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A lawsuit accuses Warner Brothers of stealing the screenplay of its 2012 movie “Trouble With the Curve” and of manufacturing evidence in their defense.
Every VW plant in the world has a works council that gives labor a voice at the management table. But selling the idea at its plant in Tennessee has been tough.
Stock prices surged as signs of a compromise emerged in Washington, but the air quickly went out of Wall Street’s balloon after it remained clear that a deal was not yet at hand.
In the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans offer name recognition and price advantages.
When Edward J. Snowden worked as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, he was suspected of trying to break into classified files, but a report was never forwarded when he left to become an N.S.A. contractor, officials said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 9, 2013, covering October 11, 2013.
Drake
Kings of Leon
Cher
Elton John
Jack Johnson
2013María de Villota, Spanish race car driver (born 1980)[†]
María de Villota Comba was a Spanish racing driver who competed in Superleague Formula and Euroseries 3000. She had an accident in straight-line testing as the Marussia Formula One team test driver, where she suffered serious head and facial injuries, and died one year later.
2013Erich Priebke, German captain (born 1913)[†]
Erich Priebke was a German mid-level Schutzstaffel (SS) commander in the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German SS Police Regiment Bozen. Priebke was one of the men held responsible for this mass execution. After the end of World War II in Europe, he fled to Argentina, where he lived for almost 50 years.
2013A migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily, with at least 359 people drowning.[†]
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[†]