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Mystery House

Tradition says that ghosts have fun at Halloween. But in San Jose, California, they have fun all year in a 160-room eccentric house built for them.

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Jane Goodall: Into the Heart of the Wild

On October 1, 2025, the Jane Goodall Institute announced the passing of its founder, Dame Jane Goodall, at the age of 91.  Ethologist, primatologist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace, she devoted more than six decades to studying chimpanzees.

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First Australian Art

The rooms of the Tate Modern are filled with the monumental art of Emily Kam Kngwarry, who depicted the life and beliefs of her Indigenous community in Australia's Northern Territory. Kngwarry came late to art and spent the last eight years of her long life producing giant paintings which are now considered the forefront of Australian art.

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Commonwealth Young Person of the Year 2025

The Commonwealth Youth Awards honour young people from around the world for their work trying to advance one or more of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This year's winner, Stanley Chidubem Anigbogu from Nigeria, founded an organisation to transform waste into solar energy for people who have limited access to energy. The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 countries, most of which have a connection to Britain through past colonisation. The Commonwealth Youth Awards are for young activists and social entrepreneurs aged 15-29. Like many people in Nigeria, Stanley Chidubem Anigbogu didn’t have reliable access to electricity when he was growing up. Trying to do homework after dark meant using candles or kerosene lamps, which are the source of many accidents, and air pollution in the case of kerosene. Stanley founded LightEd during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a small team of young people, he has trained 6,000 students and recycled over 20,000 kilograms of plastic and electronic waste. LightEd is doubly good for the environment because it creates clean energy while also getting rid of waste. Their Light for Peace project targets people living in Displaced Persons Camps, who have had to flee their homes because of conflict. LightEd provides them with solar lamps and also builds solar-powered recharging stations by reusing old plastic tiles. These have repurposed over 5 tons of plastic waste, preventing pollution and methane emissions from landfills. Stanley's vision is to expand LightEd’s reach beyond Nigeria, with a goal of impacting 5 million lives across Africa by 2030. “Youth-led climate action is not just about addressing today’s issues; it’s about ensuring a sustainable future for the next generation,” he says. LightEd plans to introduce more Avatar Stations in underserved regions, expand the Light for Peace initiative, and improve recycling processes to make renewable energy solutions even more affordable and accessible. “What drives me most is the belief that sustainable development can only be achieved when we prioritize the needs of marginalized communities, empowering them with the tools and knowledge to solve their own problems," he says Stanley Chidubem Anigbogu describing the LightEd project: https://youtu.be/zK7CiE90HEI The Finalists Meet the four other finalists from four global regions, and discover their varied projects. Europe and Canada: Zubair Junjunia – United Kingdom SDG 4: Quality education At the age of 16, Zubair founded ZNotes, an online learning platform promoting global educational equity. It has been accessed by six million students across more than 190 countries. Pacific: Bethalyn Kelly – Solomon Islands SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production Bethalyn is president of the Resilience Innovation and Social Change Girls Club (RISC-GC), where girls participate in a number of activities, including the removal of plastic waste from the environment and recycling it into strong and durable pavement bricks. Asia: Murad Ansary – Bangladesh SDG 3: Good health and well-being Murad, a clinical psychologist, has founded a digital solution platform for mental health and emotional well-being in a country where many people had no access to help with mental-health problems. Caribbean: Nicholas Kee – Jamaica SDG 14: Life below water Nicholas is co-founder and CEO of Kee Farms, a regenerative ocean farm network focused on growing seaweed, oysters and other organisms to reduce greenhouse gases and increase ocean biodiversity. You could use these examples to add to Shine Bright 3e File 4 Teen entrepreneurs or Snapfile 7 Dive into Barbados about ocean plastic recycling.

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Wicked for Good Video

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L’IA et l’emploi aux États-Unis d’Amérique

Le développement de l’IA bouleverse le marché du travail aux États-Unis alimentant de grandes craintes sur une possible explosion du chômage.

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En Russie, un espace numérique sous contrôle

La Russie accélère la construction d'un « internet souverain », avec pour conséquence des restrictions des libertés et une surveillance des populations. À l’heure d’un durcissement du régime russe, peut-on parler de « goulag numérique » ?

