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In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
2014Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (born 1925)[†]
Cornell Borchers was a Lithuanian-German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in Istanbul (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.
2014Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (born 1925)[†]
Marco Cé was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Patriarch of Venice from 1978 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
2014H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (born 1940)[†]
Hans Ruedi Giger was a Swiss artist best known for his airbrushed images that blended human physiques with machines, an art style known as "biomechanical". He was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for the visual design of Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien, and was responsible for creating the xenomorph alien itself. His work is on permanent display at the H. R. Giger Museum in Gruyères, Switzerland. His style has been adapted to many forms of media, including album covers, furniture, tattoos and video games.
2014Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1934)[†]
Sarat Pujari was an Indian actor, director and producer in Odia film industry (Ollywood). He was originally from Jhaduapada, Sambalpur.
2014Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)[†]
Lorenzo Hormisdas Zambrano Treviño was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist. He took over Cemex, a regional cement company founded by his grandfather, and transformed it into one of the largest cement producers in the world by the time of his death. Zambrano also financed several cultural initiatives across Latin America and chaired, from 1997 to 2012, the board of trustees of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), one of the largest private universities in the region. He also co-owned Axtel, an important Mexican telecommunications company.
Time and again, when the government tries to insert itself between the Internet and its users, it gets clobbered. This could end up the same way.
In Chibok, Nigeria, where as many as 276 girls were taken by Boko Haram militants, a deep frustration is brewing over the slow government response.
The once wildly popular live music and talent contests on television seem to have run their course, as other genres have in the past.
The case against five security guards in the 2007 killings of 17 people in Baghdad once seemed clear-cut. But it has been undermined by the prosecution’s own mistakes.
Prompted by concern about brain injuries, the school board in the city of Marshall, in the gridiron hotbed of East Texas, eliminated the tackle-football program for seventh graders without much protest.
In recent years, revenue growth at IBM has been stubbornly elusive, and new technologies like cloud computing have risen to threaten the company’s traditional hardware and software businesses.
Although a primary rationale for charter schools is to test practices for wider public-school use, battles over space and money have inhibited attempts at collaboration.
BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse, facing the threat of criminal charges, made last-ditch appeals for leniency, according to people briefed on the matter.
Martin St. Louis scored on Mother’s Day, three days after the death of his mother, and the Rangers staved off elimination for the second straight game.
Leaders of the Working Families Party say Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has drifted too far to the right, and are privately talking about nominating their own candidate to run for governor this year.
Michael Devine, one of four plaintiffs named in the class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe, has asked the judge in the case to reject the settlement his own lawyers negotiated.
With “Daphnis et Chloé,” Mr. Millepied, who will become the director of the Paris Opera Ballet in the fall, has offered a solid work to buoy his reputation.