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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012James B. Morehead, American colonel and pilot (born 1916)[â ]
James Bruce Morehead was an American fighter pilot and flying ace of World War II. He flew combat missions over a three-year span of the war with a total of eight aerial victories. He was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses, a Silver Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and sixteen Air Medals
2012A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.[â ]
The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre, was a mass murder that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, in the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Nine of his victims were children, and 11 of the dead were from the same family. Some of the corpses were partially burned. Bales was taken into custody later that morning when he told authorities, "I did it".
Nine children were among the dead after an American soldier stalked from home to home in attacks in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan, Afghan and American officials said.
Two new reality shows, âDoomsday Preppersâ on the National Geographic Channel and âDoomsday Bunkersâ on Discovery, feature people preparing for some kind of apocalypse.
Layers of deceit pervade the life of a stay-at-home mom in Luxembourg in âThe Expats,â a novel from Chris Pavone.
âJohn Carter,â Disneyâs big-budget epic, is a new example of the Hollywood studiosâ habit of pouring more money into looming flops to stay on good terms with their stars.
The Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg performed Boris Eifmanâs âRodinâ ballet, based on the life of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin and his tumultuous relationship with his mistress and muse.
The Millennium Theater in Brooklyn is a bit like a Lincoln Center for Russian-speaking immigrants who live in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, but still remember their days in Odessa, Tbilisi, Kiev or Minsk.
Two approaches to giving credit where credit belongs online were announced at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin.
Talea Ensemble, in a performance on Friday at the Tenri Cultural Institute, showed how perplexity could charm and delight.
Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia won a world title for the first time in nearly four years at the world indoor track and field championships in Istanbul.
The British singer Charli XCX, a purveyor of knowing, sometimes hilarious pop, performed at the Knitting Factory on Saturday night.
At a ceremony to honor the former Oakland running back Clem Daniels, players and John Madden said there had long been rewards for hard hitting in a violent sport.
Kendall Marshall was the last option for a change Saturday afternoon and made an old-school bank shot that saved North Carolina from elimination in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.