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When The Oprah Winfrey Show premiered on Sept. 8, 1986, the host had no idea if it would even last a month, let alone 25 years and change the entire media landscape in the process. “I knew my life was about to change,” Oprah Winfrey reflected in 2025 on her Oprah Daily site. “What I couldn’t have imagined was the force for good the show would become—the impact it would have on me, on my team (the best team in television), and on the millions of lives we touched.” She had sensed, as a newswoman anchoring AM Chicago who would get reprimanded for empathizing too much with the…

Every bit as evocative as its lengthy title, No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman is a vertiginous descent into hell. Halkawt Mustafa’s third fiction feature even rises from pitch blackness, with the camera gliding through a cracked-open wall to lock its sights on Vyan (Avan Jamal). The Peshmerga sniper sneaks into Mosul to flush the occupiers out of the northern Iraqi city. Her main target: a ruthless ISIS fighter nicknamed the ​“Swedish Sniper”, who has forced Vyan’s sister into wedlock while laying constant aim on the terrorized city. It’s 2016, two years after ISIS turned Iraq’s second-largest city into a ruinous open-air prison, during a war…

While you may best remember handheld insecticide sprayers from their pop culture appearances in Mickey’s Garden (1935) or The Godfather (1972), these “FLIT guns” once represented a huge leap forward in our struggle against destructive pests. The device was an innovation to dispense FLIT, the brand name of a mineral-oil-based insecticide manufactured by the Standard Oil Company beginning in 1923. A pneumatic hand pump affixed to a reservoir allowed home gardeners to easily and accurately distribute a cloud of fine insecticidal mist around garden beds, water barrels, and picnic tables.  FLIT guns helped others limit pests throughout their homes too.…

As many of you are aware, we had conducted the Alpha Ideas SME Stars Meet on 06 September, 2026 in Mumbai. 11 Companies presented on their own businesses and networked with the Delegates. Presentations have been uploaded to the Exchanges. We had around 350+ Delegates from all over India. It was great to host such a friendly and enthusiastic group of investors. I will let the pictures do the talking. 01. Exato Technologies Ltd You Tube Link of Recording: Exato Technologies Ltd 02.Msafe Equipments Ltd You Tube Link of Recording: Msafe Equipments Ltd 03.Workmates Core2Cloud Solution Ltd You Tube Link of Recording:…

New Zealand batter Mark Chapman has opted to shift to a casual contract with New Zealand Cricket for the 2026-27 season as he looks to pursue an opportunity in the Australian Big Bash League. The decision means Chapman will no longer be part of New Zealand’s central contract list for the upcoming season.However, Mark Chapman remains available for selection for New Zealand’s upcoming home series against India. He will join the other casually contracted players, Finn Allen, Lockie Ferguson, Adam Milne and Tim Seifert, as the BLACKCAPS prepare for a busy home summer.Mark Chapman opts for BBL, shifts to casual…

Lazio continued their 100 per cent start to the new Serie A season as they staged a late turnaround to win 2-1 at Udinese. Despite a fan revolt that has seen supporters boycott home games at the Stadio Olimpico in protest at the way the club is being run by president Claudio Lotito, Lazio have begun the campaign in fine style under Gennaro Gattuso. Having kept clean sheets in 1-0 wins over Bologna and Genoa, it looked as if Lazio would come unstuck in Udine when the hosts broke the deadlock four minutes into the second half. Lazio conceded for…

Five players who could be moved in the first month of season if their teams get off to a slow start Ryan Lambert of The Hockey News: Many teams are entering the season with a little more breathing room with their salary cap. With some extra space available, it may be easier for teams to pull off some trades earlier in the season. A look at some players who could be on the move before the end of October if they’re teams are falling in the standings. 1. Ryan O’Reilly – Nashville Predators – One year left on his contract.…

President Donald Trump has warned Canadian aircraft company Bombardier that it can no longer sell in the US unless it moves its manufacturing there.”NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday. “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank’.”The move comes amid an escalating trade war between the two neighbours, and hours before Canadian retaliatory tariffs are set to be imposed on $20bn (£14.7bn) worth of US goods.In a statement, Bombardier underscored that it employed thousands of American workers and said it valued…

The “White hat” party that withdrew nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network federation wallet on Sunday returned 3,400 BTC to the wallet on Monday. About 598 BTC, or 15% of the consolidated pile, stayed at the same holder address as an implied bounty fee worth 48 million dollars. The return transaction (bc49a46d), confirmed at 16:09 UTC on September 7. It returned exactly 3,400 BTC to the labeled Liquid peg script address and sent the 598.5 BTC change back to the “White hat” hacker address as change.  The transfer followed a day of messages written into Bitcoin blocks. The White…

Elvis Presley bought this Memphis mansion for $102,500, which became his final home(Image Credit: Instagram) There are celebrity homes, and then there is Graceland. For Elvis Presley, the sprawling Memphis mansion was more than a luxurious house bought at the height of his fame. It became his home base for two decades, a place where he lived with his family, entertained friends and returned between recording sessions, movie projects and tours. Even after his death, the house continued to grow in importance, eventually becoming one of America’s most famous historic homes.From a 500-acre farm to Elvis Presley’s homeThe story of…