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Pennsylvania teenager shot in road rage incident Pennsylvania police are hunting a man who shot and killed an 18-year-old girl in a "road rage incident". Bianca Nikol Roberson, a recent school graduate, was driving near West Goshen when her car veered off the road. Police responded to what they initially thought was a fatal collision, but then discovered that Ms Roberson had been shot in the head. Investigators believe another driver shot her as she attempted to merge into the same lane as a red pickup truck. The road Ms Roberson on which was driving narrows to a single lane where it joins another main route. "Her car started jostling with a red pickup truck - not actually hitting - but both of them trying to merge together," prosecutor Tom Hogan told reporters. "And then she was shot. The man in the red pickup truck shot her directly in the head." "This was a senseless and brutal act of violence," he added. Ms Roberson was pro...

'Despicable Me 3' Takes $4.1M Thursday Comedy 'The House' starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler took in $800K in previews. The trouble-making Minions and Gru returned to theaters Thursday night, with  Despicable Me 3  taking in $4.1 million in previews. Comedy The House, starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler, kicked off the weekend with $800,000. In 2013,  Despicable Me 2  also opened over the Fourth of July holiday frame, opening on a Tuesday to $4.7 million in previews. For the three-day period,  Despicable Me 2  earned $83.5 million, and it earned $143.1 million in its first five days over the holiday. In 2015, spin-off  Minions  earned $6.2 million in previews on its way to a huge opening of $115.7 million. Universal and Illumination Entertainment's animated threequel  Despicable Me 3  should have a strong debut of the long holiday weekend, tracking to earn $90 million or more for the three-day frame before r...

Duvvada Jagannadham week 1 box office collection: Allu Arjun hits Rs 100 cr club for third time Tollywood’s Stylish Star  Allu Arjun ’s latest release, Duvvada Jagannadham aka DJ, has crossed the coveted Rs 100 crore mark at the worldwide box office in its first week itself. DJ has become the fastest Rs 100 crore earner in Allu’s career and it is his third film to enter the elite Rs 100 crore club. Earlier, Race Gurram and Sarrainodu had grossed more than Rs 100 crore in its worldwide collections. DJ has ended its first week run with approx Rs 102 crore in its kitty. The film is a big blockbuster in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where the first-week box office share of distributors is pegged at Rs 50.6 crore. In last seven days, DJ has collected Rs 17.7 crore in Nizam, Rs 8.8 crore in Ceded, Rs 2.1 crore in Nellore, Rs 4.7 crore in Guntur, Rs 3.4 crore in Krishna, Rs 3.4 crore in West and over Rs 4 crore in East and Rs 6.1 crore in Uttharandhra. It is said to be only the four...

Germany gay marriage approved by MPs in snap vote A clear majority of German MPs have voted to legalise same-sex marriage, days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her opposition to a vote. The reform grants couples now limited to civil unions full marital rights, and allows them to adopt children. Mrs Merkel's political opponents were strongly in favour. But the chancellor, who signalled her backing for a free vote only on Monday, voted against. The bill was backed by 393 lawmakers, 226 voted against and four abstained. The German legal code will now read: "Marriage is entered into for life by two people of different or the same sex", AFP news agency reported Following Friday's vote, Mrs Merkel said that for her marriage was between a man and a woman. But she said she hoped the passing of the bill would lead to more "social cohesion and peace". How did this sudden vote come about? During her 2013 election campaign, Mrs Merkel argued against gay mar...

Modi finally speaks out against lynchings of ‘beef eaters’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke his silence Thursday and delivered a speech condemning a recent spate of lynchings in India. Hours later, a news alert announced that yet another man had been killed by a mob for carrying beef. This was the second beef-related lynching in a week, and one of many since Modi came to power in 2014. His Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has strong links to a number of far-right Hindu organizations, has been widely criticized for allowing such attacks to continue with little impunity. The violence happens in the name of protecting cows, which Hindus consider sacred. Taking the podium in Ahmedabad on Thursday, Modi said, “Today, when I hear that someone is killed in the name of a cow — whether he is innocent or guilty is something the law will decide — no person has the right to take the law into his own hands. I appeal to the people of the country: Violence is ...

Venus Williams Involved in Fatal Crash in Florida Venuswillams was involved in a car crash in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., on June 9 that resulted in a fatality, a spokesman for the police department there said. The crash is under investigation, said the spokesman, Maj. Paul Rogers. Palm Beach Gardens police said in a report on the crash that Williams was at fault, but her lawyer noted that she had not been cited or charged. Jerome Barson, 78, was injured in the car, which was being driven by his wife, and died two weeks later. Palm Beach Gardens police said that witnesses told investigators that Williams ran a red light. A lawyer for Williams, Malcolm Cunningham, released a statement Thursday that said: “Ms. Williams entered the intersection on a green light. The police report estimates that Ms. Williams was traveling at 5 m.p.h. when Mrs. Barson crashed into her. Authorities did not issue Ms. Williams with any citations or traffic violations. This is an unfortunate accident, and Venus...

