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Rihanna is set to receive an award for her commitment to charity.

The 29-year-old singer has been named Harvard University's 2017 Humanitarian of the Year, and will be presented with the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award during a ceremony on campus next week.

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"Rihanna has charitably built a state-of-the-art center for oncology and nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat breast cancer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados," S. Allen Counter, the Harvard Foundation's director said in a statement on Wednesday. "She has also created the Clara Lionel Foundation Scholarship Program [named for her grandmother and grandfather] for students attending college in the U.S. from Caribbean countries, and supports the Global Partnership for Education and Global Citizen Project, a multiyear campaign that will provide children with access to education in over 60 developing countries, giving priority to girls and those affected by lack of...

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former secretary-general of the United Nations, died Tuesday. He was 93. Egypt’s state news agency said the U.N. chief died in a Cairo hospital, where he was reportedly admitted for a broken pelvis. BBC reported that Rafael Ramirez, Venezuelan ambassador to the U.N. and current president of the U.N. Security Council, confirmed Boutros-Ghali’s death. Also Read: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dies at 79 Boutros-Ghali was the first Arab to serve as U.N. secretary-general, taking office in 1992 and serving a five-year term. No further details about the death have been released as of yet,...

Hellllluuurrr, Happy Endings fans! As per usual, last night’s hysterical new episode was chock full of we-dare-you-to-keep-up-with-us pop-culture references. (Ali, Entourage, Rear Window, and of course, The Wire, were just some of the inspired gems mentioned.) But, there was a nice little added bonus to all of the whip-fast He madness: Guest appearances by pop-culture gems Michael McKean, Ed Begley Jr., and Megan Mullally, who was making her second appearance on the show. (Oh yeah, and a racist parrot was there, too.)

We learned a lot about our nutty little gang in the episode titled, fittingly, “Meet the Parrots.

Trailer and poster for Back Door Channels: The Price of Piece documentary The film helmed by Henry Hunkele is written by Matthew Tollin, Jonathan P. Hicks, Arick B. Wierson and Hunkele and brings together notable figures including Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and Boutros Boutros-Ghali among others. Fisher Klingenstein Films sends the film to theaters on September 16th. Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace is the true story of the men who brought lasting Peace to the Middle East. For the first time ever, the filmmakers take the audience behind the public veil obscured by a first of its kind White House issued media blackout on the events. Behind the press conferences and into the smoke-filled backroom corridors of power during one of the world’s greatest historical moments - the 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and Treaty between Egypt and Israel. For one brief moment in time, Arab and Jew...

Trailer and poster for Back Door Channels: The Price of Piece documentary The film helmed by Henry Hunkele is written by Matthew Tollin, Jonathan P. Hicks, Arick B. Wierson and Hunkele and brings together notable figures including Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and Boutros Boutros-Ghali among others. Fisher Klingenstein Films sends the film to theaters on September 16th. Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace is the true story of the men who brought lasting Peace to the Middle East. For the first time ever, the filmmakers take the audience behind the public veil obscured by a first of its kind White House issued media blackout on the events. Behind the press conferences and into the smoke-filled backroom corridors of power during one of the world’s greatest historical moments - the 1979 Camp David Peace Accord and Treaty between Egypt and Israel. For one brief moment in time, Arab and Jew...