Science and scholarship led the day with a striking literary discovery: researchers in Dublin, working from digitized images of a medieval manuscript held in Rome, say they have identified what may be the oldest surviving poem in English, a reminder of how major finds now emerge as much from screens as from archives. In medicine, the University of Sydney became the first in Australia to adopt a new postgraduate training model, signaling another push to rethink how future doctors are prepared. Elsewhere, institutions confronted both present and past responsibilities. In Nigeria, Osun State moved to revive its Safe School Initiative after kidnappings in neighboring Oyo, underscoring the urgency of student security. And in Edinburgh, the Church of Scotland formally apologized for its historic links to slavery, acknowledging a painful legacy that continues to demand public reckoning.