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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Gideon Ezra, Israeli geographer and politician, Israeli Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (born 1937)[†]
Gideon Ezra was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and Kadima between 1996 and 2012 and also held several ministerial portfolios.
2012Patrick Mafisango, Congolese-Rwandan footballer (born 1980)[†]
Patrick Mutesa Mafisango was a Rwandan international footballer who played as a midfielder.
2012Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (born 1948)[†]
Donna Adrian Gaines, known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.
This year’s show house is set in a modern Manhattan high-rise with sweeping views.
The Central American country is a growing focus of American efforts aimed at drug cartels that have sought to use its ungoverned spaces.
The pinup, once fodder for magazines with evocative titles like Eyeful and Wink, has evolved from the all-American calendar girl to an emblem of hip femininity.
Non-Hispanic white births are no longer a majority in the United States, a tipping point that has implications for politics, the economy and a nation’s identity.
A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire, Joe Ricketts, seeking to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era.
The scope of an investigation into foreign bribery issues seemed to have widened at the retailer, which reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings.
Ms. Summer was a five-time Grammy winner who became a superstar in the 1970s with hits like “Last Dance.”
A multibillion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan may remind some of the disaster at the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund in 1998.
The United States Commerce Department concluded that Chinese producers had “dumped” their products on the American market.
Michael Haneke, Abbas Kiarostami and other luminaries have films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
The tech giant will refocus on product development and sales, executives say, and operations in China will most likely be spared.
In Toni Morrison’s novel, a traumatized soldier returns from the Korean War to his segregated hometown in Georgia.