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The pope this week is addressing a dwindling Christian population driven away by violence, lack of economic opportunity and the rise of radical Islam.
About $12 billion was pulled out of accounts at Bernard L. Madoff’s firm in 2008, half of which was taken out in the three months before his arrest.
New applications popping up for Apple's iPhone require a process known as jailbreaking, which Apple says is a copyright violation.
A former Army surgeon who is also a consultant for a medical company has been accused of overstating the benefits of a product used in treating soldiers.
The federal government has paid out less than 6 percent of the $787 billion economic stimulus package, largely in the form of social service payments to states.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 2009, covering May 13, 2009.
Bob Dylan
Soundtrack
Rascal Flatts
Rick Ross
Lady Gaga
2009Frank Aletter, American actor (born 1926)[†]
Frank George Aletter was an American theatre, film, and television actor.
2009Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian rabbi (born 1934)[†]
Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer was a member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, the Haredi Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, and was in charge of their Kashrut operations, especially matters of Shechita.
2009Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and mountaineer (born 1914)[†]
Achille Compagnoni was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli on 31 July 1954 he was in the first party to reach the summit of K2.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]