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Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her representatives confirmed Tuesday. Parton passed away at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer, surrounded by family and friends. Her sudden death has sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry, prompting an outpouring of tributes from fans and fellow celebrities alike.

Iran and Oman are discussing a temporary transit corridor and mine-clearing for the Strait of Hormuz, but Tehran warned on Wednesday that the vital waterway will not be reopened unless the United States ends the war.

North Korea will send about 100 athletes to compete across 14 sports at the Asian Games in Japan next month, a senior official said, aiming to "bring joy to Marshal Kim Jong Un".

With Dolly Parton's "Jolene" filling the night air, fans of the late country music icon laid flowers at a Tennessee statue of the singer who changed their US state forever.

At a Washington gay bar, Cameron Austin donned a country western outfit replete with cowboy boots, as he sat in the corner sipping a drink while Dolly Parton's "When I'm Gone" blasted through the sound system.

Australian police said Wednesday they were on the hunt for thieves who made off with hundreds of thousands of oysters.

England will aim to put their latest drinking drama behind them when they face Pakistan in the second Test at Lord's starting on Thursday.

A surge in attacks across Thailand's south has put a spotlight on the low-level insurgency by Muslim separatists that has killed thousands of people in the last two decades.

A record number of Japanese players are in the Premier League this season, with clubs attracted by their proven quality, value for money and the "very little risk" involved in signing them.

Japanese Asian Games organisers said Wednesday they were holding "regular discussions" with Asian Olympic chiefs after a report claimed they had asked for the ballooning number of participants to be scaled back.

Asian stocks edged higher Wednesday as oil prices extended a decline on receding concerns about another military flare-up between the United States and Iran, while traders were also nervously awaiting Nvidia's earnings and key US inflation data.

Mathieu Comijn inspected rows of potatoes in a field of cracked earth and browned leaves, pulling from the ground tubers barely the size of ping-pong balls.

Sweat trickling down her face, aspiring teenage boxer Hoorain Zahra works on a punch combination, eager to follow in the footsteps of her idol Aliya Soomro.

Volunteers scanned the dried-up bank of the Danube in northern Bulgaria, close to where receding waters laid bare mammoth bones last month, hoping to find more fossilised fragments exposed by Europe's parching drought.

Anthropic, the OpenAI rival that bet everything on computer coding, is expected to go public within weeks in a listing that could eclipse SpaceX's record Wall Street debut in June.

When President Donald Trump returned to power last year, Julia Curlee, a longtime CIA analyst and transgender woman, opted to continue serving as a senior official at the White House despite right-wing attacks on trans issues.

Australian under-16s are increasing their use of social media apps such as Instagram and Tiktok despite a world-leading ban, data provided by a parental control software company showed Wednesday.

The video game industry is notoriously tight-lipped about its numbers, filled with members-only metrics like wishlists, pre-orders and player numbers, so it can be hard to know which games have actually proven popular and turned a profit.

Trailer dealers, distributors and fleet buyers can compare Gridko's bumper pull and gooseneck roll-off trailer configurations at Booth 114 in Nashville

Comprehensive On‑ and Off‑Track American Rebel Beer Activations Drive Fan Engagement and Retail ExpansionAmerican Rebel Light Beer Dodge//SRT Hellcat Secures the 2026 NHRA Brainerd Nationals Win

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / August 26, 2026 / Kidoz Inc. (TSXV:KDOZ)(OTCQB:KDOZF), a full-stack global advertising platform powered by contextual AI, enabling brand performance in mobile games without reliance on personal data, today announced its unaudited condensed interim financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2026. All amounts are presented in United States dollars and are in accordance with United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / August 26, 2026 / Blueberries Medical Corp. (CSE:BBM)(OTCID:BBRRF)(FRA:1OA) (the "Company" or "Blueberries"), a consumer science company focused on health, wellness and longevity, and a licensed producer of both psychoactive and non-psychoactive cannabis derivatives in Colombia, announces a non-brokered private placement consisting of the sale of 84,615,385 common shares ("Common Shares") at a price of C$0.013 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately C$1,100,000 (or approximately US$781,000) (the "Offering"). The net proceeds from the sale of the Common Shares are expected to fund and expand operations, for general corporate and working capital purposes.

Appointment comes as CURI enters next phase of growth following record financial performance

Live investor webinar rescheduled for September 24 at 4:15 p.m. ET

Company reviews methods designed to assist users in tracking visible skin changes over time with more accuracy.

Cloud-native platform provides the building blocks to create, connect and orchestrate modern media workflows using Telestream capabilities, third-party technologies, and AI. Experience UP at IBC2026.

The leading-edge Cognio C20 Smart Processor delivers award-winning distributed intelligence, industry-leading scalability, and processor-to-endpoint extensibility in a compact, flexibly deployable Intel® x86 platform

Proprietary Platform Highlights the Strength of a Single AI Vision System Serving Multiple Trillion Dollar Industries

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 26, 2026 / The obvious comparison is another streaming company. The more provocative comparison may be Spotify-not because FreeCast has Spotify's scale, revenue or maturity, but because Spotify demonstrated the extraordinary value that can emerge when a technology platform organizes a fragmented global media industry.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 26, 2026 / Emerging Growth Research today announced the release of its Fiscal Q1 2027 Quarterly Update on Virtuix Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:VTIX), reiterating its Buy-Emerging rating and 12-month price target of $9.00 per share, representing approximately 644% potential upside from the Company's August 25, 2026 closing price of $1.21.

Chairman and CEO Michael McLaren Outlines Olenox's Growth, Strategic Acquisitions and Vision for Powering the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure and High-Density Computing

Neonorm® Dog extends Jaguar's existing Neonorm product franchise beyond foals and calves to provide dog owners with access to a plant-based product designed to support normal stool consistency and GI fluid balance in dogsJaguar expects to make Neonorm Dog available through both Amazon and Chewy soon