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‘Assassin’s Creed’, the huge action-adventure stealth video game with nearly 40 million die-hard fans will be adapted to the silver screen by director Justin Kurzel. German actor Michael Fassbender will bring the fictional character Callum Lynch to life as he explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar in 15th Century Spain.

An international tour of newly commissioned work by world-renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz will launch in London in January 2016. It will travel to 10 global cities in 12 months including Tokyo, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico City, Istanbul, Frankfurt, New York and Zurich. 

Iran hopes to bring its gas to the European Union by shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Spain, its oil minister was quoted as saying on Sept. 7 at a news conference with his Spanish counterpart in Tehran.

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Live Aid mastermind Bob Geldof, aged 63, offered to open the doors of his home to ease the refugee crisis after seeing pictures of Syrian Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach.

New media fair Moving Image, organized simultaneously with ArtInternational, welcomes artists for the second time in Istanbul. Orozobekov, the co-founder of the fair, expects a high number of visitors. This year Moving Image is presenting single-channel works and major installations from 20 artists during the Art International fair.

Turkey?s prime minister has said he was proud of being the premier of a country currently hosting two million refugees while the world?s richest countries turn their backs to Syrians fleeing violence, with the image of a three-year-old?s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach still very fresh in memories. 

Black Sabbath, who pioneered heavy metal more than four decades ago, on Sept. 3 announced a final tour and vowed it would be the band's last.

The third edition of Istanbul's global contemporary and modern art fair will open at the Haliç Congress Center on Sept. 4 welcoming both local and international VIP visitors.

The fair will feature 87 galleries this year, representing 27 countries and presenting works by more than 400 of world's most innovative artists.

Bulgaria's chess grandmaster Veselin Topalov retained the leadership position in the Grand Chess Tour and tops the current standing despite finishing seventh in the Sinquefield Cup.

Topalov is unchallenged at the top with 17 points, followed by Hikaru Nakamura from the US with 16 points and the Armenian Levon Aronian with 15 points.

Seven suspects, who were detained as part of the operation launched against Koza ?pek, a company linked to the Turkish government?s ally-turned-nemesis Fethullah Gülen, have been released on probation. 

An Ankara court on Sept. 2 decided to release on probation the seven suspects detained during the Koza ?pek raids.