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Despite high rates of obesity in the populations they work for, groups with a long history of funding by the beverage industry are now fighting measures like New York City’s stalled soda ban.
Google is expanding its office space and hiring engineers in the Seattle area to compete with rivals in the lucrative cloud computing business.
The Senate Banking Committee is expected to approve Mary Jo White, who provided few details of her plans for the S.E.C.
In what is expected to be his final year in office, President Hamid Karzai is intensifying his criticism of his American allies at a critical moment in their Afghan endgame.
As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s third term draws to a close, his assertion of mayoral power has suffered a series of high-profile setbacks.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 2013, covering March 13, 2013.
Bruno Mars
Atoms For Peace
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Hillsong United
2013Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (born 1957)[†]
Clive Ronald Burr was an English musician. He was the drummer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982. Together with fellow Iron Maiden member Dennis Stratton, he joined Praying Mantis for the recording of their 1996 live album Captured Alive in Tokyo City.
2013The 2013 papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.[†]
A papal conclave was held on 12 and 13 March 2013 to elect a new pope to succeed Benedict XVI, who had resigned on 28 February 2013. Of the 117 eligible cardinal electors, all but two attended. On the fifth ballot, the conclave elected Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires. After accepting his election, he took the name Francis.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]