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Prizes handed out this week for the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review began to set the stage for the Academy Awards in March.
India’s huge population, broad adoption of cellphones and low airtime rates could make it the world’s largest market for wireless money transfers.
A growing number of investors and home builders are turning new homes into rentals to fill in the blanks of unfinished subdivisions.
Repeated strikes against fast-food restaurants have called for a sharp minimum-wage increase, to $15 an hour, but the side effects of such a jump on prices and employment are unclear.
Under a government-funded program denounced by conservative politicians, the city of tolerance is giving alcoholics street-cleaning jobs and paying them partly in beer.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 2013, covering December 5, 2013.
Eminem
Five Finger Death Punch
Various Artists
The Robertsons
Soundtrack
2013Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (born 1917)[†]
Fred Bassetti was a Pacific Northwest architect and teacher. His architectural legacy includes some of the Seattle area's more recognizable buildings and spaces. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) described his role as a regional architect and activist as having made significant contributions to "the shape of Seattle and the Northwest, and on the profession of architecture."
2013William B. Edmondson, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (born 1927)[†]
William Brockway Edmondson was an American diplomat in the United States Foreign Service, who served as the United States Ambassador to South Africa from 1978-1981.
2013Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)[†]
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
2013Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.[†]
On 5 December 2013, a coordinated terrorist attack occurred targeting the Ministry of Defense complex in Sana'a, Yemen. Heavily armed militants utilized a car bomb to breach the gates of the complex before storming it and occupying a hospital within it. The attack, which killed 52 people and injured 167, was claimed by Ansar al-Sharia, an affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). AQAP later issued an apology for the attack after footage from within the hospital was broadcast showing the gunmen murdering medical personnel.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]