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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]
2012ThĂ©ophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (born 1954)[â ]
Théophile Abega Mbida, nicknamed Doctor, was a Cameroonian football player and politician. Playing as a midfielder he was part of the Cameroon national team, playing all three matches at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and captaining the side to their first African Nations Cup victory in 1984, where he scored a goal in the final. He was nicknamed "The Doctor" in tribute to his footballing intelligence.
2012LuĂs Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (born 1976)[â ]
Luis Filipe de Sousa Carreira was a Portuguese motorcycle road racer. He died on 15 November 2012 after an accident during qualifying in the 2012 Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix.
2012Maleli Kunavore, Fijian rugby player (born 1983)[â ]
Maleli Kunavore was a Fijian rugby union footballer.
2012K. C. Pant, Indian politician, 18th Indian Minister of Defence (born 1931)[â ]
Krishna Chandra Pant was a Member of Parliament for 26 years and was the prime minister's interlocutor on Kashmir. He was a cabinet minister in the Government of India and held several constitutional positions over a period of 37 years. Pant had held the positions of Minister for Defence, Minister of state for Home Affairs, Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering, Finance, Atomic Energy and Science and Technology. He was the first chairman of the Advisory Board on Energy, chairman of the 10th Finance Commission and the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India, the economic planning body of India; his Vision 2020 document was published as India's Development Scenario, Next Decade and Beyond.
2012Frode ThingnĂŠs, Norwegian trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1940)[â ]
Frode ThingnĂŠs was a Norwegian jazz composer, arranger, conductor and trombone player who formed the Frode ThingnĂŠs Quintet in 1960.
2012Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.[â ]
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Since 2013, Xi has also served as the seventh president of China. As a member of the fifth generation of Chinese leadership, Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Herculaneum, despite having Pompeii as its neighbor, has become a textbook case of successful archaeological conservation.
Escalating losses on the home mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration are said to be depleting its capital reserves, leaving it billions short of projections.
Without offering new policy details, the president used a White House meeting to rebuild his relationship with business leaders.
Students from a school in Queens that was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy have a long commute to a temporary campus where some classes are cramped.
After going 20-6 last season with a 2.73 E.R.A., the knuckleballer R. A. Dickey of the Mets won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the National League.
An engaged couple takes a last swing at the wild side while visiting an awards ceremony for cinematic pornography in the Broadway premiere of âThe Performers.â
The corporation established elaborate procedures that placed more formal responsibility for delicate decisions in the hands not of individual managers, but of rigid hierarchies.
Israel on Friday said it was prepared to pause its assault during a visit by Egyptâs prime minister, a day after Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets and Israeli tanks rumbled toward the Gaza border.
The British oil company said it had agreed to pay fines and accept charges related to the rig explosion two years ago that killed 11 people and caused a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Wii Uâs main selling point is a new touch-screen controller that is a cross between the iPad Mini and a traditional video game controller.
An inquiry is now looking at activities in Brazil, China and India, along with Mexico, Wal-Mart said. Its quarterly results showed lower-than-expected sales.
The report from Congressional Republicans describes a âdisorganized and haphazardâ approach to oversight in the week before MF Global spun out of control. The report says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the S.E.C. failed to coordinate as the firm was on the brink.