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The food company General Mills added language to its website to alert customers that they cannot take legal action against the company if they download coupons, enter a contest or connect with it in other ways.
With the countryâs long-troubled economy teetering on the edge of recession, average Russians are feeling the pinch, even before the bite of Western sanctions over Crimea.
A day after Detroit scaled back the large pension benefit cuts it had proposed, the bankrupt city fended off charges that it had caved in to retirees in ways that could come back to haunt it.
Critics claim the central bank has lost its independence under Gyorgy Matolcsy, whose policies have included aggressive rate cuts.
James Franco and Chris OâDowd both make Broadway debuts in the respectable, respectful and generally inert revival of John Steinbeckâs âOf Mice and Men.â
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 16, 2014, covering April 17, 2014.
Soundtrack
5 Seconds of Summer
Chevelle
Christina Perri
Shakira
2014Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)[â ]
Gabriel JosĂ© GarcĂa MĂĄrquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
2014Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (born 1922)[â ]
Bernat Klein CBE was a Serbian textile designer and painter. Based in Scotland, Klein supplied textiles to haute couture designers in the 1960s and 1970s, and later sold his own clothing collections.
2014Wojciech LeĆnikowski, PolishâAmerican architect and academic (born 1938)[â ]
Wojciech Grzegorz LeĆnikowski, was a PolishâAmerican architect, writer and educator. He oversaw and participated in the design and construction of numerous large-scale architectural projects around the world.
2014Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (born 1940)[â ]
Karpal Singh s/o Ram Singh Deo was an Indian Malaysian politician and lawyer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bukit Gelugor in the state of Penang from 2004 to 2014. During that time, he was also the National Chairman of the Democratic Action Party (DAP).
2014NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.[â ]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968â1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]