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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
2013Ken Hutcherson, American football player (born 1952)[†]
Kenneth Lee Hutcherson was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985. His nickname from his NFL days was "the Hutch".
2013Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (born 1949)[†]
Ernest Arthur Graham Mackay was a South African businessman, former chief executive and chairman of SABMiller plc, a South African multinational brewing and beverage company registered on the London Stock Exchange, and the world's second-largest brewing company measured by revenues. He was succeeded as chief executive of SABMiller by Alan Clark in April 2013.
A surge in emissions — and criticism — has prompted energy executives to find ways to capture gas being flared during drilling in North Dakota.
For ABC, every important ratings measure in prime time is qualified by what amounts to a footnote: “not counting sports.”
The 40,389-mile Olympic torch relay to the Sochi Games in Russia, which hit a low point this week with the death of a runner, has proven to be an exercise in misfortune.
The bipartisan budget deal may not be a cure-all for the gridlock in Washington, but it provides a much-needed break in the inaction.
Two weeks before he takes office, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has yet to pick a schools chancellor to carry out his education agenda in New York City.
Rose Kuo, executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center since 2010, is stepping down.
Canada, Australia and dozens of other countries use polymer bank notes, and the Bank of England has just decided to make the switch.
An inquiry into Questcor Pharmaceuticals’ marketing practices has cast a spotlight on an open secret: The bulk of the contributions that help patients pay for medicines come from the drug firms themselves.
“Community,” which begins its fifth season on Jan. 2, finds its creator, Dan Harmon, still obsessing over the show’s details.
A panel of advisers urged President Obama to change the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone data of Americans, spies on foreign leaders and prepares for cyberattacks abroad.
The Federal Reserve said that it would gradually end its bond-buying program during 2014 but strengthened plans to hold short-term interest rates near zero.
Michael S. Steinberg is the highest-ranking employee at SAC Capital Advisors to become ensnared in a sweeping insider trading investigation.