Friday's Upbeat News
- Editor OGN Daily
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Celebrating the end of the week with a global round up of positive news stories.
Artemis II
NASA has announced that it hopes to send astronauts on a ten-day trip around the Moon as soon as February. The US space agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April but said it aims to bring the mission forward. It's been 50 years since any country has flown a crewed lunar mission. Nasa will send four astronauts there and back to test systems. The Artemis II mission is the second launch of the Artemis programme, whose aim is to land astronauts and eventually establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface.
Visual Memoir
Annie Lennox‘s career spans nearly 50 years, and a new book looks back at her decades as a force in music and culture. Rather than a traditional memoir, Annie Lennox: Retrospective is a “visual memoir,” with dozens of photos and images from her time in Eurythmics and as a solo artist. Surprisingly, this is Lennox’s first and only official book. The career-spanning retrospective highlights Lennox’s unique sense of style and her performances, including her distinctive androgynous look. The hardcover coffee table book chronicles her life and career in chronological order, with sections divided by decade.
Precious Hoard
Archaeologists have uncovered a precious hoard of bronze ornaments that were buried for safekeeping almost 3,000 years ago. Nine neatly-packed items, including six bracelets, were unearthed along with evidence of several Bronze Age houses at a building site in Rosemarkie, a small village on the Moray Firth in northern Scotland. Archaeologists said analysis suggested the hoard's original owners had only intended to keep the items hidden temporarily - but never came back to reclaim them.
Top Seller
Michelob Ultra has become the top-selling beer in the US two year's after its parent company's Bud Light brand lost the title following a consumer backlash. Anheuser-Busch, citing data from Circana, says that Michelob Ultra overtook Modelo Especial in US retail sales by volume in the year to 14 September.
Transformative Effect
Cheap supplies of a groundbreaking twice-yearly HIV prevention jab will be available in many poorer countries within two years, funders have promised. Lenacapavir will cost $40 a patient a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries from 2027, under two agreements with generic drug manufacturers announced this week. Last year there were 1.3m new HIV infections globally and experts have said that lenacapavir, as a preventive drug or “pre-exposure prophylaxis”, could have a transformative effect on that figure. The drug, given as an injection every six months, almost completely prevented new cases of HIV in clinical trials. The World Health Organization recommended it as a preventive drug in July, with the director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, describing it as “the next best thing” to an HIV vaccine.
Clean Energy Investment
Investment in renewable energy has continued to increase around the world despite moves by Donald Trump’s White House to cancel and derail low-carbon projects. In the first half of 2025, investment globally in renewable technologies grew by about 10 percent on the same period last year, according to a report from the Zero Carbon Analytics thinktank. Investment in clean energy around the world this year is likely to hit about $2.2 trillion.
"Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you - a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you." Ray Charles
On This Day
26 September 1960: The first in a series of historic televised debates (seen by some 85 to 120 million viewers) between U.S. presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon was broadcast
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Mood Boosting Video
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