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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, Equatoguinean engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (born 1961)[†]
Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó was an Equatoguinean politician. He was the 5th Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea having served from 11 July 2004 to 14 August 2006. He was a member of the Bubi ethnic group.
2012Jan Carew, Guyanese author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)[†]
Jan Rynveld Carew was a Guyana-born novelist, playwright, poet and educator, who lived at various times in The Netherlands, Mexico, the UK, France, Spain, Ghana, Jamaica, Canada and the United States.
2012Jeffrey Koo Sr., Taiwanese banker and businessman (born 1933)[†]
Jeffrey Koo Sr. was a Taiwanese billionaire banker and the third-generation of the Koo Family who served as honorary chairman and governor of CTBC Financial Holding, and co founded Koos Group.
2012Huw Lloyd-Langton, English guitarist (born 1951)[†]
Richard Hugh "Huw" Lloyd-Langton was an English musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Hawkwind at various times. He also had his own band, The Lloyd Langton Group, and was the session lead guitarist for The Meads of Asphodel.
2012Pedro Vaz, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (born 1963)[†]
Pedro Humberto Vaz Ramela was a Uruguayan diplomat, politician, and lawyer. Vaz served as the Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay from August 31, 2009 until March 1, 2010. In 2010, President José Mujica appointed him Ambassador to Chile.
Ransomware — when a virus freezes a user’s computer and criminals demand money to unlock it — has become a lucrative online scheme.
Growing support for eliminating some of the tax breaks that high-income households get for charitable giving has some nonprofit groups worried.
Federal investigators have charged many former employees of SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund run by Steven A. Cohen, with trading on insider information.
The embrace from a broad swath of the rank-and-file may empower Speaker John A. Boehner as he negotiates on tax increases and spending cuts.
The rapid fall of David Mamet’s new play, “The Anarchist,” raises questions about business on Broadway, especially the producer-playwright relationship.
Mr. McAfee slipped over the border from his home in Belize, where police want to question him in a neighbor’s death.
President Mohamed Morsi vowed to proceed with a vote on an Islamist-backed constitution that has set off deadly battles between his supporters and opponents.
Bill Murray portrays Franklin D. Roosevelt in “Hyde Park on Hudson,” which depicts a dalliance with his cousin Daisy Suckley.
Some analysts are hopeful that the move by a big, innovative company like Apple could inspire a broader renaissance in American manufacturing, but a number of experts remain skeptical.
Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, has orchestrated a $135 million renovation and expansion of Yale’s museum complex.
Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, will lead the Heritage Foundation: a platform and a payday that the United States Senate could never provide him.
Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire founder of SAC Capital Advisors and owner of a rich trove of art, is a regular at Art Basel Miami Beach. But he’s absent this year.