NY Times World

Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80

Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.

general  Sep 7, 2026

MarketWatch

Travis Kelce bought a $5.35 million estate on Lake Erie months before marrying Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce forked over $5.35 million for a sprawling lakefront Ohio estate just months before he and Taylor Swift said “I do” at New York City’s iconic Madison Square Garden.

business  Sep 7, 2026

Yahoo Finance

If the Fed Hikes Interest Rates This Month, History Says This Is the Smartest ETF to Buy Right Now

business  Sep 7, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Frazier & Deeter picks new assurance partner in North Carolina

business  Sep 7, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Saudi Arabia, UAE Push Ahead With Data Center Plans

business  Sep 7, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Baidu Just Gained Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Connect Access. Is It Now a Better AI Bet Than Alibaba?

business  Sep 7, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Is Marathon Petroleum Stock Outperforming the S&P 500?

business  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Swiftly enchanted’: why Bedknobs and Broomsticks is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder that Disney’s kids fantasy is more than a Mary Poppins knock-off“Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee!” – the four incantatory words I blame for receiving a shonky Paul Daniels Magic Set as a child in the 80s. In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, it’s the spell that Angela Lansbury’s patriotic Nazi-vanquishing witch Eglantine Price casts to transform people into fluffy rabbits; a trick I yearned to pull off.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Politics

I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet

Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national psycheAs a disabled person, you’re forced to repeatedly explain your medical history – but for this article, I think it’s important. I was born with a very rare type of cancer called a neuroblastoma. In 1965, it was pretty much a death sentence. Luckily, I took part in a clinical trial and, with only days to live, I had major surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with a new drug. De

politics  Sep 7, 2026

NY Times World

How Ancient Farmers Used Floral Designs to Track Goods

A Mesopotamian culture’s decorated ceramics show some early roots of math, researchers argued.

general  Sep 7, 2026

NY Times World

In Peru, the Trump Administration Sees the Limits of Its Anti-China Push

As Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels this week to Peru, its growing economic ties to China have raised tensions with the U.S., but show no signs of reversing course.

general  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

France TV Distribution Unveils Female-Led Actioners in Le Havre Lineup

France TV Distribution is presenting four new TV movies, including two female-fronted action thrillers, a light crime drama and a dramedy, at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre, which runs Sept. 7-10. The sales company’s muscular lineup already includes the historical drama “Swapped,” about a young wet nurse in 19th-century Paris forced to secretly […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

France and Korea Launch $1.16 Billion Screen Industry Financing Partnership at Lumiere Summit

France and Korea have each pledged €500 million ($581 million) to a joint initiative designed to strengthen the global screen industries, with the first funding instruments deploying from 2027 through 2031. The Lumière Partnership, unveiled Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, is open to additional countries and will prioritize companies with the ambition and […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Toho Europe, Indonesia Film Fund, Cinepolis Pact Among Deals Unveiled at Lumiere Summit

Monday’s Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence generated a cluster of industry announcements alongside its headline declarations, with deals spanning co-production financing, distribution, exhibition and education. Toho Europe, the regional arm of Tokyo-based entertainment group Toho Co., Ltd. – founded in 1932 and best known internationally for the “Godzilla” franchise – announced a new branch in France. […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Heritage Foundation ALIPH Targets Ukraine, Syria and Indonesia in New Film Rescue Program

With only an estimated 20% of the world’s film heritage safeguarded, the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage is making its first move into cinema. Announced Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, ALIPH’s new Program for the Safeguarding of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Heritage at Risk will bring together emergency intervention, preservation, physical […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Regal Cinemas, IFTA, CNC Launch Pilot to Test Whether Smarter Programming Can Reverse Falling Theater Admissions

Regal Cinemas and the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), together with the CNC, launched the Future of Distribution pilot on Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, – a new international initiative that will hand under-used cinema screens to a neutral programmer in a bid to reverse falling theater attendance. The pilot gets […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Washington Post World

They formed to fight Haiti’s gangs. Now they’re an obstacle to peace.

As a U.S.-backed, U.N.-authorized force attempts to restore security, “self-defense brigades” pose a unique challenge.

general  Sep 7, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Ask an Advisor: Can I Use Roth Conversion Funds to Pay the Taxes on the Conversion?

business  Sep 7, 2026

Wired

Plastics Companies Are Writing Lesson Plans. What Could Go Wrong?

The science curriculum the industry is offering to schools casts plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

technology  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Louis Garrel on Being Nanni Moretti’s Alter Ego and Doing Sex Scenes With Jasmine Trinca in ‘It Will Happen Tonight’: ‘You Have to Feel a Real Connection’

French actor and director Louis Garrel, who gained international fame starring in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Dreamers,” is at the Venice Film Festival with a film by another Italian auteur, Nanni Moretti’s “It Will Happen Tonight.” The romantic drama, which is competing for the prestigious Golden Lion, stars Garrel as Matteo, the male lead of a […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026