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Imagine that it's close to midnight and there's a knock at the door of your luxurious weekend rental home. A man is standing there, calmly apologizing. He says it's his home and that he and his daughter need your help.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ten of the best songs of the year, as determined by Associated Press Music Writer Maria Sherman, in no particular order. Dive in.

Leave it to Neil Young to give streaming songs a whole new meaning with a new album, “Before and After," out Friday. Young delivers reinventions of 13 deep tracks as one continuous piece of mostly acoustic music, with no breaks, over 48 minutes.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of some Athens short-term rental apartments by inventing a bedbug crisis.

Top Show of the Year Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — You won’t see Tom Hanks on one of those space tourism flights that whisk celebrities and millionaires on a suborbital jaunt for a few hours. He says it wouldn’t be enough time out of this world.

Top New Shows (US): 1. Tosh Show , iHeartPodcasts 2. Mortal Sin , Dateline NBC 3. Trump’s Trials , NPR 4. The Global Story , BBC Podcasts 5. Soder , Dan Soder 6. So Into That , Caro Chambers 7. Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty , iHeartPodcasts 8.

Top Paid Books (US Bestseller List): 1. Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (Entangled Publishing, LLC) 2. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Inc.) 3.

Top Movie Purchases and Rentals (US): 1. Oppenheimer 2. Barbie 3. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas 4. The Equalizer 3 5. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 6. The Holdovers 7. Dumb Money 8. Illumination Presents: Dr.

Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got a leading five nominations, including best feature, from the Film Independent Spirit Awards.