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The Nets, inspired by a vibrant crowd at Barclays Center and lifted by their reserves and role players, beat Miami to cut their series deficit to 2-1.
Separatists in Donetsk and Slovyansk cast early ballots in support of local autonomy, but the U.S. and Europe condemned the vote and said they would not recognize the results.
A new study suggests that predictable social lives accentuate individual quirks and personal styles in spiders that live in groups.
Fouls, commercials and timeouts can prolong games like the one May 4 between the Nets and the Raptors, in which the final 60 ticks of the clock took nearly 18 minutes.
In “The Few,” a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, a publication editor and her eagerly awkward assistant react differently to the arrival of an old friend.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 2014, covering May 11, 2014.
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Future
Iggy Azalea
Pharrell Williams
August Alsina
2014Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa, DRC, in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.[†]
Kinshasa, formerly named Léopoldville from 1881–1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kinshasa is one of the world's fastest-growing megacities, with an estimated population of 17 million in 2024. It is the most densely populated city in the DRC, the most populous city and third-largest metropolitan area in Africa, and the world's twenty-second most populous city and fourth-most populous capital city. It is the leading economic, political, and cultural center of the DRC, housing several industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, banking, and entertainment. The city also hosts some of DRC's significant institutional buildings, such as the People's Palace, Palace of the Nation, Court of Cassation, Constitutional Court, African Union City, Marble Palace, Martyrs Stadium, Government House, Kinshasa Financial Center, and other national departments and agencies.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]