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Paddy Moloney talks about this traditional Irish group’s 50th-anniversary album, a collaboration with younger artists in many genres.
The commission reversed the conditional approval for a network that would use frequencies once reserved for satellite-telephone transmissions.
Edward Maher, a suspect in a million-pound robbery in England in 1993, was arrested last week in a mostly rural corner of southwest Missouri.
In one of the worst prison fires in recent years in Latin America, with more than 300 dead, most of the victims choked to death in their cells awaiting a rescue that never came.
For fans of Leonardo da Vinci who did not get to see the blockbuster show of his work at the National Gallery London, there’s a film. Roberta Smith considers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 15, 2012, covering February 15, 2012.
Adele
Lana Del Rey
Leonard Cohen
Various Artists
Kidz Bop Kids
2012Cyril Domb, English-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1920)[†]
Cyril Domb FRS was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist, best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He was also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on science and Judaism.
2012Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.[†]
A deadly fire occurred on 14–15 February 2012 at the National Penitentiary in Comayagua, Honduras, killing 361 people. Prisoners trapped in their cells died by burning or suffocation; dozens were burned beyond recognition. The fire started late in the evening of 14 February. According to one prisoner, calls for help went out almost immediately and "for a while, nobody listened. But after a few minutes, which seemed like an eternity, a guard appeared with keys and let us out." Rescue forces did not arrive until about 40 minutes later.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]