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A mass killing has revealed new depths of ruthlessness in Syria’s conflict, inflaming sectarian divisions and making any hope of reconciliation appear ever more distant.
A new institute, financed by the insurance industry, not only believes in global warming but also supports a carbon tax to combat it.
Scores of other countries have elaborate retirement schemes and policies that Americans could learn from to address some of the biggest pitfalls of their system.
Some older parents never got their fill of child-rearing; others never had children and finally have the time and means to try raising some.
It is now Jamie Dimon, not Lloyd Blankfein, who is caught in a harsh public spotlight, seemingly at odds with regulators.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 15, 2013, covering May 15, 2013.
Kenny Chesney
Michael Buble
Justin Timberlake
Fantasia
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
2013Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1946)[†]
Henrique Pereira Rosa was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as interim President of Guinea-Bissau from 2003 to 2005. He was born in 1946 in Bafatá.
2013An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.[†]
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The country covers an area of 438,317 square kilometres (169,235 sq mi) and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world. Baghdad, home to over 8 million people, is the capital city and the largest in the country.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]