'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' will break the all-time US box-office record by Monday

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The third weekend in theaters for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was another strong one. The film earned an estimated $88.30 million, according to BoxOffice.com (a record for New Year's weekend), putting it atop the weekend box office for a third consecutive week.

But many are eyeing what the film's number will be by Monday. 

If estimates hold, "Force Awakens" (now at an estimated $740.27 million) will pass the lifetime domestic total of "Avatar" ($760.5 million), making the seventh "Star Wars" the all-time US box-office record-holder. And doing it in only 18 days!

Saudi Arabia is severing diplomatic ties with Iran

Saudi Arabia will cut all diplomatic ties with Iran, the Saudi foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Saudi officials said that Iranian diplomats have 48 hours to leave the country, according to CNN.

Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference that "Riyadh would not allow the Islamic Republic to undermine the Sunni kingdom's security," according to Reuters.

He added: “The Iranian regime has a long record of violating foreign diplomatic missions."

Jay Z vows to make Harry Styles the “biggest artist in the world” after One Direction

Roc Nation boss Jay Z has got his eyes on Harry Styles, and has reportedly promised to make him “the biggest artist in the world”.

The music mogul, who has mentored the likes of Rihanna, Shakira and Kanye West, has vowed to give Harry the help he needs to forge a solo career.

"Harry doesn't need any help with exposure, everybody in the world knows who he is,” he reportedly told The Daily Star Sunday.

"But he does need to make the transition from being part of a group to becoming an individual artist.

Millionaire stabbed to death in Bahamas home led an idyllic lifestyle but was all as it seemed?

Phillip and wife Donna met when they were teenagers but was there trouble in paradise?

Respected podiatrist Phillip Vasyli was at the top of his game when he was found stabbed to death in his luxury home in the Caribbean.

Australian Phillip, 59, was a leader in his field. Over 30 years, he’d run several podiatry clinics, and he’d also founded an orthotic footwear company which sold shoes in the UK and across America. His website boasted the fact he’d treated over 50,000 people during his career.

Who would want to kill a man who’d devoted his life to helping people? And how had the killer entered an exclusive gated community and taken the life of a much-loved family man? No one expected the events that unfolded next.

The charismatic businessman was married to Donna, 54, who he’d met when they were both teenagers. And the couple had two grown-up children: son Aron and daughter Lauren. Phillip and Donna had started the Vasyli Foundation; a charity that gave health support to the underprivileged.

Saudi Arabia executes 47 convicted terrorists in one day

Saudi Arabian government has executed 47 people in one day including the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr after convicting them of Terrorist related activities that have occurred in the last decade.

According to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Interiors, the executed men believed in extremist ideology, were members of terror groups, and they were convicted of plotting and carrying out attacks against civilians going back as far at an attack on the U.S. consulate in Jeddah in 2004.

TRUMP: 'Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama'

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump opened his Saturday-night rally by blasting the Obama administration's approach to Iran and the Islamic State terrorist group.

"I'm pretty good at signals, and I see a lot of things happening," Trump said at a campaign stop in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Republican presidential front-runner pointed to Iranian protesters sacking the Saudi Embassy in Tehran earlier in the day, after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric.

Former Premier League footballer found dead

Former Premier League footballer Steve Gohouri has been found dead in a river in Germany. The 34-year-old, who played defence for Wigan Athletic between 2010 and 2012, had been reported missing two weeks ago.


Ghouri attended his German team's Christmas party on December 11 and was due to travel to see his family in Paris.

When he failed to turn up his family filed a missing persons report and a police appeal for his whereabouts was issued.

German media confirmed today his body had been found in the River Rhine, with no indication of violence.