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• Netflix is partnering with digital publishers to feature Billboard videos and other short-form content on its platform starting next month. • The new offerings will cover a diverse range of categories, including entertainment, food, travel, fashion, design, and wellness. • This initiative is part of Netflix's broader strategic mission to expand its content library beyond traditional series and films.

• Jack Zhang, an associate professor of political science at the University of Kansas, published a new study analyzing news trends in the People’s Daily newspaper. • The research reveals that foreign news coverage has significantly decreased during President Xi Jinping’s administration. • These findings suggest that China's state media is driven more by domestic political priorities than by the country's expanding international interests.

• The ICH has introduced a new standardized framework for clinical trial protocols consisting of a harmonized guideline, a protocol template, and a technical specification for electronic exchange. • These documents apply to all phases and therapeutic areas of interventional clinical trials, including pharmaceuticals, biologics, vaccines, and cell or gene therapy products. • This initiative matters as it streamlines the format and content of protocols, facilitating more efficient data exchange and regulatory consistency across global jurisdictions.

Exclusive: Until now nothing was known about ‘Jersey’, depicted with naval officer, but research raises hopes he may have won freedomFor hundreds of years, he was known only as “Jersey”, an enslaved boy of about 11 rendered in oil on canvas by the great 18th-century portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.But now the life of the youngster, believed to be Reynolds’ earliest depiction of a person of colour, has begun to emerge, thanks to a research project. Continue reading...