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In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]
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A rival bid has arisen to Hugh Hefner’s effort to take Playboy Enterprises private. Should the company be allowed to ignore it to the detriment of shareholders?
Due to outright error and case-by-case disagreement, biopsy diagnosis often leads to unnecessary surgery.
It reads like a short version of the war: a man who worked for the Americans was killed by his son, an insurgent.
So far, the decision by Maywood, Calif., to outsource all of its municipal work has not been disastrous.
A program brings thousands of apprentices to Japan, but critics say employers pay illegally low wages and treat workers poorly.
A facelift at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum should enhance its links across cultures and their histories.
The state-owned railway loses about $3.8 million a day, prompting a search for solutions: maybe a foreign investor or a complete overhaul.
The novelist Carl Hiaasen takes on celebrities in a satirical tale about the self-destructive escapades of an over-the-hill former child star.
The company agreed to sell $7 billion of oil and gas fields to the Apache Corporation. The move will help raise the $20 billion it said it would put in escrow to pay claims for the oil spill.
The London theater scene reflects the pervasive economic anxiety, and the fictional characters onstage feel the pain of privation in their own emotive ways.
Publishers see opportunities in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, if an author has an angle.
Tamra Davis’s documentary, a romantic depiction of Jean-Michel Basquiat, blazingly brings to life the artist’s work and its cultural context.