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Celebrate Poetry Day in the Classroom

This year's UK National Poetry Day is on 2 October. A great opportunity to get some poetry into your class, and to explore this year's theme: Play. In any case, every day is Poetry Day!

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Dinard British and Irish Film Festival 2025

The Dinard British and Irish Film Festival takes place from 1 to 5 October. There are five films in competition as well as a short-film section, documentaries and lots of special showings.

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Shein dans les centres-villes en France

L’annonce de l’installation de boutiques Shein dans des grandes enseignes françaises déclenche les passions. Les représentants de la marque aux pratiques éthiques douteuses, tentent de défendre leur point de vue.

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Les enjeux du commerce mondial du soja

Le soja est devenu un produit stratégique. Au cœur de la guerre commerciale sino-américaine, il illustre les tensions dans la mondialisation.

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Continuité territoriale : enjeux et défis

Les ultramarins font face à des frais de transport élevés pour rejoindre l’Hexagone.   Des aides à la mobilité existent mais sont insuffisantes. La France est-elle encore apte à assurer sa continuité territoriale ?

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Coyote

Avec Coyote,  Sylvain Prudhomme donne une voix aux oubliés de la frontière entre le Mexique et les États-Unis.

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Wednesday Addams and Mythological Creatures

The Netflix series Wednesday, now in its second season, draws upon the Addams Family cartoons created by Charles Addams in the 1930s. But it also takes inspiration from the abundant mythology of supernatural creatures in Western culture.

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Faustus in Africa

William Kentridge’s work draws on South African culture and history as well as classical influences. He plunges his audience into a multi-sensory experience combining theatre, dance, music, film, drawing and animation. His show Sibyl is presented at Châtelet in Paris.

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A Cinema Pioneer: Alice Guy

Alice Guy was one of the first and pioneering filmmakers, working in France and the U.S.A. at the beginning of cinema. Her contributions seemed to have been forgotten but she finally being recognised, with a retrospective at the Deauville Film Festival, a role in the Paris 2024 opening ceremony and an upcoming TV series devoted to her life and career. Guy was employed as a secretary by cinema pioneers the Gaumont brothers in 1894. Just two years later she persuaded them to let her make a 1-minute short, "The Cabbage-Patch Fairy", which is considered the first narrative film. This is a 1900 remake because the original film, along with many more of Guy's works, is lost: https://youtu.be/BMAsLtlJAQo Guy soon became head of production at Gaumont. She made over 200 films in ten years, experimenting with hand-coloured films and ones with a primitive form of synchronised sound. In 1907, she married cameraman Hubert Blaché and the couple moved to the United States. By 1910, Guy had started her own production company, Solax, in New Jersey. At that point the movie industry was based on the East coast, before the move to Hollywood. Solax was a success and Guy one of the leading filmmakers. But after 1920, she never made another film. Whether her husband's bad investments or sexism in the industry were to blame, she moved back to France with her children and her story was forgotten. She was awarded France's Legion of Honour in 1953, not long before her death in 1968. But interest grew in her story and in 2024 she was one of the ten pioneering women honoured with golden statues during the Paris Olympic opening ceremony. This year's Deauville Film Festival is showing a retrospective of six of her American productions. Her career on both sides of the Atlantic fit perfectly into the festival's ethos. And a TV series about Alice Guy's life is currently filming. The HBO-France Télévisions production stars Bérénice Bejo as the filmmaker. It should be on our screens in 2026. Find out more about Alice Guy in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqlD7RLoNAI   There is more about Alice Guy in the sequence on American Cities in our online DNL textbook History 1re .

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Le fonctionnement des agences de notation

Le 12 septembre 2025, l’agence Fitch a abaissé la note de la France à un "A+". Alors que la note souveraine française a été dégradée, on peut se demander comment fonctionnent les agences de notation mondiales et quels sont les enjeux de ces notes. 

