The redundancies make up 11% of the Danish company’s workforce and mark the first major step by new chief executive Mike Doustdar as Novo Nordisk faces mounting pressures in the rapidly expanding weight-loss sector.Demand for weight-loss drugs has increased in recent years, in particular after Covid-related lockdowns forced people to stay in their homes.Mr Doustdar said: “Our markets are evolving, particularly in obesity, as it has become more competitive and consumer-driven. Our company…

What a difference a changing regulatory environment makes. Roughly nine months after suggesting that a young copy trading platform could only operate because it flew “under the radar” of regulators, Robinhood has announced its own entry into the space with “Robinhood Social,” a new feature that will allow users to follow and manually replicate the trades of prominent investors. The move represents a striking about-face for the online brokerage, which has historically been cautious about features that could attract regulatory scrutiny. The company famously ditched its celebratory digital confetti feature ahead of its 2021 IPO after regulators raised concerns about…

The maker of the weight-loss and diabetes drugs Ozempic and Wegovy is to cut 9,000 jobs as it issued a profit warning amid increased competition from the US rival Eli Lilly.Novo Nordisk’s decision to cut 11% of its global workforce comes as sales of its diabetes drugs including Ozempic have slowed sharply as it faces fierce competition from Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro jabs and the threat of US tariffs.The drugmaker, whose booming sales of GLP-1 diabetes and obesity drugs in recent years had turned it into Europe’s most valuable company, said that 5,000 of the job cuts will be in its…

School (1974)Supertramp spent their early years exploring, developing a flair for soft-focus introspection and muscular adventure without quite finding melodic hooks for their stylistic acumen. Crime of the Century, their third album, is where things started to change for the group and School provides the bridge between their art-rock beginnings and the clever pop polish that brought them fame. One of the rare full collaborations between Rick Davies and his singer/songwriter partner Roger Hodgson, School takes flight once Davies’ jazz-inflected piano pushes Hodgson’s sarcastic swipes at educational bureaucracy toward an open-ended space, the sweeping solos suggesting worlds far away from…

Nikon has just unveiled the ZR, its first official co-brand with RED, the cinema camera company it purchased in April of last year.The ZR takes what Nikon has already been doing well, with its heavily adaptable Z-mount, internal RAW video recording and popular color science and turns it up to 11 for video shooters. That’s headlined by its ability to shoot RED R3D NE files. These files allow you to change settings like ISO and white balance can be changed in post, giving you way more flexibility after shooting. It was a big reason people purchased RED cameras in the…

The band left Spotify in June after its CEO Daniel Ek invested in AI military drone technology After pulling their music from Spotify following CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military drone technology, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have successfully taken over the entire Top 25 of Bandcamp’s best-selling albums and are letting fans “name your price.” While Bandcamp’s default pricing for albums is set at $9 (with tracks at $1.50), the company says artist are still able to set “pricing in a way that reflects your goals, your audience, and the value of your work.” The novel pricing…