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Hamburg – September 16, 2026 -- NDR secured four Deutsche Fernsehpreis 2026 awards across satire, documentary and fiction categories, the German public broadcaster confirmed.

Satire team wins Best Entertainment Script for October 2025 extra 3 episode

Dietmar Jacobs and Christian Ehring received the Best Entertainment Script award for the September 16, 2026 extra 3 episode titled "Streit ums Stadtbild – Merz poltert." Extra 3, hosted by Ehring, marks its 50th anniversary in 2026 with a lineup expansion that adds comedian Michael Mittermeier, entertainer Riccardo Simonetti and actress Collien Fernandes alongside existing cast members Oliver Kalkofe, Maxi Schafroth and Sarah Bosetti.

Hyderabad – – September 16, 2026 -- Indian deeptech firm Hylenr Technologies has detected signatures of 32 elements, including strategic rare earths such as yttrium and actinides such as uranium, inside post-operational samples from a hydrogen-loaded nickel-palladium lattice confinement system, opening a potential alternative route to producing strategic materials without mining.

HYDERABAD – September 16, 2026 -- Indian deep-tech firm Hylenr Technologies has detected signatures corresponding to 32 elements -- including rare earth metal yttrium, noble gases and the actinide uranium -- inside artificially engineered metal lattice structures, opening a potential manufacturing route for strategic materials that bypasses traditional mining.

Munich – September 16, 2026 -- Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2026 in the "Best Entertainment Reality" category for "Werwölfe - Das Spiel von List und Täuschung," a reality gameshow co-produced with SWR and WDR for the ARD Mediathek streaming platform.

Season one drew 5.9 million streams on ARD Mediathek

The format, produced by ITV Studios Germany under BR's lead responsibility, generated 5.9 million retrievals since its debut, according to AGF Zensus and Global Views data. It had already received the German Entertainment Award in June.

Format is licensed from board game "Die Werwölfe von Düsterwald"

The show adapts the tabletop game created by Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly, published by Asmodee, with DreamSpark holding the licensing rights. The premise places 13 participants in a village setting, where three secretly designated werewolves attempt to eliminate other players without exposure.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- Veho has been named a finalist in the Logistics category of the 2026 BeautyMatter Awards, an industry recognition tied to its e-commerce delivery work for beauty and retail brands including Sephora.

Veho positions last-mile delivery as a growth driver, not a cost line

"Beauty brands obsess over every detail. E-commerce delivery deserves the same level of attention because it's one of the most tangible moments a customer has with your brand," said Catherine Dummitt, VP of Marketing at Veho. The company reports a 99% on-time delivery rate and a 4.9/5 customer satisfaction score across its retail partner base, which also includes Macy's, Lululemon, Stitch Fix and HelloFresh.

NEW YORK – September 16, 2026 -- Lynn Chen-Zhang, CEO of Zhang Financial, served as Co-Chair of the China Institute of America Centennial Grand Fashion Gala, held September 16, 2026, at The Pierre in New York City to mark the institute's 100th anniversary.

Gala draws top fashion designers and cultural leaders to mark 100-year milestone

The event was chaired by television personality and cultural ambassador Yue-Sai Kan, with designers Guo Pei and Vera Wang serving as Gala Ambassadors. Featured designers included Jason Wu, Vivienne Tam, Grace Chen and Laurence Xu. The gala also honored Fern Mallis, credited as the creator of New York Fashion Week.

Uniondale, N.Y. – September 16, 2026 -- Marquis Who's Who has included Monib A. Zirvi, MD, PhD, in its biographical volumes, recognizing more than two decades of work in dermatology and diagnostic genetics as a related patent dispute involving Illumina Inc. reaches final resolution.

Zirvi Has Practiced Dermatology at Summit Health Since 2004

Dr. Zirvi has served as a dermatologist with Summit Health and as an attending physician at Atlantic Health System's Overlook Medical Center since 2004, focusing on general dermatology, skin cancer detection and hair and nail disorders. Summit Health named him among its 2026 Castle Connolly Top Doctors. He is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology and holds a courtesy instructor appointment in microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he earned his MD and PhD.

Washington – September 16, 2026 -- Rural counties hosting AI data centers could pay every household between $4,500 and $8,900 a year without raising taxes or imposing new costs on developers, according to a report published by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI).

Local Opposition Now Outpaces Energy Supply as the Top Barrier to Data Center Construction

The number of local data center moratoria enacted across the U.S. rose from six in 2024 to 294 in 2026, the report states. A March Gallup poll found 71% of Americans would oppose an AI data center in their area, compared with 53% who would oppose a nuclear power plant nearby.

Paramus, N.J. – – September 15, 2026 -- A prespecified secondary analysis of the landmark FIBRES trial found that Octapharma's fibryga (fibrinogen [human]) cut 24-hour allogeneic blood-product transfusion requirements by 19% versus cryoprecipitate in two overlapping patient subgroups, according to findings published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.

Non-critical and elective surgery patients showed the sharpest transfusion reductions

Among 634 patients classified as non-critical before surgery -- 86% of the primary trial population -- those receiving fibryga required 13.6 blood-product units on average versus 16.2 units for cryoprecipitate recipients, a 19% relative reduction. In the 466-patient elective-surgery subgroup, representing 63% of the primary population, fibryga patients received 11.7 units compared with 14.4 units for cryoprecipitate, matching the 19% relative reduction.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Ormsby Park LLC has named Glenn Zweig as Partner, adding a specialist in CFO and senior executive placements for growth-stage and middle-market technology companies to its retained search practice.

Zweig brings a track record spanning private equity, venture capital and Fortune-level advisory work

Zweig joins from Artico, a boutique technology executive search firm, where he served as Senior Partner leading CFO and other C-suite searches. Before Artico, he was a leadership advisor at Egon Zehnder, where he was a core member of the firm's Financial Officers, Technology, and Private Equity Practice Groups and helped expand its CFO placement work across private equity- and venture-backed software and fintech companies.