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For months, Damascus has hunched in a defensive crouch as fighting raged in suburbs, but a rebel advance has created a new level of alarm and disorder.
After sweeping the market with the iPhone and the iPad, Apple has only one real competitor. And Samsung, unlike Apple, does think people know what they want.
In a trend that is surprising pollsters and jangling the nerves of Republicans, a majority of young people embraces President Obama’s notion that government can be a constructive force.
Perhaps the reason so many people are in the dark about deadly drone strikes is because they want to be.
President Obama signed a disaster declaration for Connecticut for the fifth time in three years, continuing a wearying loop of natural chaos and tragedy.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 6, 2013, covering February 11, 2013.
Gary Allan
The Lumineers
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Kidz Bop Kids
2013Rick Huxley, English bass player (born 1940)[†]
The Dave Clark Five, also known as the DC5, were an English rock and roll band formed in 1958 in Tottenham, London. Drummer Dave Clark was the group's leader, producer and co-songwriter. In January 1964, they had their first UK top-ten single, "Glad All Over", which knocked the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK Singles Chart. It peaked at No. 6 in the United States in April 1964. Although this was their only UK No. 1, they topped the US chart in December 1965, with their cover of Bobby Day's "Over and Over". Their other UK top-ten hits include "Bits and Pieces", "Can't You See That She's Mine", "Catch Us If You Can", "Everybody Knows", "The Red Balloon", "Good Old Rock 'n' Roll", and a version of Chet Powers' "Get Together".
2013The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.[†]
Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Upon his resignation, Benedict chose to be known as "pope emeritus", a title he held until his death on 31 December 2022.
2013Militants claiming to be from the Sultanate of Sulu invade Lahad Datu District, Sabah, Malaysia, beginning the Lahad Datu standoff.[†]
The Sultanate of Sulu is a Sunni Muslim subnational monarchy in the Republic of the Philippines that ruled the Sulu Archipelago, coastal areas of Zamboanga City and certain portions of Palawan in the today's Philippines, alongside parts of present-day Sabah and North Kalimantan in north-eastern Borneo.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]