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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (born 1934)[†]
Joan L. Krajewski was a Democratic politician and former member of the Philadelphia City Council who represented the Sixth District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for almost thirty years.
2013Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (born 1931)[†]
Medardo Joseph Mazombwe was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Zambia's first indigenous cardinal.
2013Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (born 1931)[†]
Bruce Churchill Murray was an American planetary scientist. He was a director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and co-founder of The Planetary Society.
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Many members of Congress who voted to eliminate over $500 million a year in federal government waste now want to reverse that move, demonstrating lobbyists’ muscle.
The Obama administration says the information it will make public will show proof of a large-scale chemical attack by Syrian forces.
Many Israelis said this summer had spawned an “I-told-you-so” sensibility among those skeptical about the Arab Spring, and a sense of relief that for now, the problems are elsewhere.
If talks to buy out Vodafone’s stake in Verizon Wireless are successful, Verizon would be able to shift from receiving dividends to being able to fully incorporate all of its profit.
For the artist Edmund de Waal, who is preparing for his first exhibition in the United States, “pots turn into words, and words turn into pots.”
The settlement, between the N.F.L. and more than 4,500 players suing over head trauma, provides for medical exams and concussion-related compensation.
Many Syrians are bracing for the worst, some with a deep sense of fatalism, and the expectation of imminent strikes has halted normal life.
The Nasdaq OMX Group attributed last week’s three-hour trading halt a surge of data that overwhelmed its server, in the stock market operator’s most detailed accounting yet of the market outage.
In J. M. Coetzee’s starkly narrated new novel, a man takes a child under his protection in an unnamed country.
President Obama is ready to pursue a limited military strike even with a rejection of such action by Britain and mounting questions from Congress, officials said.
The U. S. and the International Monetary Fund are concerned about a decision that would force Argentina to pay all its creditors equally and hold processing banks responsible if the country did not.
Four French TV dramas serve up the most common themes — crime, war, sex and the occult — in fresh and unexpected ways.