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Martin Schulz's dream team for Euro 2016.

People living in the cities of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle & Gateshead and York will benefit from a new research and innovation initiative that puts them in the driving seat to help improve their cities’ health, wellbeing and prosperity as they face up to challenges of modern urban living.

Manuscript of ‘Chad Gadja’

Screen Australia and the Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced a financing incentive of more than $700,000 for three interactive digital media co-productions on 24 March. The Canada-Australia Interactive Digital Media Incentive supports projects that go beyond traditional screens, with content available across different media platforms.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with Red from the ‘Angry Birds’ who was appointed Honorary Ambassador for International Day of Happiness.

UNESCO and the European Commission are launching a project to develop cultural routes that would benefit from the power of World Heritage sites to attract tourists to promote other cultural assets such as museums and festivals, for example, along selected European itineraries.

Almost two years to the day after writer/director Julie Kalceff published the first seven-minute, self-funded episode of her drama Starting From … Now! on YouTube, the show is now moving to TV. It will screen on SBS 2 after its world premiere at the Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival in March.