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Political insecurities have re-emerged over the possibility that Hsieh Su-wei, the first Taiwanese player to win a Grand Slam, could shift her allegiance to China as part of an endorsement deal.
For several years, the actuarial profession has been fighting over how to calculate the value, in today’s dollars, of future pension payments.
As a heat wave continued to bake the greens, Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood were in a group in second, a stroke behind Miguel Ángel Jiménez, through two rounds at the British Open.
A flurry of moves appeared to signal that the Securities and Exchange Commission was striking a harder line with Wall Street under its new chairwoman, Mary Jo White.
College graduates from two or three years ago are being overlooked — often deliberately — by recruiters eager to scoop up those from the latest graduating class.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 17, 2013, covering July 20, 2013.
J. Cole
Wale
Kanye West
Imagine Dragons
Florida Georgia Line
2013Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist and businessman, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (born 1926)[†]
Pierre Jacques Louis Fabre was a French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive and pharmacist, who founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre in 1962. Fabre, a rugby enthusiast, was also the owner of Castres Olympique, a French rugby union club based in the city of Castres.
2013Khurshed Alam Khan, Indian politician, 2nd Governor of Goa (born 1919)[†]
Khurshed Alam Khan was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party.
2013Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (born 1920)[†]
Helen Amelia Thomas was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps. She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
2013Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.[†]
On 20 July 2013, two clashes occurred in Colombia between government forces and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Nineteen soldiers were killed in the deadliest day since peace talks began in November 2012. The conflict came one day after a FARC-EP officer Alejandra had detained with a chain around the neck a vacationing U.S. Army Combat Engineer (12B) veteran, Kevin Scott Sutay including for his 27th birthday in the jungle on October 13 to try and further anger him intentionally.
2013Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn ends with the expulsion of Islamist forces from the city by the People's Protection Units (YPG).[†]
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict in Syria that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war that culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. All revolutionary factions were united into the Syrian caretaker government by 12 March 2025.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]