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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (born 1917)[†]
Therese Ann Rutherford was a Canadian-born American actress in film, radio, and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series, and appearing as one of Scarlett O'Hara's sisters, Careen O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind (1939).
2012Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer and engineer (born 1952)[†]
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence was a Cuban amateur boxer who competed from 1966 to 1986.
201275 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.[†]
On 11 June 2012, two moderate earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, causing a large landslide. The landslide buried the town of Sayi Hazara, trapping 71 people. After four days of digging, only five bodies were recovered and the search was called off. Overall, 75 people were killed and 13 others were injured.
In the year since Oprah Winfrey’s reliably popular talk show went off the air, no program has emerged as a consistent ratings winner to take its place.
Even if the health care law is overturned, or repealed after the next election, the economic pressure to care differently for more people at lower cost is irreversible.
Under a government initiative, each week a different citizen is entrusted the country’s Twitter account, @Sweden, to post at will.
China reported a surge in exports, which could ease the damage from weakness in the domestic economy, but also increase trade tensions with the West.
Public records and interviews with relatives and neighbors of Pedro Hernandez, who confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, indicate a life of turbulence.
The contenders for Mexico’s presidency have promised to shift its antidrug strategy toward reducing violence there rather than blocking the flow of drugs to the United States.
With help from high-priced advisers, President Bashar al-Assad and his wife tried to portray themselves as progressive, and even glamorous, in the Western news media.
Bubba Watson, an unconventional golfer who has described himself as a “new-age redneck,” has gone through a crash course in fame after his remarkable victory in the Masters.
The bittersweet romantic musical “Once” was the unexpectedly dominant winner at the 66th annual Tony Awards on Sunday night, winning best musical, best actor and six other Tonys in a highly competitive year for Broadway honors.
The Kremlin raised pressure on Russia’s opposition movement on Monday, searching the homes of several of its leading figures ahead of a large demonstration in central Moscow planned for Tuesday.
Stocks in the United States and Europe fell and borrowing costs soared for some of the euro zone’s most indebted members.
New experiments have found success in reducing congestion not by assessing fees but by offering discounts or cash to get drivers to change their habits.