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After a yearlong oil drilling moratorium, BP and other companies have intensified exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico, and drilling will soon expand to Mexican and Cuban waters.
One benefit of an attack by a group like Anonymous: it can gird a company against more serious online espionage.
Viewers who watch prime-time television days later are becoming an essential factor in determining a show’s popularity.
With diversions like e-mail, Twitter, YouTube and games a few taps away, the book-reading experience on a tablet is more like a 21st-century cacophony than a traditional solitary activity.
Rory McIlroy, 22, won the Honda Classic and became the youngest golfer to claim the No. 1 ranking since Tiger Woods in 1997.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 29, 2012, covering March 5, 2012.
Adele
Whitney Houston
Various Artists
Adele
Various Artists
2012Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (born 1970)[†]
Paul Haines was a New Zealand-born horror and speculative fiction writer. He lived in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.
2012Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (born 1934)[†]
Philip Madoc was a Welsh actor. He performed many stage, television, radio and film roles, and was recognised for having a "rich, sonorous voice" and often playing villains and officers.
2012William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (born 1922)[†]
William O. Wooldridge was a United States Army soldier and the first Sergeant Major of the Army.
2012Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.[†]
Severe Tropical Storm Irina was a large tropical cyclone that brought gusty winds and torrential rain across Madagascar, Mozambique, and South Africa. Irina is considered one of the most devastating systems of the 2011–12 season. Irina formed from a tropical wave that was located north of Madagascar. The disturbance continued to move south and became Irina on February 27. Irina moved parallel to the Madagascar coast, causing extreme flooding which claimed 77 lives. The system still has an unknown damage total.
2012Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania.[†]
On 5 March 2012, a man opened fire at a hair salon in Bucharest, Romania, killing two people and wounding six more.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]