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Days after President Obama vowed to apprehend those behind the Sept. 11 attack on American diplomats, a suspected ringleader spent an evening at a luxury hotel full of journalists.
Just four months after a much-hyped introduction, the video chat company has laid off employees and is tweaking its features.
The Yankees, the richest and most accomplished team in baseball, were swept from the postseason on Thursday by the Detroit Tigers, who now advance to the World Series.
In Colorado, Florida and Nevada, ads and volunteers are being dispatched to make cases for President Obama and Mitt Romney.
Greg Smith’s reminiscences of the pleasures of the job but does not seem to break much new ground on questionable practices at Goldman Sachs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 17, 2012, covering October 19, 2012.
Mumford & Sons
Muse
Miguel
P!nk
Three Days Grace
2012Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1922)[†]
Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was a Canadian lawyer and politician who became the first Black Canadian to be a member of Parliament in the House of Commons, a federal Cabinet Minister, a Chair of the Worker's Compensation Board of Ontario, and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Alexander was also a governor of the Canadian Unity Council.
2012Wissam al-Hassan, Lebanese general (born 1965)[†]
Wissam Adnan al-Hassan was a brigadier general at the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the head of its intelligence-oriented Information Branch. Seen as a leading Sunni figure in Lebanon, he was also a key player in the opposition March 14 alliance without having a political position.
2012Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (born 1922)[†]
Wiyogo Atmodarminto or better known as Bang Wi, is an Indonesian military figure, diplomat and politician. He served as Governor of Jakarta, the country's capital, from 1987–1992. Previously, he served as the Indonesian Ambassador to Japan and occupied several important army posts. Wiyogo participated in the General Offensive of 1 March 1949.
2012Mike Graham, American wrestler (born 1951)[†]
Edward Michael Gossett, better known as Mike Graham, was an American professional wrestler who was the son of Eddie Graham.
2012Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (born 1920)[†]
Fiorenzo Magni was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.
2012A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.[†]
On 19 October 2012, Wissam al-Hassan, a brigadier general of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the head of its intelligence-oriented information branch, died along with several others killed by a car bomb in the Achrafieh district of Beirut. The killing of a senior figure closely linked with the anti-Assad camp in Lebanon led to immediate speculation that Syria, or its allies, were behind the attack in Beirut. Al-Hassan had also led the investigation that implicated Syria and its ally Hezbollah in the killing of the former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]