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Kareena Kapoor (born 1980) is an Indian Bollywood actress. She is the daughter of actors Randhir Kapoor and Babita, and the younger sister of actress Karisma Kapoor. Her achievements include six Filmfare Awards, four IIFA Awards, and three Screen Awards. One of Bollywood's highest-paid actresses, she has played a variety of characters and appeared in a range of film genres. After making her acting debut in Refugee (2000), Kapoor established herself as a leading actress in 2001 with her roles in Aśoka and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.... This initial success was followed by roles in a series of commercial failures. The year 2004 marked a turning point for her when she played a sex worker in Chameli. She earned wide recognition for her roles in Dev and Omkara, then starred in Jab We Met (2007). Kapoor achieved further success by featuring as the female lead in four of India's top-grossing productions—3 Idiots (2009), Golmaal 3 (2010), Bodyguard (2011), and Ra.One (2011)—and received praise for her roles in Kurbaan (2009) and Heroine (2012). Married to actor Saif Ali Khan, Kapoor's off-screen life is the subject of widespread coverage in India. (Full article...)

Haggis pakora at a restaurant

... that haggis pakora (pictured) has been called an "example of Indo-Gael fusion"?
... that Orsonwelles, a genus of Hawaiian spiders named after Orson Welles, exhibits island gigantism?
... that Rauf Mirgadirov, a once "Honored Journalist of Azerbaijan", is now in custody in Azerbaijan?
... that the Demands of the Slovak Nation, issued in 1848, included a call for universal manhood suffrage that was unusually radical for that time and place?
... that Miss Oregon 2007 Kari Virding saw her first Miss Oregon pageant when she was just eight years old?
... that in 1990, an explosion in the population of the long-tailed pygmy rice rat followed after a mass-flowering of bamboos?
... that Lady Sayer interrupted live firing exercises on an army range in Dartmoor to photograph damage done to ancient monuments?
... that Millennium, a spin-off of The X-Files, is an adaptation of Millennium, a spin-off of The X-Files?

Malcolm Turnbull

Japan's upper chamber of Parliament approves legislation allowing use of Japanese military forces outside Japan for the first time since World War II.
A magnitude-8.3 earthquake strikes in the Pacific off the coast of Chile, killing at least ten people and prompting the evacuation of at least one million others.
Burkina Faso's Regiment of Presidential Security dissolves the nation's government in a coup d'état.
Malcolm Turnbull (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Australia after replacing Tony Abbott as the Liberal Party leader.
In road cycling, Italian Fabio Aru wins the Vuelta a España.

September 21: International Day of Peace; Independence Day in Armenia (1991)

Great Fire of New York

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Fire of New York (pictured) broke out during British occupation of New York City, destroying up to 1,000 buildings.
1860 – Second Opium War: Anglo-French forces earned a decisive victory against Qing dynasty troops in the Battle of Palikao, allowing them to capture Beijing.
1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy children's novel The Hobbit, which later served as a predecessor to The Lord of the Rings, was first published.
1965 – Portugal outraged the United Kingdom by announcing its acceptance of a mission in Lisbon independently representing Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia), a British colony.
2013 – Unidentified gunmen began a three-day attack on the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, resulting in the deaths of 67 people with at least another 175 wounded.

Grey's Anatomy title screen

As of May 14, 2015, 244 episodes of the American medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy have aired. The series has run for eleven seasons, and focuses on the fictional lives of surgical interns and residents, as they gradually evolve into seasoned doctors, while trying to maintain personal lives. The show's premise originated with Shonda Rhimes, who serves as an executive producer, along with Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding, and Allan Heinberg. Grey's Anatomy premiered on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement on March 27, 2005. Episodes have been broadcast on Thursday nights at 9:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST), since Grey's third season. The first two seasons aired after Desperate Housewives in the Sunday 10:00 pm EST time-slot. All episodes are approximately forty-three minutes, excluding commercials, and are broadcast in both high-definition and standard. Grey's Anatomy was among the top-ten-rated shows in the United States from the show's first through fourth season. (Full list...)

Benoît Peeters is a French comics writer, novelist, and critic. His works include a series of novels, Les Cités Obscures (1983–present); an illustrated history of the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and his creation The Adventures of Tintin, Le monde d'Hergé (1983); and biographies of the philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early comics artist Rodolphe Töpffer.

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