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Jafar Panahi, one of the leading Iranian filmmakers who has been banned from making movies, sits before a camera in “This Is Not a Film.”
Mitt Romney successfully fended off a challenge from Rick Santorum in Michigan, a key battleground state, helping his chances of becoming the Republican nominee.
Republicans have condemned President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as an unmitigated disaster, but would they have responded to the recession differently?
Can a Northeasterner with a history of ideological migration win the nomination in the Tea Party era?
American officials assessed that Iran would retaliate to an Israeli strike by launching missiles on Israel and terrorist-style attacks on United States civilian and military personnel overseas.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 29, 2012, covering February 29, 2012.
Adele
Whitney Houston
Various Artists
Adele
Various Artists
2012Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist and actor (born 1945)[†]
David Thomas Jones was an English actor, singer, and songwriter. Best known as a member of the band the Monkees and a co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966–1968), Jones was considered a teen idol.
2012Sheldon Moldoff, American illustrator (born 1920)[†]
Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff was an American comics artist best known for his early work on the DC Comics characters Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" on the superhero Batman. He co-created the Batman supervillains Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, the second Clayface, and Bat-Mite, as well as the original heroes Bat-Girl, Batwoman, and Ace the Bat-Hound. Moldoff is the sole creator of the Black Pirate.
2012P. K. Narayana Panicker, Indian social leader (born 1930)[†]
P. K. Narayana Panicker was the President and General Secretary of the Nair Service Society (NSS), the social service organization established in 1914. He is the second-longest-serving general secretary of the organization, who has served 28 years in the post. He was an advocate by profession, who came to the front row of the organization in 1977 as its treasurer and later became General secretary in 1984.
2012North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.[†]
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like South Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]