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Before he became pope, Benedict XVI held a position that had authority over abuse cases but did not assert it for many years.
In a remarkable season of lobbying, business is booming for Tony Podesta and his firm, the Podesta Group.
Thanks to the economy, it’s not too late for a summer in the Hamptons, and prices are down from their peak.
The Montauket Hotel, which was put up for sale in June, has become a stand-in for the soul of this gentrifying town.
In Chicago’s public schools, where 258 students were shot last school year, a program places advocates with youths at risk of falling victim to violence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 30, 2010, covering July 2, 2010.
Drake
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Sarah McLachlan
Various Artists
Jack Johnson
2010Beryl Bainbridge, English screenwriter and author (born 1932)[†]
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
2010The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.[†]
This is a list of notable tank truck fires and explosions.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]