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For the non-issuance of receipts, 22 sites on the southern Black Sea coast have been sealed since the beginning of July, and since the beginning of the year their number is 156. This was announced by the National Revenue Agency.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a behemoth of culture and wealth, is rebounding from more than a year of internal turmoil and financial problems.

As part of its recovery efforts, the museum is considering a mandatory admissions fee for visitors from outside New York state. The set fee, possibly $25 for adults, would be the first in the venerable museum's 147-year history.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security are conducting emergency response drills at MetLife Stadium in northern New Jersey to make sure the New York City area is prepared in the event of a nuclear attack.

Few visitors to New York City can resist a snapshot of the emblematic Flatiron Building, which has stood since 1902 on the corner of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street and was once the tallest building in Manhattan.

The number of journalists killed in the line of duty is on track to decline in 2016 from recent record levels, says the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Fewer journalists were targeted for murder and war became the deadliest beat, the organization found its annual analysis.

Turkish megastar Tarkan will take the stage in the United States for a series of concerts in New York and Los Angeles organized by the SM Production Group in March. 

Tarkan will take stage in the Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center Studios on March 2 and 3, 2017 in New York and at The Novo by Microsoft in the heart of Los Angeles on March 5. 

Daniel Marker-Moore’s time-sliced photos carry the charm of time lapse photography to show the shift from day to night across the world’s most iconic cities. The photographs focus on a point in the day – sunrise or sunset – with the most dramatic change in light. Taking dozens of images to show the subtle changes of the sun, he joins these together with interesting results.

The Statue of Liberty was originally designed to be a Muslim woman, the Smithsonian Institution's magazine has claimed.

An article on the government-administered museum's blog, Smart News, claims one of the designers of Lady Liberty drew inspiration from monuments in Egypt and originally intended to construct a veiled female peasant on the Suez Canal.

Benaki Museum will inaugurate the Reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero by Santiago Calatrava on Thursday, Sept. 24, and exhibition that will last until Oct. 25.

The exhibition will present sketches, drawings, plans, photographs and audiovisual material.

Twelve people were hurt when two New York buildings collapsed and a blaze tore through neighboring properties Thursday in what preliminary indications suggested was a gas-related explosion.