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An imaginative “Giulio Cesare” at the Metropolitan Opera casts the Romans as British imperialists and the Egyptians as a motley crew of non-Westerners.
The Obama administration, seeing signs of Chinese frustration toward Pyongyang, is pressing China to crack down or face more of an American military presence in Asia.
The deaths of two horses at the Grand National meeting at Aintree Racecourse have dampened spirits before the main event and reignited concerns over the forbidding fences.
When basketball officials check a TV replay late in games, the unexpected stoppage of the clock can amount to an extra timeout — and a critical strategic gift for teams.
After the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, both parties in the state legislature agreed to find a gun solution together — but the process was fraught from the start.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 3, 2013, covering April 6, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
Kacey Musgraves
Bruno Mars
Luke Bryan
P!nk
2013Hilda Bynoe, Grenadian physician and politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (born 1921)[†]
Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe, DBE was the Governor of Grenada between 1968 and 1974.
2013Bill Guttridge, English footballer and manager (born 1931)[†]
William Henry Guttridge was an English professional football player and manager.
2013Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1946)[†]
José Juan Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion. His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had an international career and has made films in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English.
2013Ottmar Schreiner, German lawyer and politician (born 1946)[†]
Ottmar Schreiner was a German lawyer and left-wing politician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party, SPD.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]