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The outcome was a measure of strength for Mitt Romney and a test for challengers seeking a strong performance to propel them into the South Carolina primary.
The crisis in Europe is leading General Motors to emphasize new luxury models meant to improve sales in America.
If analysts’ forecasts come true, higher dividend payouts will continue in 2012, as companies release more cash and try to win over investors.
If Mitt Romney succeeds in South Carolina, a place famous for surfacing the dark undercurrents of American politics, it will be a triumph of political rebranding.
New York State is investigating whether several banks fraudulently steered homeowners into overpriced policies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 2012, covering January 11, 2012.
Adele
Drake
Young Jeezy
Lady Antebellum
LMFAO
2012Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, Iranian physicist and academic (born 1980)[†]
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated in 2012. He was also deputy of commerce at the Natanz nuclear power plant.
2012Gilles Jacquier, French journalist and photographer (born 1968)[†]
Gilles Jacquier was a French photojournalist and reporter for France Télévisions. Jacquier worked as a special correspondent for Envoyé spécial, one of France's best known documentary programs which airs on France 2. He had a successful career, has covered major international military conflicts and won many awards during his life. He was killed on 11 January 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Homs, Syria. Jacquier was the first Western journalist killed in Syria since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
2012Edgar Kaiser, Jr, American-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1942)[†]
Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser Jr. was an American-Canadian financier and a former owner of the Denver Broncos American football team.
2012Wally Osterkorn, American basketball player (born 1928)[†]
Walter Raymond Osterkorn was an American professional basketball player.
2012Steven Rawlings, English astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (born 1961)[†]
Steven Gregory Rawlings was a British astrophysicist at the University of Oxford, where he held a professorship in astrophysics and a fellowship at St Peter's College. He studied physics and theoretical physics at St John's College, Cambridge and received his PhD in radio astronomy in 1988. He was one of the lead scientists in the Square Kilometre Array project.
2012David Whitaker, English composer and conductor (born 1931)[†]
David Sinclair Whitaker was an English composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]