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A federal judge unsealed documents in a case involving a tech entrepreneur who refused to give the government broad access to data on users of Lavabit, his secure e-mail service, one of whom was Edward J. Snowden.
Facebook and Twitter are vying to become the nation’s digital water cooler as they woo networks and advertisers.
The Swiss banking giant, which manages $10 billion for the American commonwealth’s millionaires, began an internal investigation into the lending practices of some of its top-producing brokers.
A crucial witness said he lied nearly 20 years ago in giving evidence for a conviction handled by the former detective Louis Scarcella, whose cases and tactics are now being scrutinized.
The prospect of Congress failing to raise the nation’s debt limit has economists and investors exploring options the White House might have.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 2, 2013, covering October 3, 2013.
Jack Johnson
Justin Moore
Chris Young
Various Artists
Avicii
2013Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (born 1978)[†]
Sanni Sari Abacha was a Nigerian footballer who played as a sweeper. He died in 2013.
2013Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player and coach (born 1944)[†]
Sergei Alexandrovich Belov was a Russian professional basketball player, most noted for playing for CSKA Moscow and the senior Soviet Union national basketball team. He is considered to be one of the best European basketball players of all time, and was given the honour of lighting the Olympic Cauldron with the Olympic flame during the 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, in Moscow.
2013Joan Thirsk, English cryptologist, historian, and academic (born 1922)[†]
Irene Joan Thirsk, was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of agriculture. She was the leading British early modern agrarian historian of her era, as well as an important social and economic historian. Her work highlighted the regional differences in agricultural practices in England. She also had an interest in food history and local English history, in particular of Hadlow, Kent.
2013At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.[†]
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that many of the migrants were originally from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana. An emergency response involving the Italian Coast Guard resulted in the rescue of 155 survivors. On 12 October it was reported that the confirmed death toll after searching the boat was 359, but that further bodies were still missing; a figure of "more than 360" deaths was later reported.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]