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Disasters in Chinese coal mines are often covered up and death tolls underreported as businessmen and officials make common cause and profit.
Gaelic Park was more than just a sports field. It was where New Yorkâs Irish went to make connections, mingle with friends from the old country and discover new ones.
Companies once linked to organized crime performed electrical work at the new Yankee Stadium and demolition work at Shea.
Italian residents and officials have begun to assess the cultural damage wrought by Mondayâs earthquake in LâAquila.
Industry executives are bracing for fights with the government over repayment of bailout money and forced sales of bad mortgages.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 2009, covering April 11, 2009.
Various Artists
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Keri Hilson
Kelly Clarkson
2009Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress and singer (born 1914)[â ]
Gerda Gilboe was a Danish actress and singer. She appeared in 18 films between 1943 and 2003.
2009Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright (born 1912)[â ]
Vishnu Prabhakar was a Hindi writer. He had several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit. Prabhakar's works have elements of patriotism, nationalism and messages of social upliftment. He was the First Sahitya Academy Award winner from Haryana.
2009CorĂn Tellado, Spanish author (born 1927)[â ]
MarĂa del Socorro Tellado LĂłpez, known as CorĂn Tellado, was a prolific Spanish writer of romantic novels and photonovels that were best-sellers in several Spanish-language countries. She published more than 4,000 titles and sold more than 400 million books which have been translated into several languages. She was listed in the 1994 Guinness World Records as having sold the most books written in Spanish, and earlier in 1962 UNESCO declared her the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[â ]