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Most analysts agree that SoftBank faces long odds as it seeks to compete in the American mobile market, but the company’s chief has been successful in taking on giant companies — and coming out on top.
Weapons formerly in Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s stockpile are making their way to antigovernment forces in Syria, financed largely by Qatar, which has strong ties with Libyan rebel groups.
Many of the people who are arrested in the Bronx are arrested again — and again — before the courts get around to meting out justice in the original case.
As Brazilian protests grow, even soccer comes under fire after Edson Arantes do Nascimento, the soccer legend known as Pelé, told Brazilians to “forget the protests.”
Perhaps more than at any time since the financial crisis, Wall Street knows it must prepare for a world without the Federal Reserve’s largess.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 19, 2013, covering June 22, 2013.
Queens Of The Stone Age
Daft Punk
Sleeping with Sirens
Blake Shelton
Darius Rucker
2013Henning Larsen, Danish architect, designed the Copenhagen Opera House (born 1925)[†]
Henning Larsen was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh and the Copenhagen Opera House.
2013Allan Simonsen, Danish race car driver (born 1978)[†]
Allan Weel Simonsen was a Danish racing driver, born in Odense. He died after a crash during the third lap of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]