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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and New York lawmakers are finalizing a surprise deal to extend a high-tax bracket first approved in late 2011 as a temporary response to disappointing revenues.
Bank customers will be allowed to stop withdrawals for high-interest payday loans and close their accounts sooner.
Rafe al-Essawi, until recently Iraq’s finance minister and one of the highest-ranking Sunni politicians, is now on the run from the Shiite-led government.
The producer of Monster Energy will no longer be required to tell federal regulators about reports potentially linking its products to deaths and injuries.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether a drug maker could be held responsible for severe injuries caused by its generic pain pill.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 2013, covering March 20, 2013.
Luke Bryan
Jimi Hendrix
Bruno Mars
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2013James Herbert, English author (born 1943)[†]
James John Herbert, OBE was an English horror writer. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 languages, including Chinese and Russian.
2013George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (born 1924)[†]
Wallace George Lowe, known as George Lowe, was a New Zealand-born mountaineer, explorer, film director and educator. He was the last surviving member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition, during which his friend Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known people to summit the world's highest peak.
2013Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (born 1929)[†]
Mohammed Zillur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the President from 2009 until his death in 2013. He was also a senior presidium member of the Awami League. He is the third president of Bangladesh, after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman, to die in office, while being the first to die of natural causes.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]