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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (born 1942)[†]
Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England instead of Queen Elizabeth II. From February 1960 until November 2002, he held the courtesy title Lord Mauchline.
2012Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915)[†]
Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang.
2012Michael J. Ybarra, American journalist and author (born 1966)[†]
Michael Jay Ybarra was an American journalist, author and adventurer whose non-fiction work appeared in various national publications. In 2004, his book about McCarthyism, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize. As the extreme sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Ybarra wrote articles about outdoor adventure, providing the genre with a wider audience than it typically receives.
An advocacy group for immigrant workers is pressuring Wal-Mart to improve working conditions at a Louisiana company and a dozen other suppliers.
Even if Republicans were to win the White House and a narrow Senate majority, undoing the major benefits and policies of the law would require the unlikely assent of Senate Democrats.
New York City is testing its first playground for adults, at Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx, hoping it will succeed where treadmills have failed in combating rising rates of obesity.
When the powerful financial services firm Goldman Sachs moved its headquarters to Battery Park City, it brought along a whole neighborhood, with plenty of amenities, and upended the old one.
In the swirl of publicity over long-ago cases of abuse at Horace Mann and Poly Prep is an underlying strain that says times were different and that a certain kind of ignorance prevailed back then.
Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states considered an option granted in the Supreme Court’s decision on the health care law.
With temperatures expected to soar on Sunday, more than a million people remained without power after deadly thunderstorms tore through the mid-Atlantic region.
A links golf course has opened on a remote island in Nova Scotia, and club officials are hoping that the far-flung locale will be part of its allure.
A former Countrywide Financial executive who won a wrongful-dismissal and retaliation case in February 2011 is still waiting for his $3.8 million award.
The Supreme Court has paved the way for an orderly rehabilitation of America’s gravely dysfunctional health care system, the writer says.
Big corporations, small-time businesses, rogues, scoundrels and worse — all have turned up at Delaware addresses, no questions asked, hoping to cover their tracks and skirt regulations.
The question of what to do about an accusation against Jerry Sandusky was extensively debated by Joe Paterno and Penn State officials, according to an independent investigation.