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Efforts to tighten oversight of charities have largely failed because of regulatory indifference, political lobbying or lack of political will.
While Florence and the Machine rose by celebrating elaborate, dramatic artifice, its new album is rawer and less adorned, with Florence Welch detailing a failed relationship.
Jeff Kinney has sold more than 150 million copies of his “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books. Now he is opening a bookstore in his hometown.
Apartments with a glimpse of H2O in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn that aren’t for millionaires.
Before her fourth World Cup with the United States, Wambach, 34, chose to leave her N.W.S.L. team, train often on her own and round into form like a boxer for one final bout.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 20, 2015, covering May 22, 2015.
Mumford & Sons
Josh Groban
Various Artists
Tech N9ne
Zac Brown Band
2015Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)[†]
Marques Haynes was an American professional basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters, notable for his ability to dribble the ball and keep it away from defenders. According to the 1988 film Harlem Globetrotters: Six Decades of Magic, Haynes could dribble the ball as many as 348 times a minute.
2015Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (born 1921)[†]
Volodymyr Katriuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian soldier and beekeeper, who was accused of having taken part in the Khatyn massacre and other massacres under the cover of anti-partisan warfare as a member of the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 during World War II. In the annual Nazi War Criminal Report for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014, Katriuk was ranked number three under the list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals as determined by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Katriuk denied any involvement in war crimes. On 18 March 2024, the Supreme Court of Belarus ruled that Katriuk was guilty of the genocide of the Belarusian people.
2015The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage.[†]
Ireland, also known as the Republic of Ireland, is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. Its capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island, with a population of over 1.5 million. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the Oireachtas, consists of a lower house, Dáil Éireann; an upper house, Seanad Éireann; and an elected president who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the Taoiseach, elected by the Dáil and appointed by the president, who appoints other government ministers.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]