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Boston – – September 22, 2026 -- NWEA has released an enhanced free online tool that lets students as young as sixth grade convert their MAP Growth assessment scores into projected ACT and SAT scores and matching college admissions data.

Tool converts middle-school test scores into projected SAT and ACT results

The NWEA College Explorer allows students to enter current MAP Growth scores and see estimated performance on the ACT and SAT, then generates a list of post-secondary institutions that have historically admitted students with similar scores. The organization cited one example: a seventh grader scoring 222 on the fall MAP Growth math assessment is projected to meet the SAT math benchmark expected at most colleges and universities, but fall short of the comparable ACT math benchmark.

Trebinje – – September 22, 2026 -- The newly completed Trebinje Hospital in Bosnia and Herzegovina represents a $75.4 million (€65 million / ≈128 million BAM) investment by the Government of Republika Srpska, marking the largest healthcare infrastructure project in eastern Herzegovina's recent history.

Facility spans 17,500 m2 with 223 beds and six operating rooms

Located in the Pridvorci neighborhood of Trebinje, a city of roughly 32,000 residents, the hospital was completed at the end of 2025. The 17,500 m2 facility includes advanced diagnostic equipment such as MRI and CT scanners, along with fully equipped emergency and intensive care units.

Cham, Switzerland – September 22, 2026 -- EYKON has agreed to sell its water meter business to Sensus International, with both companies operating under the AURELIUS Midmarket portfolio.

EYKON sharpens focus on advanced metering and connectivity after divesting water unit

The transaction allows EYKON to concentrate resources on areas where it holds established scale, long-standing customer relationships and leading market positions. EYKON, formerly the Landis+Gyr EMEA business, serves customers across more than 75 markets and supports over 100 million connected endpoints. The deal marks a further step in the company's portfolio evolution following its earlier expansion into the water sector.

London – September 22, 2026 -- Nice has formalized its entry into the European hostile vehicle mitigation (HVM) market, rolling out CE-certified products from its HySecurity division after previously supplying the region only on a project-by-project basis.

Nice Establishes Structured European Route to Market for HySecurity

HySecurity, acquired by Nice in 2016, brings more than 60 years of expertise in hydraulic gate operators and crash-rated barriers for airports, government facilities and data centres. Nice will now support the division with local commercial and technical teams alongside its existing network of installers and system integrators, moving away from ad hoc project sales.

Breda, Netherlands – September 22, 2026 -- Light electric vehicles (LEVs) such as e-scooters, e-cargo bikes and fatbikes could reduce car dependency in the Netherlands but are simultaneously raising cycling accident risk on the country's shared bike paths, according to research from Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas).

Dutch cycling network faces new pressure from electric micro-mobility

The Netherlands operates the world's most extensive cycling infrastructure, with 22 million bicycles serving 18 million residents across a 153,000-kilometre network. Bikes account for 28% of all trips nationally, a model increasingly studied and replicated by cities globally. That system is now being tested by a growing volume of LEVs entering the same narrow cycle paths.

Anyang – September 22, 2026 -- Anyang Indorama Gases Co., Ltd. has signed an RMB 2.4 billion (c. US$358 million) long-term loan facility with five banks to fund a Phase II fertilizer capacity expansion in Anyang City, Henan Province, China.

Financing will double urea capacity to 2 million tonnes annually by 2029

The subsidiary of Singapore-based Indorama Corporation Pte. Ltd. will use the loan to partially fund construction that will double its urea fertilizer capacity, produced from syngas and ammonia, to approximately 2 million tonnes per annum by 2029. The project follows Indorama's acquisition of the Anyang nitrogen fertilizer business earlier in 2026 and marks a brownfield expansion of its Chinese operations.

Stockholm – September 22, 2026 -- Essity will publish its interim report for the third quarter of 2026 on October 22 at approximately 07:00 CET, the hygiene and health company confirmed.

CEO and CFO to host live webcast at 09:00 CET

President and CEO Ulrika Kolsrud, together with EVP and CFO Fredrik Rystedt, will present the results via a live webcast and teleconference at 09:00 CET the same day. The session will remain available for on-demand viewing after the live broadcast concludes.

