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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1940)[†]
Charles Edward Miller Pearce was a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. At the time of his death on 8 June 2012 he was the Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
2012Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (born 1926)[†]
Ghassan Tueni was a Lebanese journalist, politician and diplomat who headed An Nahar, one of the Arab world's leading newspapers. Some call him "The Dean of Lebanese Journalism".
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A choice by some private unions to back Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, aiding an offensive against their public-sector brethren, exposes a deepening fissure in the labor movement.
Proxy season is traditionally dominated by well-known activist investors, but this year has been different with mutual funds and other institutional investors applying more pressure to corporate boards.
Despite surplus grain stockpiles, malnourishment is widespread in India, where politicians are facing pressure to deal with corruption and waste in distribution programs.
“We have a long way to go before this is over,” Catherine of Siena tells the audience in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Medieval Play,” which has knights, ladies, popes, harlots and a dozen or so explosive laughs.
The presidential campaigns and their allies have been bombarding a shrinking pool of swing voters with the earliest concentration of advertisements in the modern political era.
Confronting blood, body parts and shelled buildings, a United Nations team quietly collected evidence on Friday of a mass atrocity in a desolate hamlet.
A report on the collapse of MF Global reveals a questionable series of moves that indicate the firm failed in its duty to protect the assets of its clients.
I’ll Have Another has been scratched from the Belmont Stakes, ending his bid to become horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.
The brothers Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi, whose show has been a staple of NPR for decades, will stop producing new shows this fall.
Rafael Nadal defeated David Ferrer and Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer to reach the final at the French Open.
Take a day — or two — to wrestle with your undone fiscal tasks and clean up as many of them as possible.
A good real estate agent can be a great ally in the quest to buy or sell a home. So how do you find somebody you are able to work with?