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Crippled by bad loans and regulatory restraints, European banks are ceding ground to firms like Blackstone and others that can lend money like a bank but are not scrutinized as such.
Shoddy paperwork, erroneous fees and wrongful evictions — abuses that previously dogged the nation’s largest banks — are now cropping up among mortgage servicers that collect payments.
Canvassers deployed by groups supporting the Affordable Care Act are searching door to door for people who lack health coverage, with little success.
The technology, called pCell, is one of many techniques that companies are looking at to address the rising public appetite for mobile data, especially video.
Opposition leaders confirmed overnight that a truce had been reached with the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovych, but it was uncertain that any pause in the conflict would hold.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 2014, covering February 19, 2014.
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Bruno Mars
Toni Braxton & Babyface
Broken Bells
2014Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (born 1946)[†]
Kresten Bjerre was a Danish footballer, who played professionally for Houston Stars in the United States, and European clubs PSV Eindhoven and R.W.D. Molenbeek.
2014Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (born 1948)[†]
Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut, and naval flight officer who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the mid 1980s.
2014Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935)[†]
Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]