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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Colin Horsley, New Zealand-English pianist and educator (born 1920)[†]
Colin Robert Horsley was a New Zealand classical pianist and teacher who was based in the United Kingdom all his working life. He had a significant artistic association with the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley.
2012Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (born 1937)[†]
Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp was an Austrian mountaineer.
2012William F. Milliken Jr., American race car driver and engineer (born 1911)[†]
William F. Milliken, Jr. was an aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver. He was born in Old Town, Maine.
A dizzying production celebrated the country’s present by including a flock of sheep, the Sex Pistols, Lord Voldemort and dancing nurses.
Palermo’s Pizza fired scores of employees at its Milwaukee factory, citing immigration violations, shortly after workers said they wanted to organize.
There is much that is not known about James Robert Williams, who has somehow become a major political benefactor despite living in a rather humble section of Queens.
An obscure branch of the Bureau of Land Management wields great influence on local land-use decisions in the state, usually to the benefit of the energy industry.
Apple, which has stumbled in its efforts to get into social media, has talked with Twitter in recent months about making a strategic investment in it, according to people briefed on the matter.
Tech companies that were thought to be the foundation of a new Internet era declined this week.
From Texas to Illinois and across Aurora, Colo., families and friends were gathering for funerals and memorials for the 12 people who were killed on July 20 at a Batman movie.
Inmates were the audience for a performance of “Richard III” by the Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which is staging the play in unusual locations.
The family of Ms. Seelig, 22, says she suffered an agonizing death because the care she received at a struggling Brooklyn hospital was indifferent to negligent.
In areas of the city where gunfire is common, residents feel the strain and adjust their habits to survive, the perversions of civility that only guns can introduce.
Michael Phelps, the two-time defending champion in the 400-meter individual medley, finished fourth. His United States teammate Ryan Lochte won by nearly four seconds.
A four-month training program, taught in 27 cities worldwide, has one basic goal: to have each of its students start a fully operational company.