35 years since Linux 0.01: the public beginning of a kernel that changed technology
17 September 2026 marks 35 years since version 0.01 of the Linux kernel, a milestone in the history of modern...
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43 years since Vanessa Williams became the first African American woman named Miss America
17 September 2026 marks 43 years since Vanessa Williams became the first African American woman to be named Mi...
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International Coastal Cleanup mobilises volunteers against waste entering waterways
On Saturday, 19 September 2026, communities in more than 100 countries are expected to join the International...
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International Red Panda Day: an emblematic species threatened by habitat loss
International Red Panda Day falls in 2026 on Saturday, 19 September, the month’s third Saturday, as a global d...
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343 years since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s letter describing microorganisms from dental material
17 September 2026 marks 343 years since a letter from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek to Francis Aston, secretary of t...
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FIESTA! opens a day celebrating Latin American culture in Winston-Salem
Downtown Winston-Salem hosts the 34th FIESTA! on Saturday, 19 September 2026, a one-day festival organised by...
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London Design Festival enters its final weekend with exhibitions and installations across the city
London Design Festival enters the final weekend of its 2026 edition, which runs from 12 to 20 September across...
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Novartis ends development of experimental ALS treatment after trial failure
Novartis has stopped development of VHB937, also known as lifonebart, for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis after...
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Google backs its largest carbon-removal agreement in Brazil
On 16 September Google announced its largest carbon-removal agreement, with Terradot, covering more than 200,0...
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FoodieLand arrives at Charlotte Motor Speedway from 18 to 20 September
FoodieLand opens at Charlotte Motor Speedway for a weekend of food, shopping and entertainment. The event runs...
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87 years since the Soviet invasion of Poland: 17 September 1939 and the opening of a second front
17 September 2026 marks 87 years since Soviet troops entered eastern Poland. The attack left the Polish state...
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Walton-on-the-Naze turns its coastline into a festival of art, music and community
Walton-on-the-Naze, a seaside town in Essex, hosts Between the Tides from 17 to 20 September, a festival using...
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Abergavenny Food Festival opens this weekend as producers, chefs and food writers gather in Wales
Abergavenny is preparing for a weekend devoted to food as its Food Festival returns on 19 and 20 September. T...
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York begins ten days devoted to food as its Food & Drink Festival opens on 18 September
York Food & Drink Festival begins on Friday, 18 September and continues through 27 September, bringing ten day...
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Three stages and around 20 artists as free Septembre Indien festival returns to Ménilmontant
Paris’s Ménilmontant neighbourhood hosts the fifth Septembre Indien festival on 19 and 20 September, a free ev...
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V&A stays open until 22:00 on Friday for Friday Late: Awakenings
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum hosts Friday Late: “Awakenings” on Friday, 18 September at V&A South Kensi...
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Bermondsey Street Festival marks 20 years on Saturday as the street closes to traffic
Bermondsey Street in south London will close to traffic on Saturday, 19 September for the anniversary edition...
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Bucharest International Poetry Festival continues with writers from Romania and abroad
Bucharest is hosting the 16th edition of its International Poetry Festival from 14 to 20 September, bringing R...
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British Science Festival continues in Southampton with around 100 free events through 20 September
Southampton is hosting the British Science Festival 2026 through Sunday, 20 September, one of Europe’s longest...
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Europe to identify 100 of its most climate-vulnerable territories under new resilience framework
The European Commission will present a new climate-resilience framework in October 2026, intended to identify...
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Oktoberfest 2026 opens in Munich on Saturday with the first keg tapped at noon
Munich is preparing to open Oktoberfest 2026 on Saturday 19 September at the Theresienwiese. The festival runs...
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Nearly 1.4 million butterflies and moths counted in Britain, but bumper summer may hide a risk for 2027
Britain’s hot, sunny summer of 2026 put plenty of butterflies in gardens, and the Big Butterfly Count recorded...
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Starbucks considers selling majority stake in Japan business valued at around $3 billion
Starbucks is considering selling a majority stake in its Japan business in a potential deal that could value t...
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NASA discovers mysterious new class of cosmic objects as 84 unusual X-ray sources are found across six galaxies
Astronomers have identified a class of cosmic objects unlike previously known X-ray sources. Using data from N...
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214 years since Napoleon's army occupied Moscow: the victory that turned into one of his greatest disasters
On 14 September 1812, after months of advancing through the Russian Empire and only a week after the bloody Ba...
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European leaders to meet in Finland over the Arctic's future, with Romania's Nicușor Dan attending Rovaniemi summit
Northern Europe will become the setting for an important meeting on the future of Europe's Arctic strategy ove...
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Yaroslava Mahuchikh wins in Budapest with 1.99m as Olympic champion takes Ultimate Championship title
Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh won the women's high jump at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship...
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WHO resumes negotiations on one of the key components of the Pandemic Agreement
The World Health Organization enters a new round of talks on 14 September on one of the most important and sen...
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Moldova to host European meeting in Chișinău focused on foreign interference and public administration
Chișinău will host the 15th annual CORLEAP meeting on Monday, 14 September 2026, under the Eastern Partnership...
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London opens its doors as Open House Festival 2026 begins with hundreds of buildings and spaces to explore
London becomes a vast public architecture museum from today, 12 September, as Open House Festival 2026 — the 3...
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Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's atmosphere again as NASA awaits new solar data
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed another encounter with the Sun, once again flying through the solar co...
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UK steps up Bluetongue response as cases continue to rise in England
The UK government introduced measures on Friday 11 September 2026 to shorten the wait before Bluetongue cases...
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