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With technical problems, management turmoil and losses, Fisker offers a cautionary tale of alternative-fuel vehicles and government subsidies for start-up businesses.
A series of financial shocks have jolted the economy in recent decades, but the experts are no closer to understanding how such problems develop.
Recognizing the growing market for vegan and vegetarian food, Organic Avenue, known for its juices, wants to extend beyond New York City.
The whistle-blower office is at a crossroads as some Wall Street firms make it legally difficult for employees to talk to it and lawyers criticize it for slow responses.
Once the search for the marathon bombing suspects focused on Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brothers’ social media postings provided a rich vein of material to mine.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 24, 2013, covering April 24, 2013.
Paramore
Brad Paisley
Justin Timberlake
Blake Shelton
Eric Church
2013A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.[†]
The Rana Plaza collapse occurred on 24 April 2013, when the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed due to a structural failure. The search for survivors lasted for 19 days and ended on 13 May 2013, with a confirmed death toll of 1,134. Approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building. It is considered to be one of the deadliest structural failures in modern human history, as well as the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history, and is the deadliest industrial accident in the history of Bangladesh. Amnesty International called it "the most shocking recent example of business-related human rights abuse."
2013Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.[†]
Maralbexi County, Bachu County, and Chinese: 巴尔楚克县) the former long Chinese name as well, is located in the southwest of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The county is under the administration of the Kashgar Prefecture. It has an area of 18,491 km2 (7,139 sq mi), and surrounds, but does not administer, the sub-prefecture-level city of Tumxuk. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 380,000.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]