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The social media giant is said to be in talks with several news publishers, offering to deliver their content quickly, in exchange for a certain loss of control over their readership.
Political correctness was a challenge to this author, but Twitter would have been much worse.
Iranâs usually vocal clerics and military commanders are heeding the call of the countryâs supreme leader, who has largely supported the negotiations.
Bess Wohlâs new play at Ars Nova follows six troubled souls through a weeklong intervention without words. Only their guru talks.
The pits where traders once bellowed out orders for wheat, corn and cattle contracts are scheduled to close this summer, eliminating dozens of jobs and, for many, a way of life.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 2015, covering March 24, 2015.
Kelly Clarkson
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Taylor Swift
Drake
Ed Sheeran
2015Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (born 1928)[â ]
Yehuda Avner was an Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author. He served as Speechwriter and Secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol, and as Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. Avner served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York, and the Israeli Embassy to the US in Washington, D.C., and as Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Ireland and Australia. In 2010, he turned his insider stories about Israeli politics and diplomacy into a bestselling book, The Prime Ministers, which subsequently became the basis for a two-part documentary movie. In 2015, his novel, The Ambassador, which Avner co-authored with thriller writer Matt Rees, was posthumously published.
2015notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:[â ]
Oleg Bryjak was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in DĂŒsseldorf.
2015notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:[â ]
Maria Friderike Radner was a German contralto who performed internationally in opera and in concerts. She studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in DĂŒsseldorf. She was described as an "extremely talented interpreter of Wagner's music" by Stern magazine and Abendzeitung. Possessing the "rare pitch of a true alto", she frequently appeared as Erda in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Leipzig Opera, Schwertleite in Die WalkĂŒre at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze with Zubin Mehta, and in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) conducted by Antonio Pappano in Rome and Milan. Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012 in GötterdĂ€mmerung was part of that company's documentary Wagner's Dream.
2015Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.[â ]
Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from BarcelonaâEl Prat Airport in Spain to DĂŒsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa. On 24 March 2015, the aircraft, an Airbus A320-211, crashed 100Â km north-west of Nice in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]