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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1913)[†]
Eugene Bennett Fluckey, nicknamed "Lucky Fluckey", was a United States Navy rear admiral who received the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses during his service as a submarine commander in World War II.
2007Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1919)[†]
Kiichi Miyazawa was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1991 to 1993.
The blog of a Bear Stearns executive offers insights into the investment bank’s response to the near collapse of two hedge funds.
Starter Tom Glavine earned his 297th career victory, but the Mets managed just two hits against Anthony Reyes, a pitcher who has struggled this season like few others.
Sybille Bammer, who lost her second-round match to the unseeded Laura Granville, is the only mother among the top 100 tennis players on the Tour.
It lasted less than an hour, but a power failure that left big sections of the Upper East Side and the Bronx without electricity yesterday afternoon stirred fears that there may be more dark days ahead this summer.
The Baltimore Orioles blitzed Roger Clemens for four runs in the sixth inning as the Yankees lost for the seventh time in eight games on this road trip.
With the help of the house’s original architect and occupant, a couple restores a 1957 house that many saw as an oddity.
The covert campaign targeting street art began about seven months ago, with blobs of paint that appeared overnight, obscuring murals and wheat-pasted art on walls in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
Just how much of a phone, an iPod and an Internet machine is this thing?
A new campaign finance law passed by the City Council would crack down on lobbyists and developers — but not labor unions.
Cut the apron strings? Some mothers and daughters won’t hear of it.
Carlos Slim Helú may be the richest man in the world. And in Mexico, where millions live in poverty, that distinction has been drawing heat.
Love them or hate them, the colorful garbage trucks of Yonkers are hard to miss.