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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]
2013Sanan Kachornprasart, Thai general and politician (born 1935)[â ]
Sanan Kachornprasart was a Thai politician and military officer. He was deputy prime minister in the cabinet of Abhisit Vejjajiva, and was chief advisor of Chartthaipattana Party.
2013Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bangladeshi atheist blogger[â ]
Ahmed Rajib Haider was a Bangladeshi atheist blogger. He used to blog in the blogging communities namely somewhereinblog.net, amarblog.com and nagorikblog.com and used the pseudonym Thaba Baba.
2013A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.[â ]
The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT. It was caused by an approximately 18-metre-diameter (60Â ft), 9,100-tonne (10,000-short-ton) near-Earth asteroid that entered the atmosphere at a shallow 18âdegree angle with a speed relative to Earth of 19 kilometres per second. The light from the meteor was briefly brighter than the Sun, visible as far as 100Â km (60Â mi) away. It was observed in a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics. Some eyewitnesses also reported feeling intense heat from the fireball.
The Blackstone Group said it would keep most of its $550 million with SAC Capital Advisors for three more months, as the hedge fundâs clients faced a regularly scheduled quarterly deadline on Thursday to decide whether to continue investing.
In the gorgeous new production of âThe Glass Menagerieâ at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
Bankers and lawyers warn that it is still too early to declare a mergers-and-acquisitions boom like those during the junk bond craze of 1989, the dot-com bubble of 1999 and the leveraged buyout bonanza of 2007.
Pittsburgh has changed from an industrial city with many manufacturing jobs to a municipality with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as its largest employer.
Maureen OâConnor blamed an addiction aggravated by a brain tumor for a gargantuan spree that she financed in part by taking from her husbandâs charity.
Scenes from a city rocked by a shock wave when a meteor hit the atmosphere offered a glimpse of an apocalyptic scenario that scientists said had never before hurt so many people.
The problems Boeing is having with lithium-ion battery technology has led Airbus to change its plan, and use a conventional battery, made of nickel-cadmium.
Scottish whisky distillers are weighing a âbottle taxâ for companies outside the country that control about four-fifths of the global market for Scotch.
Several of this yearâs Oscar-nominated films raise the age-old question of whether white filmmakers are ready to grant agency to black characters.
In âIke and Dick,â Jeffrey Frank writes about the strange relationship that would help shape Americaâs foreign and domestic agenda for much of the 20th century.
Despite what low-tax advocates might say, jobs, cost of housing, family ties and climate tend to be stronger reasons for relocation, according to recent academic studies.
An Indiana farmer will face off on Tuesday against the worldâs largest seed company in a case that could deal a huge blow to the future of genetically modified crops.