Dial-in access offered across three regions

Investors and analysts seeking to participate in the question-and-answer session can join via dedicated conference lines in the UK, the United States, and Sweden. Essity has instructed participants to call in ahead of the scheduled start and identify themselves as joining the "Essity" call.

Uppsala, Sweden – September 22, 2026 -- Beactica Therapeutics AB has initiated IND-enabling studies for BEA-17, a first-in-class oral degrader targeting the epigenetic regulators LSD1 and CoREST, moving the glioblastoma therapy toward first-in-human trials.

Beactica targets a cancer with 15-month median survival and no new treatment in over two decades

Glioblastoma remains the most common and aggressive primary brain tumour, with a median overall survival of approximately 15 months. Standard of care has stayed essentially unchanged for more than 20 years, and immunotherapies successful against other cancers have consistently failed against GBM's immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment.

Budapest – September 22, 2026 -- South Korean biopharmaceutical company PharmaResearch officially launched its REJURAN portfolio of polynucleotide (PN)-based skin boosters in Hungary, marking its latest expansion move in Europe's aesthetic medicine market.

Symposium at Budapest museum draws 100 aesthetic medicine professionals

The launch event was held on September 14 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, marking REJURAN's first collaboration with the institution. Approximately 100 dermatologists, plastic surgeons and other aesthetic medicine specialists attended the symposium, which featured seven speakers from Korea, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, including Korean key opinion leaders Dr. Hyun Jun Park and Dr. Kyu Ho Lee.

London – September 22, 2026 -- accesso Technology Group plc (AIM: ACSO) has introduced agentic AI capabilities within its accesso Intelligence platform, allowing visitor attraction operators to convert conversational queries into automated, recurring analytical workflows.

New agentic tools automate monitoring, forecasting and reporting across attraction operations

The update adds three connected capabilities: agentic skills for multi-step performance monitoring and issue detection; agentic automations that schedule or trigger analyses and result distribution; and agentic reporting and forecasting that builds custom, adaptive reports rather than static daily outputs.

Hyderabad – September 22, 2026 -- Hyderabad-based deeptech firm Hylenr has completed Phase 1 independent validation testing of its Lattice Confinement Fusion (LCF) reactor at Texas A&M University's Nuclear Engineering Department, detecting elevated helium and argon signals two to three orders of magnitude above background levels.

Texas A&M tests reveal anomalous gas and thermal signatures in BRT-NiUCS-2 reactor

The study, titled 'Validation of Anomalous Heat and Nuclear Signatures in the BRT-NiUCS-2 Reactor: Phase 1 LCF Investigation,' examined the hydrogen-loaded nickel-palladium catalyst reactor using thermal measurement, residual gas analysis, radiation monitoring and post-reaction material characterization. Residual Gas Analysis via an SRS RGA 100 system under high-vacuum conditions found no corresponding rise in nitrogen, ruling out atmospheric leakage as the sole cause of the elevated helium, argon and neon readings.

Bucharest – September 22, 2026 -- Temu has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Association of Business Service Leaders in Romania (ABSL), the country's leading body representing shared services, business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing and R&D companies.

Temu joins ABSL as an official E-commerce Partner

Under the agreement, Temu will take part in ABSL's programs and events, engaging directly with the association's network of startups and multinationals operating across shared services, BPO, ITO and R&D in Romania. Temu will also provide expertise and in-kind support to ABSL initiatives.

Los Angeles – September 22, 2026 -- Creator TV, the streaming network owned by Sabio Holdings (TSXV: SBIO) (OTCQB: SABOF), reported its audience grew 4.8 times year-to-date through August 2026, hitting a record 305,000 unique viewers that month.

Audience growth accelerates as average monthly viewership climbs 138% year-over-year

Sabio's App Science analytics platform found Creator TV viewers are 2.5 times more likely to stream sports content than average audiences, a data point the company says explains the crossover between creator-economy fans and sports viewership.

