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Amid punishing American-backed airstrikes, the Islamic State militants have used a strategy of persuasion and violence to advance in Iraq and Syria.
The effort to project an image of a more caring employer includes adjusting the air-conditioning, relaxing the dress code and jazzing up store music.
A woman of unusual force barrels into the life of a butcher in his mid-70s in âHeisenberg,â a play by Simon Stephens about an unlikely pairing.
The artist prepares to open his largest exhibition to date in the United States, at the Park Avenue Armory.
Richard Ferretti and James Gager, creative directors of Estée Lauder and MAC Cosmetics, created a sometimes fantastical landscape at their Pennsylvania farm.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 3, 2015, covering June 4, 2015.
Twenty One Pilots
Taylor Swift
Soundtrack
Zedd
Meghan Trainor
2015Marguerite Patten, English economist and author (born 1915)[â ]
Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten,, was a British home economist, food writer and broadcaster. She was one of the earliest celebrity chefs who became known during World War II thanks to her programme on BBC Radio, where she shared recipes that could work within the limits imposed by war rationing. After the war, she was responsible for popularising the use of pressure cookers and her 170 published books have sold over 17 million copies.
2015Leonid Plyushch, Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1938)[â ]
Leonid Ivanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.
2015Jabe Thomas, American race car driver (born 1930)[â ]
Cerry Ezra "Jabe" Thomas was an American NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup Series driver who competed from the mid-1960s through the late 1970s. His son Ronnie was also a NASCAR Cup Series driver; competing from 1977 to 1989 and winning NASCAR's Rookie of the Year award in 1978.
2015Anne Warburton, British academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Denmark (born 1927)[â ]
Dame Anne Warburton was a British diplomat who was the first female British ambassador. She served as British Ambassador to Denmark from 1976 to 1983 and British Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1983 to 1985. Having retired from her diplomatic career, she was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University from 1985 to 1994.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]