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President Hassan Rouhani has identified water as a national security issue, and nowhere is the crisis more pronounced than at Lake Urmia, once one of the largest salt lakes in the world.
You’ve heard it all before, so airlines are enlivening their in-flight safety videos, while bringing buzz to their brands.
The Classic Stage Company’s “A Man’s a Man” is a hard-working though uninvolving production of this early work by Bertolt Brecht.
Two Landrieus face re-election in campaigns that are complicated by the currents of race and history that run through Louisiana, but also by national factors, chief among which is President Obama.
The company, whose camera has become a tool of choice for recording skiing, surfing and other adrenaline-soaked exploits, is now setting its sights on becoming a media company.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 29, 2014, covering January 31, 2014.
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Kidz Bop Kids
Beyonce
Jennifer Nettles
2014Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founded Anna Records (born 1922)[†]
Anna Ruby Gaye was an American businesswoman, composer and songwriter. An elder sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, she became a record executive in the mid-to-late 1950s distributing records released on Checker and Gone Records before forming the Anna label with Billy Davis and her sister Gwen Gordy Fuqua. Gordy later became known as a songwriter for several hits including the Originals' "Baby, I'm for Real", and at least two songs on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On album. The first wife of Gaye, their turbulent marriage later served as inspiration for Gaye's 15th studio album, Here, My Dear.
2014Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (born 1924)[†]
Abdirizak Haji Hussein was a Somali diplomat and politician. He was the Prime Minister of Somali Republic from 14 June 1964 to 15 July 1967.
2014Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (born 1921)[†]
Miklós Jancsó was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]