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The F.D.A. is proposing rules that could stop manufacturers from selling a type of artificial hip that is failing early in many patients.
The rush of violent events has masked the fact that officials in Washington still have only an impressionistic understanding of the militant groups that have established a safe haven in Mali.
An internal report written by a management task force pointed to widespread failures regarding a bad bet on credit derivatives that cost JPMorgan Chase more than $6 billion.
The action was said to be a message that the board of JPMorgan Chase was a strong watchdog over the nationâs largest bank.
China is making a huge investment in its universities, hoping to leverage its enormous population into 195 million college graduates by the end of the decade.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 2013, covering January 17, 2013.
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Mumford & Sons
Taylor Swift
Phillip Phillips
One Direction
2013Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (born 1941)[â ]
Mehmet Ali Birand was a Turkish journalist, political commentator and writer.
2013Jakob Arjouni, German author (born 1964)[â ]
Jakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.
2013Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (born 1954)[â ]
Yves Debay, was a veteran French-Belgian war correspondent, who founded and reported for the French-language magazines Raids and later Assaut ("Assault"), which is published out of Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France. He was the first Belgian journalist to be killed in Syria.
2013John Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (born 1934)[â ]
John Landa Nkomo was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. After serving for years as a minister in the government of Zimbabwe, he was the Speaker of Parliament from 2005 to 2008. He was then appointed to the Senate in 2008 and was Minister of State in the President's Office in 2009. Nkomo was also a key figure in the Zimbabwe African National Union â Patriotic Front (ZANUâPF); he was National Chairman of ZANUâPF until December 2009, when he was elected as Vice President of ZANUâPF. As a consequence of his elevation to the party's vice presidency, he also became Vice President of Zimbabwe in December 2009.
2013Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (born 1926)[â ]
Betty Ethel Holton, better known by her stage name, Lizbeth Webb, was an English soprano and stage actress. Known as "the champagne soprano", she is remembered partly for originating the song "This Is My Lovely Day".
2013Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of Oprah's Next Chapter.[â ]
Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles in 2012 after an investigation into doping allegations found that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs over his career. As a result, Armstrong is currently banned for life from all sanctioned bicycling events.
2013Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in Petralona, Athens, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece.[â ]
Shehzad Luqman was a 27-year-old man of Pakistani origin who was murdered by members of Golden Dawn in the early hours of 17 January 2013 in Petralona, Athens.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]