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Seoul, South Korea, has become a boomtown for American musicals, with producers opening Korean-language versions of hits and flops alike.
Speaking from experience, victims of the Madoff Ponzi scheme advise other investors to diversify their savings, focus on what really matters in life and resist giving up.
Black South Africans are still very far behind whites when it comes to income and education, and by some measures falling further back.
Ohio State needed a victory in the Big Ten title game to keep pace with Florida State and Auburn. Instead, Michigan State handed the Buckeyes their first loss under Urban Meyer.
Protests in Ukraine’s capital, which have grown for two weeks and seemed to reach new heights Sunday, show the depth of rage at Ukraine’s president, who has few palatable options to defuse the country’s crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 2013, covering December 8, 2013.
Eminem
Five Finger Death Punch
Various Artists
The Robertsons
Soundtrack
2013John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)[†]
Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., was an Australian–British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.
2013Sándor Szokolay, Hungarian composer and academic (born 1931)[†]
Sándor Szokolay was a Hungarian composer and professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest.
2013Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (born 1949)[†]
Richard Salisbury Williamson was an American lawyer, diplomat and political advisor. He previously served as Special Envoy to Sudan under George W. Bush. Williamson was a partner at Winston & Strawn and was also Thomas J. Sharkey Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Seton Hall's Whitehead School of Diplomacy.
2013Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.[†]
The 2013 Little India riot took place on 8 December 2013 after a fatal accident occurred at SST 21:23 at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in Little India, Singapore, causing angry mobs of migrant labourers from South Asia to attack the bus involved and emergency vehicles that had by then arrived at the location. About 300 migrant labourers were involved in the riot which lasted for around two hours. This was the second riot in post-independence Singapore, and the first in 44 years since the 1969 race riots. The riots led to stricter laws and higher penalties on alcohol consumption and sales, culminating in the Liquor Control Act in 2015.
2013Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.[†]
Metallica is an American heavy metal band. It was formed in Los Angeles in 1981 by vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career. The band's fast tempos, instrumentals and aggressive musicianship made them one of the founding "big four" bands of thrash metal, alongside Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. Metallica's current lineup comprises founding members and primary songwriters Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Guitarist Dave Mustaine, who formed Megadeth after being fired from Metallica, and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]