A sip of coffee might be dangerous these days, especially if you are in the United Kingdom.  BBC consumer-affairs program, Watchdog, discovered that the three biggest coffee chains in the UK, Starbucks, Costa and Caffe Nero, were found to contain bacteria from feces in ice they used for cold drinks. For Starbucks and Caffe Nero, three out of 10 samples of collected ice were contaminated by fecal bacteria, and the result for Costa was seven out of 10, according to the investigation.   Tony Lewis, head of policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, told the BBC that the amount of bacteria found at these coffee giants was "concerning" and these types of bacteria can cause disease in humans. “It is extremely important to us that all our stores operate to high standards of hygiene at all times, and we take it very seriously when any store fails to meet these standards,” a spokesperson of Costa said in a statement to MarketWatch.  “We ado...

German lawmakers vote to legalize same-sex marriage, days after Chancellor Angela Merkel softened her stance  German lawmakers voted by a wide margin to legalize same-sex marriage Friday, a landmark decision which came just days after Chancellor Angela Merkel dropped her longstanding opposition to a free vote on the issue. The bill gives homosexual couples in Germany the same rights as heterosexual couples, and will allow same-sex couples to marry and jointly adopt children.   It passed by 393 votes to 226, with four abstentions. The bill is likely to pass through the Bundesrat -- Germany's upper house -- next week. The Bundesrat has previously approved legalizing same-sex marriage Once it has been officially signed into law, Germany will enter the club of more than 20 countries where same-sex marriage is legal. Two-thirds of Germans said they were in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage  Gay rights activists in Germany have been calling for s...

Five suicide bombers have blown themselves up during a raid by Lebanese troops on refugee camps near the Syrian border, Lebanon's army said. Three soldiers were wounded by the blasts, while four others were hurt when an attacker threw a hand grenade, the army said. It happened during an operation to search for militants and weapons in an area near the town of Arsal. Arsal has often seen violence between troops and Sunni jihadist militants. The area is home to thousands of refugees from the war in Syria and was the scene of an attack in 2014, when more than two dozen members of the Lebanese security forces were seized by militants from al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State.

Priyanka Chopra excited to join the likes of Gal Gadot, Naomi Harris at the Oscars’ Academy We revealed to you how Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone and a few others have been invited to be a part of the Oscar’s Academy Class of 2017.  Obviously, this is a very prestigious moment for all of us and looks like Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan are super excited to be a part of The Academy too. But Priyanka is even more happier with the fact that she is now in the same league as Gal Gadot, Naomi Harris and a few others. As Priyanka mentioned to Mumbai Mirror, “I’m so grateful, such an honour! I’m excited about the Academy inviting me and all these amazing women into the fold.There’s Naomi Harris, Gal Gadot, Leslie Jones. It’s so good to see all these wonderful women on the list. And it’s good that the Academy included some guys too.” Irrfan Khan also expressed his happiness, while also mentioning how thi...

facet of Fidel Castro as 'Hollywood Actor' One of the lesser-known facets of Fidel Castro was his ephemeral passage through Hollywood studios in the 1940s. According to Uruguayan critic  Alvaro Sanjurjo  , between 1944 and 1946 Castro made his appearance as an actor in the studies of the  Metro Goldwyn Mayer  . The recording of his participation was captured in the film "  Bathing Beauty  " (1944) and "  Holiday in Mexico  " (Festival in Mexico) in 1946, the two films directed by the American   George Sidney  . Julio Lista, an American film buff, was the one who discovered the name of Fidel in  JR Parish & GW Mank's  book  The Best of MGM  (The Golden Years 1928-1959). In an  article published  by the newspaper La Jornada, talk about Fidel's empathy and his conversational qualities on Stone's part: "He is an easy-going actor who never says 'stop'  ,  cuts or needs a br...

A city in southwest Iran posted the country’s hottest temperature ever recorded Thursday afternoon, and may have tied the world record for the most extreme high temperature. Etienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency MeteoFrance, posted to Twitter that the city of Ahvaz soared to “53.7°C” (128.7 degrees Fahrenheit). Kapikian said the temperature is a “new absolute national record of reliable Iranian heat” and that it was the hottest temperature ever recorded in June over mainland Asia. Iran’s previous hottest temperature was 127.4. Weather Underground’s website indicates the temperature in Ahvaz climbed even higher, hitting 129.2 degrees at both 4:51 and 5 p.m. local time Christopher Burt, a weather historian for Weather Underground, has exhaustively analyzed world temperature extremes and determined the 129.2 degree readings posted in Mitribah, Kuwait on July 21, 2016, and Death Valley, Calif., on June 30, 2013, are the hott...

Sense8' Two-Hour Finale Set at Netflix Sense8  has a gift for its fans: A two-hour finale episode is in the works for the canceled Netflix series, the show announced on Twitter Thursday. The special will release next year on the streamer. The news came in the form of a letter from co-creator Lana Wachowski, who helmed the most recent second season of the sci-fi series after sister Lilly Wachowski took a step back. The pair created the show with J. Michael Straczynski. Netflix shared the letter on its official account, along with a video tribute to the sci-fi series. "After seeing that the cancellation was a total cluster, we decided to give  Sense8 fans the ending they totally deserve," said a Netflix spokesperson.  In her letter, Lana Wachowski confessed that she fell into a "fairly serious" depression after the series was canceled. Netflix handed down the news on June 1, not long after  Sense8 's  May 5 season two release...