Gothenburg, Sweden – September 22, 2026 -- Volvo Cars has become the lead industry partner for Horizon, an open-source software development platform built by Accenture and Google Cloud to speed up car software engineering for Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS).

Volvo Cars migrates global AAOS development to the new platform

As lead partner, Volvo Cars is moving its entire global AAOS software development environment onto Horizon, gaining access to cloud-native development tools, virtual testing environments and AI-assisted workflows. Gregor Zetsche, Head of Connected Experience at Volvo Cars, said the platform lets engineers directly tackle their toughest engineering challenges and deliver new experiences faster.

Stockholm – September 22, 2026 -- Skanska has signed a USD 84 million contract, about SEK 780 million, with an existing client to construct a data center in Georgia, USA, with the value booked into the company's US order intake for the third quarter of 2026.

Facility spans 22,700 square meters with 48 MW of designed capacity

The project covers approximately 22,700 square meters (244,730 square feet) and includes five colocation data halls plus administrative space. The build is engineered to support 48 MW of capacity.

Skanska's scope covers full delivery from civil works to commissioning

The contract encompasses civil, structural, utilities, electrical, mechanical, security, interior amenities and fit-out work, along with commissioning of major equipment through project completion.

Toronto – September 22, 2026 -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office has allowed BiomeRenewables Inc.'s Application No. 18/942094, covering the serration structure behind its FeatherEdge® wind turbine blade technology, the Canadian cleantech firm announced.

Patent covers owl-inspired serration design that cuts turbine noise

The application, titled "STRUCTURE WITH SERRATIONS ADAPTED TO TRAVERSE A FLUID ENVIRONMENT," protects Biome's double-dip serration design modeled on the silent flight of owls. The technology reduces aerodynamic noise from wind turbine blades while increasing power output, according to the company.

Suzhou – September 22, 2026 -- Boomray Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. has signed an exclusive global license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG for an undisclosed preclinical radioligand therapy (RLT) asset, with total deal value reaching up to USD 900 million.

Novartis secures rights to undisclosed preclinical oncology asset

Under the agreement, BoomRay will be eligible to receive an upfront payment plus development, regulatory, and sales milestone payments totaling up to USD 900 million. The Suzhou-based company will also earn royalties on future global net sales of the licensed program.

Boston – September 22, 2026 -- Women in perimenopause or menopause represent an estimated $350 billion in unmet demand within the global longevity market, according to a new Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study covering roughly 1 billion women worldwide already spending on longevity products and services.

Women outspend every other demographic on longevity but remain equally dissatisfied

The BCG report, titled "The $350 Billion Longevity Mismatch in Women's Health," surveyed 10,608 people across 12 countries for the St. Moritz Longevity Forum. Women in perimenopause or menopause spend a median $84 a month on longevity interventions, compared with $68 for other women and $73 for men. Roughly a third of these women said they would spend $108 a month if a product or service delivered visible results.

Bardstown, Ky. – September 22, 2026 -- CaskX closed out its presence at the 2026 Kentucky Bourbon Festival with 2,354 spins recorded on its World Famous CaskX Bourbon Wheel, capped by a single attendee winning an entire barrel of 2026 Jackson Purchase bourbon.

Saturday spins hit a one-day record of 1,140 as rare pours drew crowds

Friday produced 698 spins before Saturday set a new one-day high of 1,140, according to CaskX. Guests sampled a rotating lineup of rare, limited and sold-out whiskeys over the three-day event, including six bottles of Pappy Van Winkle.

Beijing – September 22, 2026 -- China's AI-powered meteorological early-warning system "MAZU" has been deployed for cloud-based trials in more than 40 countries, including Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Solomon Islands, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Djibouti, since its 2025 launch.

China Meteorological Administration unveils AI system as first tool under UN Early Warnings for All initiative

Released by the China Meteorological Administration at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, "MAZU" combines AI-based forecasting models, Fengyun satellite data, multi-source monitoring products and cloud computing infrastructure into a single early-warning platform. The system offers both standardized menu-style solutions and customized configurations for country-specific disaster risks.