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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Nina Bawden, English author (born 1925)[†]
Nina Mary Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
2012Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal (born 1923)[†]
Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. was a cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was at times the bishop of Hualien and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and the chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University.
2012Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter (born 1926)[†]
Jeffrey Stone was an American actor and voice-over artist. Stone was the model and inspiration for Prince Charming in the 1950 Walt Disney animated feature film, Cinderella. While he did not voice the character in the film, Stone did provide some of the film's additional voices.
2012Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.[†]
In August 2012, a series of ethnic clashes between the Orma and Pokomo peoples of Kenya's Tana River District resulted in the deaths of at least fifty-two people. The violence was the worst of its kind in Kenya since the country's 2007–08 crisis, which left 118 people dead and more than 13,500 displaced – over 50% of the 13,500 were children, women and the elderly.
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A chain of islands at the center of a territorial dispute has Japanese nationalists pushing their country to boldly counter the explosive growth of China and South Korea.
Representative Todd Akin’s remarks on rape have focused attention on the party’s agenda on restricting abortion rights, a politically volatile topic for Mitt Romney and other candidates.
This summer’s pop hit, Carly Rae Jepsen’s cheerfully flirty “Call Me Maybe,” shows how much the hitmaking machine, and the music industry, have been upended by social media.
Data exchanged over the Internet can go only so far, so online dating services are hosting offline events to bring people together more quickly.
Advocacy groups say six popular Web sites have encouraged children to provide friends’ e-mail addresses without seeking parental consent.
Mary Frances Veeck and Wyonella Smith, both 91, share a long friendship nurtured over the years by baseball and their husbands who are honored in the Hall of Fame: Bill Veeck and Wendell Smith.
It’s been a long time since punk carried a sense of danger, and longer still since it carried the beat of political change.
In “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story” D. T. Max traces the career and truncated life of the novelist David Foster Wallace.
The government is trying to sell its preferred stock holdings of the smaller banks, but the potential losses from the auctions could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
An assessment of Ms. Diller’s comedy technique and career through the years. She died on Monday at 95.
Random genetic mutations in children that become more numerous with advancing paternal age may account for as many as 30 percent of autism cases, researchers reported.
Despite American-led efforts to marginalize Iran, Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, plans to attend the annual meeting of the Nonaligned Movement being held there.