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Deauville Festival Honors Paul Newman’s Centenary

Deauville Festival 2025 will honour the late Paul Newman’s centenary with a ceremony and film screenings, attended by his daughter Clea Newman. The 51th Deauville American Film Festival will dedicate a special ceremony to Paul Newman on Wednesday 10 September 2025, marking the centenary of his birth. This tribute will be attended by his daughter, Clea Newman, who has long been an ambassador for her father’s artistic and humanitarian legacy. Several of the actor’s landmark films will also be screened during the festival. Actor of legend, respected director, racing driver and philanthropist, Paul Newman (1925–2008) embodied the rare ability to combine celebrity with social engagement. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, Deauville has chosen to celebrate this figure of Hollywood. https://youtu.be/AzogcorjLOI?si=JG1ct528-DZzpffo Born on January 26, 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Newman began his career on stage, touring with theatre companies before moving to New York, where he appeared on Broadway and studied at Lee Strasberg’s Actors' Studio. His breakthrough came in 1958 with Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , directed by Richard Brooks, opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The role earned him his first Academy Award nomination. In 1961, he portrayed pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Felson in The Hustler by Robert Rossen, a role he would reprise twenty-five years later in Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money , which brought him the Oscar for Best Actor. Throughout his career, Newman worked with leading filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack, James Ivory, Joel Coen and Sam Mendes. Among his most celebrated roles are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Cool Hand Luke (1967), which cemented his reputation as one of the defining screen icons of his generation. https://youtu.be/ZSxMEV18Ugk?si=Yfsg7N--jLp3c_NE Directing Newman also directed several films. His debut, Rachel, Rachel (1968), starred his wife Joanne Woodward, received Academy Award nominations and won him a Golden Globe for Best Director. He went on to direct Sometimes a Great Notion (1971), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), Harry & Son (1984) and, returning to Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1987). This work confirmed his position as a versatile figure in American cinema. On the Track Away from the screen, Newman cultivated a passion for auto racing. He competed professionally from the early 1970s, participating in major endurance races such as Le Mans and Daytona, and co-owned the successful Newman/Haas Racing team in the CART series. This lifelong enthusiasm earned him respect as both a driver and a team owner in the motorsport community. Giving Back Beyond film and racing, Newman became known for his commitment to humanitarian causes. In 1982, he created Newman’s Own, a food company donating all profits to charity. Over the years, the foundation has distributed more than 600 million dollars to organisations worldwide. He also founded the SeriousFun Children’s Network, which offers free medically supervised camps for children with serious illnesses. In France, the organisation L’ENVOL, a member of this network, has since 1997 provided holidays and respite breaks to more than 40,000 children and their families. Newman was equally outspoken about social and political issues, supporting civil rights, environmental causes and progressive candidates. He also advocated for the rehabilitation of people struggling with alcoholism and drug addiction, underlining his belief in second chances and human dignity. The presence of Clea Newman will give the ceremony personal resonance. As custodian of her father’s legacy, she continues to promote the charitable projects he initiated, ensuring their relevance for new generations. https://youtu.be/cxKUupk0kbY?si=g7HJfF_N0fxaO8td https://youtu.be/YdJW2UxvSFQ?si=_1BIYpw9E6FqFiN-

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La carte de Mercator, une vision déformée du monde

La projection cartographique de Mercator agrandit les pays du Nord et réduit ceux du Sud. Dans l’optique de décoloniser la cartographie du monde, le projet Correct The Map promeut une représentation plus juste. Présentation d’un projet égalitaire.

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La dépendance des économies aux matières premières

Selon l'ONU, 103 pays, surtout en Afrique, sont fortement dépendants de leurs exportations de matières premières, ce qui accroit leur vulnérabilité. Alors que les inégalités entre pays augmentent, on se questionne sur l’impact de cette dépendance.  

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The Thursday Murder Club

Generally clubs and classes in retirement homes include things like baking, playing bridge or flower arranging. At Cooper's Chase retirement community, there is also the Thursday Murder Club. Richard Osman’s bestselling mystery novel is now a hit Netflix film.

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Les mutations des banques

Depuis le confinement et la digitalisation croissante des économies, de nombreuses agences bancaires ferment sur le territoire français. C’est également le cas des distributeurs automatiques de billets. L’arrivée de l’IA risque également de modifier les habitudes de ce secteur.

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La complexité de l’information face aux fake news

À une époque où la désinformation est croissante, croiser les sources pour vérifier les faits est essentiel. Mais la sélection et l’interprétation des informations par les médias influencent notre perception de la réalité.

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Deauville 2025: On the Boardwalk

The 49th edition of Deauville American Film Festival will run from September 1st to September 10th, 2023. The official competition jury will be presided by Guillaume Canet and the jury for "La Révélation" will be chaired by Mélanie Thierry.

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