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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician (born 1938)[†]
Sir Stuart Bell was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough from the 1983 general election until his death in 2012. He was known as the longest serving Second Church Estates Commissioner, serving in this role during the entire period of Labour government from 1997–2010.
2012Gary Collins, American actor (born 1938)[†]
Gary Ennis Collins was an American actor and television host. Throughout his career, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.
2012Tomonobu Imamichi, Japanese philosopher and academic (born 1922)[†]
Tomonobu Imamichi was a Japanese philosopher who studied Chinese philosophy.
Stephanie Cutter has emerged as President Obama’s one-woman attack squad, and in the process has become a polarizing face of a campaign that until recently had been dominated by middle-aged white men.
C. C. Sabathia, who allowed just one run to the Orioles, pitched a complete game as the Yankees advanced to the American League Championship Series, where they will play the Tigers.
Alex Rodriguez, 37 and owed at least $114 million for the next five seasons, can still contribute to victories, just not, perhaps, in the way the Yankees once expected.
Emma O’Reilly, who worked for the United States Postal Service cycling team, said she transported doping material across borders and distributed performance-enhancing substances to the riders.
After a deadly meningitis outbreak, some former employees described shortcuts at a drugmaker with many of the same owners as the New England Compounding Center.
In a weak housing market, with banks more cautious about lending, the role of the appraiser has taken on more importance.
A series of deaths involving a United States antidrug program in Honduras show what can go wrong when war tactics are used against a problem that goes well beyond drugs.
Thousands of homes were renovated using drywall from China, which is claimed to have emitted troubling odors, caused appliances to not work and brought on health problems.
Missouri is a swing state where even the name changes, and disagreement among residents over the pronunciation goes back more than a hundred years.
Some parents have banded together to show their displeasure with the emphasis on standardized exams in New York City schools by having their children boycott field tests.
Lost amid the election-year wrangling over the embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya, is a complex back story involving regional resentment against American private security contractors.
In an area with one of the city’s highest number of liquor licenses, a host of criminal activities bolster the idea that Times Square’s former seediness has found a new home.