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Greenwich awards Bulgarian photographer £1,500 aurora prize

Architect Radoslav Sviretsov took top honours in the northern lights division of the global astronomy contest, while Kuwait’s Ali Alobaidly secured the overall title.

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Blizzard Producer Quits X Over Test Bans

A testing phase for a coming online role-playing game removed 0.18% of character names, triggering an internet backlash that drove a senior developer offline.

Video Games

Blizzard holds game level cap at 20

Blizzard Entertainment widened server capacity for tester demand while keeping character progression capped at level 20.

Video Games

Blizzard resets Forever class balance in beta

Blizzard’s first major World of Warcraft: Forever balance pass changes class damage, talents, threat and utility enough to make early beta rankings obsolete.

Video Games

Blizzard caps Legacy builds at 16 points

World of Warcraft: Forever will reward account-wide achievements while limiting how much gameplay power each character can use.

Video Games

Blizzard locks World of Warcraft to level 60

Blizzard Entertainment will keep World of Warcraft: Forever on its original continents with no raised level cap, adding new zones instead of sending players into expansions.

Video Games

Blizzard caps shared player power at 16

The video game maker lets players earn 65 shared points across their account while limiting each character to spending 16, keeping side adventures rewarding without breaking balance.

Video Games

Blizzard caps Warcraft power climb at level 60

Blizzard Entertainment will launch a permanent edition of World of Warcraft with a level cap fixed at 60 while continuing to release new endgame content.

People & Events

Pope Leo draws 800,000 to Paris

Massive open-air Mass on the Champs-Elysees closes central Paris and fuels debate over Catholic revival in secular France.

Culture

El País debunks viral Roman complex find

Online posts fabricated an excavation report outside Seville using a fake newspaper link to simulate coverage of ancient administrative ruins.

Film & TV

DreamWorks delays Shrek 5 to 2027

Film studio Universal pushed the animated sequel back twice while online rumors misdated its verified preview video.

Video Games

Blizzard locks World of Warcraft to level 60

Blizzard Entertainment will launch a permanent version of its online game that expands original lands instead of abandoning them for new continents.

People & Events

Prince Harry returns to London for Invictus awards

Prince Harry made his first public appearance in the United Kingdom following his return from California, attending the inaugural Invictus Spirit Awards in London.

Film & TV

Apple TV expands spy hit Slow Horses

Apple TV premiered season six of its spy thriller on September 16, breaking custom to adapt two novels into six episodes.

Film & TV

The Pitt leads 78th Emmy Awards

The medical series took top drama honors while comedy-horror hit Widow's Bay dominated comedy categories.

Video Games

Sony lifts PS5 Pro price to $899.99

Online claims of a new console reveal misread a 2024 announcement for an established machine that grew costlier.

Film & TV

Bulgarian filmmakers fight unproven villa plan

Industry workers rallied outside Sofia's historic Boyana film studios over fears that housing could replace production stages when twenty-year privatization limits expire in November 2026.

People & Events

Princess Astrid dies at 94

Norway loses its long-serving former first lady two weeks after the death of her brother King Harald V

AI Agents

Meta takes rock band Muse social handles

British rock band Muse ceded its longtime @muse accounts to Meta Platforms so the tech giant could launch an artificial intelligence tool with the same name.

Culture

How a Property Listing Unraveled a Nazi Art Heist

An Argentine court cleared an eighteenth-century portrait looted in wartime Amsterdam for return to its rightful heir after an online property ad exposed its hiding place.

People & Events

Frederiksen rebukes surgeon over nose remark

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen publicly rejected unsolicited cosmetic advice from a male plastic surgeon after returning from Ukraine.

People & Events

Norway King Harald dies at 89

Crown Prince Haakon succeeds to the Norwegian throne after King Harald V dies at Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet.

People & Events

Ratko Mladic dies in custody at 84

The convicted Bosnian Serb commander died while serving a life term in The Hague, closing the legal chapter on Europe's worst wartime atrocities since World War Two.

Culture

Buñol holds 79th Tomatina with 150 tonnes

Buñol's municipal government hosted its 79th annual La Tomatina festival on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, drawing 22,000 ticketed participants to an hour-long tomato fight using 150 metric tonnes of fruit.

AI

YouTube targets mass-produced AI videos for ad cuts

Online video service YouTube has set clearer limits on repetitive synthetic clips, stripping ad pay from low-effort mass production without banning artificial intelligence tools entirely.

People & Events

Dolly Parton dies leaving an enduring musical legacy

The celebrated country music icon, songwriter, and philanthropist died peacefully in Nashville at 80, leaving behind a globally cherished artistic catalog and thriving charitable programs.

People & Events

Post Malone appears engaged to Christy Lee

Friends documented an August 18 proposal celebration in Utah, but Post Malone and Christy Lee have not publicly confirmed the details or announced wedding plans.

People & Events

Harry and Meghan’s UK move remains unconfirmed

Multiple outlets report an extended family stay outside London, but Harry has not confirmed it and both a Sussex representative and Buckingham Palace have declined comment.

Markets

Aschenbrenner Invests $400 Million After Fund Rout

Leopold Aschenbrenner returned to investing days after marrying Avital Balwit, following a 67% July loss that forced his AI-focused fund Situational Awareness to sell most of its public stocks, repay lenders and remove leverage.

Culture

Burgas wins Eurovision 2027 hosting rights

Burgas will host Eurovision 2027 after beating Sofia in a four-city contest, leaving Bulgaria's Black Sea city to turn a winning bid into a working international event.

People & Events

Travis Kelce confirms marriage to Taylor Swift

Travis Kelce has personally confirmed his marriage to Taylor Swift, more than a month after her publicist announced their Madison Square Garden wedding.

Culture

House of the Dragon sets 2028 ending

HBO's Game of Thrones prequel ended its third season on August 9, 2026, with one final eight-episode season already planned.

Culture

Rockstar Gives Netflix Six-Hour GTA VI Lead

Rockstar Games will premiere “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” on Netflix on August 27 at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, six hours before releasing it free elsewhere.

Culture

Aschenbrenner and Balwit confirm Carmel marriage

Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former researcher at AI company OpenAI who founded Situational Awareness, a private AI-focused investment fund, and Avital Balwit, chief of staff to Dario Amodei, CEO of AI developer Anthropic, are married.

Film & TV

Pixar sets June 19 screen battle

Disney pits classic toys against a smart tablet to test whether moviegoers still care about playroom plastic.