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A plan to overhaul the troubled U.S.-run prison at Bagram Air Base and other facilities was prompted by worries about militant recruiting in the prisons.
Japanese handset makers’ rush to innovation in the last 15 years has put them so far ahead they can’t find a niche to expand outside their networks.
A former consultant hopes his company can tell traditional stories from India to a new generation of children.
After a successful test run in Chicago, ESPN is planning to launch local sports Web sites in three additional cities.
Stewart Cink was not the crowd favorite to win the British Open, but his championship moment Sunday made up for past heartbreak.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 2009, covering July 20, 2009.
Various Artists
Brad Paisley
Rob Thomas
Wilco
The Black Eyed Peas
2009Vedat Okyar, Turkish footballer (born 1945)[†]
Vedat Okyar was a Turkish international footballer who later became a sports journalist.
2009Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (born 1922)[†]
Mark Richard Rosenzweig was an American research psychologist whose research on neuroplasticity in animals indicated that the adult brain remains capable of anatomical remodelling and reorganization based on life experiences, overturning the conventional wisdom that the brain reached full maturity in childhood.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]