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As part of Billboard's Fan Army Face-Off 2015, we've asked people to write about what being part of the fandom means to them. Read below for an essay...

iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending August 17, 2015: iTunes Movies US Charts 1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. Hot Pursuit (2015) 3. The Divergent Series: Insurgent 4. Home 5. Still Alice 6. I Am Chris Farley 7. Aloha 8. True Story 9. Ex Machina 10. Cop Car iTunes Movies US Charts - Independent 1. Still Alice 2. Ex Machina 3. Cop Car 4. Unfriended (2014) 5. Dark Places 6. Before We Go 7. Woman In Gold 8. The Salvation 9. The Escort 10. Every Secret Thing ___ (copyright) 2015 Apple Inc.

Lord Coe and Sergey Bubka are urged to focus on anti-doping if elected president of athletics' world governing body, the IAAF.

Producer and Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and his wife, former ambassador Nicole Avant, have put their home in the Beverly Hills flats area on the market for $9.35 million.

The wildfires torching the West have gotten so bad that the nation's military has stepped in.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Robert Menendez on Tuesday became the second Democratic senator to oppose President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

NEW YORK - Biotech drugmaker Amgen will pay $71 million to settle an investigation into illegal marketing of its drugs Aranesp and Enbrel, ending an investigation by 48 states and Washington DC.

The 12-year-old girl said she had been raped by a foreign soldier, one of many who had come to Central African Republic to calm sectarian violence. So the military commander brought her in front of a dozen of his soldiers and asked: Can you identify him?

As part of Billboard's Fan Army Face-Off 2015, we've asked people to write about what being part of the fandom means to them. Read below for an essay...

Police apparently found the abusive parrot hilarious, but nevertheless treated the incident seriously.

Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich are engaged! Hough, two-time champion and judge on Dancing With the Stars, has sweet moves on the dance floor, and Laich, star centre for the Washington...

Hillary Clinton continues to run a stealth presidential campaign in these parts, with unannounced fundraising forays: The latest private event guest is 2004 Democratic presidential hopeful and ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. The “Deaniac” once drew 8,000 people to a Westlake rally during his nationwide “Sleepless Summer” tour 12 years ago.  He was the hero of liberals then, the candidate who boasted of representing “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.” Although officially an independent, and self-described “democratic socialist”... Читать дальше...

BEIJING — Chinese authorities have identified 10 senior executives of the company that owns the warehouses involved in explosions nearly a week ago in the northern port city of Tianjin, local media reported Tuesday, shortly after the national anticorruption agency announced it was investigating the head of the country’s work safety regulator. According to the state-owned newspaper Tianjin Daily, Yu Xuewei, chairman of the Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Company, was detained along with the vice chairman Dong Shexuan... Читать дальше...

As a number of separate events in recent years, from the killing of an unarmed black Florida teenager to the shooting at a Chattanooga military training base, raise the level of public discourse on discrimination across the United States, two men at the center of these controversies have joined forces to counter a much-needed dialogue on tolerance.

Ebbsfleet's game against Weston-super-Mare on Tuesday night had to be abandoned with Daryl McMahon's side leading 2-0.

Back when she was part of Amazon's Seattle-based retail team, associate vendor manager Ling Lin recalls pulling 24-hour shifts during frantic shopping holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. She watched co-workers engage in screaming matches and once saw a colleague steal the credit for her work. “I did not feel that it fostered a collaborative work environment,” Lin, 25, told International Business Times.

We know Romelu Lukaku made the team after his Player of the Week performance, but who are the other 10?

The United States is considering to allocate an additional $20 million in defense assistance to Georgia, the US Department of Defense announced in a release on Tuesday.

A report released Tuesday faulted Special Operations Forces leadership at a small outpost near Kandahar, Afghanistan, for missing signs of potential violence in Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales before his March 2012 massacre that left 16 civilians dead.

A political furore erupted a day after TOI reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) found the three Delhi discoms had inflated dues by Rs 8,000 crore.

To ensure easy availability of blood all over the state, Punjab State Blood Transfusion Council is starting an SMS service from Wednesday in which all information regarding the stock kept at blood banks will be provided through SMS.

Tired with the MC's lack of action in ensuring sanitation at Sarabha Nagar main market, a market association of the area has inaugurated its own dump to get rid of the littering problem faced in the market.

Fitch Ratings on Tuesday upgraded Greece's credit rating one notch to CCC from CC, citing the finalization last week of a rescue deal between Athens and its eurozone creditors. An initial disbursement of 23 billion euros, or $25.6 billion, this week will ease the "acute liquidity strain" of recent months, covering the repayment of 3.2 billion euros of bonds held by the European Central Bank due on Thursday as well as a European Financial Stabilization Mechanism bridge loan maturing in September, the ratings firm said. Читать дальше...

The proposal would cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent over the next decade.