The Daily Populous

Iraqi social media star and model Tara Fares has been shot dead in Baghdad, security officials confirmed to CNN.

Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Saad Maan told an Iraqi TV station that two motorcyclists shot Fares while she was inside a vehicle.

The 22-year-old, a Christian whose father was Iraqi and mother Lebanese, was living in Erbil, but visited the capital occasionally. »

A unique underwater sculpture exhibit at a Maldives resort was destroyed on order of the country's president after it was deemed to violate Islamic beliefs.

President Abdulla Yameen said the country’s religious leaders had complained that the sculpture represented idols, which are banned by Islam.

Night visits to the Coralarium, when the sculptures were illuminated with underwater lights, were popular with visitors to the country. »

Titled "Go Set a Watchman," the novel is a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, though it was actually written before "To Kill a Mockingbird.".

Lee has not published any new works for more than half a century, so naturally, book lovers and fans are thrilled.

Lee took that time to write "To Kill A Mockingbird," which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and is still read in classrooms around the country. »

Some staff members were administered naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, in the field after exposure, a medication which reverses opiate overdoses.

We can no more punish our way to drug-free prisons than we can imprison our way to a drugless nation.

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