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Nicolås Maduro, the handpicked protégé of Hugo Chåvez, won an unexpectedly close race for the presidency. His rival demanded a recount.
Google has for the first time agreed to legally binding changes to its search results after an antitrust investigation by European regulators.
Afghans who worked for American forces have found themselves without military protection and facing a backlog for visas that could help give them protection.
American giants are benefiting from productivity gains and renewed growth in China and other overseas markets, allowing them to increase profits even if business at home remains lackluster.
Divisions over a measure to extend background checks for gun buyers are undermining support for what was seen as a compromise deal to ease passage of a broader bill.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 10, 2013, covering April 15, 2013.
Justin Timberlake
Lil Wayne
Blake Shelton
OneRepublic
Alan Jackson
2013Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1930)[â ]
Benjamin Fain was an Israeli physicist, professor-emeritus, and former refusenik.
2013Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (born 1946)[â ]
Richard LeParmentier was an American actor who lived and worked primarily in the United Kingdom, best known for his role as Admiral Motti in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and the acerbic police officer Lt. Santino in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). He is credited under several variations of his name, including Richard Parmentier, Rick Le Parmentier and Richard LeParmentiere.
2013Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (born 1928)[â ]
Jean-François Paillard was a French conductor.
2013Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.[â ]
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds and 210 yards (190Â m) apart. Three people were killed and hundreds injured, including a dozen who lost limbs.
2013A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.[â ]
A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 75 people and injured more than 356 others on 15 April. The attacks came just days before the provincial elections which was held on 20 April.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]