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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012Tatiana Egorova, Russian footballer and manager (born 1970)[â ]
Tatiana Egorova was a Russian footballer and manager. She played for CSK VVS Samara and Rossiyanka in the Russian Championship, and Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga, and she was a member of the Russian national team, with whom she played the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.
2012Chris Marker, French photographer and journalist (born 1921)[â ]
Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, AgnÚs Varda and Jacques Demy.
2012James Mellaart, English archaeologist and author (born 1925)[â ]
James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of ĂatalhöyĂŒk in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market. He was also involved in a string of controversies, including the so-called mother goddess controversy in Anatolia, which eventually led to his being banned from excavations in Turkey in the 1960s. After his death, it was discovered that Mellaart had forged many of his "finds", including murals and inscriptions from the ĂatalhöyĂŒk site.
2012John Stampe, Danish footballer and coach (born 1957)[â ]
John Stampe MĂžller was a Danish football player and coach.
The opportunities and the risks are greater for President Obama, who seeks to shape perceptions of Mitt Romney just as more voters are starting to tune in to the race.
A custody battle âbetween two diametrically opposed worldviews on parentage and familyâ touches on contentious social and legal questions over what happens to children when civil unions dissolve.
Even as the new health care law expands insurance coverage, another problem faces many areas of the country: a lack of physicians, particularly primary care ones.
The reigning world champion Jordyn Wieber, a gold medal favorite, left the Olympic gymnastics arena in tears after failing to qualify for the finals.
At a meeting this week, Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, faces the complicated task of delivering on his promise to do âwhatever it takes to preserve the euro.â
Vassily Sigarev, whose play âBlack Milkâ is now running in New York, tells violent and disturbing tales of life in post-Soviet Russia.
Yannick Agnel chased down Ryan Lochte of the United States to give France an Olympic gold medal in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay, reversing the result of 2008.
Rachel Joyceâs first novel contrives a way to shake a lonely English milquetoast out of his monotonous life and send him on a voyage of self-discovery.
âAbout Face: Supermodels Then and Now,â directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, consists of snippets of interviews with some of the best-known models of the second half of the 20th century.
A trial opening Monday is the latest phase in a global campaign of smartphone patent litigation whose importance goes beyond legal maneuvering.
Of the thousands of athletes at the London Games, Jacob Gnahoui, a practitioner of judo and Beninâs flag bearer less than 11 hours earlier, was among the first to be eliminated.
Kim Rhode, the gold medal winner in womenâs skeet, became the first American to win five medals in an individual event in five consecutive Olympics.