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Apple joined the list of companies that have disclosed information about government surveillance, but many questions remain unanswered.
Adrian Barrie Smith, who recruits housekeeping staff for the wealthy, has sued several well-known Wall Street financiers and even the comedian Jerry Seinfeld on charges of breach of contract and discrimination.
A commemorative euro coin with Christian imagery became the latest source of discord between the profoundly religious and those who prize a more rigid church-state divide.
Assistance for vacation properties is all but unheard-of in higher education, but New York University has given it to a number of executives and faculty members.
The fiscal crisis is setting up as a gigantic clash between bondholders and city retirees over what money Detroit has left to pay them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 12, 2013, covering June 18, 2013.
Daft Punk
Alice in Chains
John Fogerty
Little Mix
Blake Shelton
2013Brent F. Anderson, American engineer and politician (born 1932)[†]
Brent F. Anderson was an American politician and electrical engineer who served as the fourth mayor of West Valley City, Utah, from 1987 until 1994.
2013Alastair Donaldson, Scottish bass player (born 1955)[†]
Alastair Donaldson was a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, and was the bassist for the Scottish punk/pop band the Rezillos, for whom he played under the stage name of William Mysterious.
2013Garde Gardom, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (born 1924)[†]
Garde Basil Gardom, was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and the 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
2013Michael Hastings, American journalist and author (born 1980)[†]
Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and he attended New York University. Hastings rose to prominence with his coverage of the Iraq War for Newsweek in the 2000s. After his fiancée Andrea Parhamovich was killed in an ambush, Hastings wrote his first book, I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story (2008), a memoir about his relationship with Parhamovich and the insurgency that took her life.
2013David Wall, English ballet dancer (born 1946)[†]
David Richard Wall CBE was an English ballet dancer of The Royal Ballet, where he was promoted to the rank of principal at the age of 21, the youngest in company history at the time.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]