" 🟢 France’s Prime Minister Leaves: France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a vote in Parliament and has to leave his job. People are upset, and President Macron will pick a new leader soon.

🇯🇵 Japan’s Leader Steps Down: Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stepped down after less than a year because his party lost many seats in elections. Other leaders will try to take over.

🎉 Thailand Has a New Leader: Anutin Charnvirakul became Thailand’s new Prime Minister. He will have new elections in four months.

💬 Many Challenges: All three countries now have leaders who need to work with divided groups in Parliament.

🌊 Big Dam Opened: Ethiopia opened Africa’s largest dam, called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile River.

⚡ More Electricity: The dam will make lots of electricity for millions of people in Ethiopia and even sell some to nearby countries.

😃 Pride for Ethiopia: Ethiopians built the dam mostly with their own money, and leaders say it shows they can achieve big goals.

😟 Worries for Neighbors: Egypt and Sudan are worried the dam might cause less water or floods since they depend on the Nile.

🦟 Mosquitoes like certain humans more! Scientists at a music festival studied which people mosquitoes bite most.

🍺 Beer makes you more attractive. People who drank beer got more mosquito attention than those who didn’t.

😴 Sleeping near someone also helps mosquitoes. They seemed to like people who had slept close to others the night before.

☀️ Sunscreen keeps mosquitoes away. Volunteers who wore sunscreen were about half as likely to be bitten.

🐙 Octopuses have 8 arms that are super flexible, and each arm can do lots of different jobs!

🔍 Front arms explore the ocean floor, grab things, and check out their surroundings, while the back arms help them move.

🏃 Back arms help with movement, like pushing, rolling, or crawling along the sand, acting like tiny conveyor belts.

🌀 All arms are smart multitaskers, able to bend, twist, stretch, and shorten in different ways, sometimes even doing several actions at once!

🌟 Holograms on Phones! Scientists found a new way to make holograms, which are 3D images that float in the air, using tiny screens called OLEDs.

💡 Tiny Light Tricks They mix OLEDs with special layers called metasurfaces, which are super thin and can bend light to make pictures appear like magic.

💰 Cheaper and Smaller This new method is easier, smaller, and cheaper than the old laser way, so one day phones and games could show cool 3D images.

🎮 Fun Uses Holograms could be used for gaming, virtual reality, phones, and even cool science tools like microscopes.

🌟 Google’s new app Gemini became the most downloaded on the Play Store, beating ChatGPT, because of its super fun Nano Banana AI tool.

🍌 The Nano Banana AI lets kids and grown-ups create and edit pictures, turning them into cool 3D-like figurines or mixing styles like magic.

📱 Gemini connects with Google tools like Gmail, Docs, and Slides, making it easy to write, edit, and create right inside the apps people already use.

🎨 In just 2 weeks, people made and edited more than 500 million pictures with Nano Banana, making it go viral on social media.

🪨 Scientists studied a Stone Age burial site in Latvia and found special stone tools buried with both men and women.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People used to think only men hunted and built things, while women cooked and cared for families, but the tools show women did these jobs too.

🔍 Using microscopes, researchers discovered the tools were used for working with animal skins, which came from hunting.

👩‍🔧 The tools were sometimes buried even more often with women than men, showing they were skilled hunters and tool users.

🧬 Tiny glowing protein: Scientists made a super small protein that can glow and act like a quantum bit, or “qubit.”

🌡️ Senses inside cells: This protein could help measure things like temperature and magnetic fields right inside cells.

💡 Quantum magic: The protein can be in two states at once, like magic 0s and 1s, which makes it special for science experiments.

🧪 Works in living cells: Researchers made the protein work in human and bacterial cells, even at warmer temperatures than usual for qubits.

🏃 Big Race in Tokyo! The 2025 World Athletics Championships are happening in Tokyo, Japan, where athletes run, jump, and throw to see who’s the fastest and strongest.

🇬🇧 Team GB Stars! Great Britain won 10 medals last time, including golds for Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Josh Kerr, and their athletes are competing again this year.

📅 Dates to Watch! The championships started on September 13 and will finish on September 21, with lots of exciting events each day at Japan’s big National Stadium.

⏰ When to Tune In! In the UK, you can watch events starting midnight, 9:30am, or early morning depending on the day.

🎮 Super Mario turned 40! He first appeared in 1981 in a game called Donkey Kong, not in his own game. Back then, he was called Jumpman and even Mr Video!

🔧 Mario is most famous as a plumber, but he’s also tried many other jobs like a doctor, race car driver, footballer, and even martial artist in different games.

👨‍🦱 Mario’s moustache and hat were designed because old video games couldn’t show mouths or hair very well. His look made him easier to draw and super iconic.

🎥 Mario has been in movies too! A 1993 live-action film wasn’t very popular, but kids loved the 2023 animated movie.