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Bloomberg L.P. hastened to shield its lucrative terminal business and appease its subscribers after accusations of privacy violations.
The generic drug maker Ranbaxy pleaded guilty to federal drug safety violations at two of its plants in India and will pay a $500 million fine.
It may not be popular to say, but the incontrovertible fact remains that JPMorgan Chase has remained one of the best-performing banks on Wall Street under Jamie Dimon.
Nawaz Sharif’s previous term as prime minister ended when he was deposed by the military, and his new tenure may depend on how he gets along with the generals.
The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department had secretly obtained the phone records of its offices and journalists, calling it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 8, 2013, covering May 14, 2013.
Michael Buble
Fantasia
Justin Timberlake
Phoenix
Fall Out Boy
2013Wayne Brown, American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (born 1936)[†]
Wayne Brown was an American politician and accountant. Brown served for two, two-year terms as the Mayor of Mesa, Arizona from 1996 to 2000. He spearheaded the movement to building the Mesa Arts Center in downtown Mesa, now the largest performing arts campus in Arizona.
2013Arsen Chilingaryan, Armenian footballer and manager (born 1962)[†]
Arsen Chilingaryan was a Soviet Armenian football defender.
2013Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian author and activist (born 1939)[†]
Asghar Ali Engineer was an Indian reformist writer and social activist. Internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, he led the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement. The focus of his work was on communalism and communal and ethnic violence in India and South Asia. He was a votary of peace and non-violence and lectured all over world on communal harmony.
2013Ray Guy, Canadian journalist (born 1939)[†]
Ray Guy was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]