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A beach-club celebration complete with whip and mask party favors is held for âWelcome to New York,â but the film has generated controversy in France.
Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will pay about $95 a share in stock and cash to acquire the countryâs biggest satellite television operator.
The American drug giant Pfizer has made an offer worth $119 billion in what it said was a final effort to bring the British drug maker AstraZeneca to the table for deal talks.
J. R. R. Tolkienâs translation of âBeowulfâ is being published on Thursday, 88 years after its making.
The city of North Miami and the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art there cannot agree on the museumâs future, leaving it in limbo.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 14, 2014, covering May 18, 2014.
Soundtrack
Lindsey Stirling
Ray LaMontagne
Passion
Iggy Azalea
2014Dobrica ÄosiÄ, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1921)[â ]
Dobrica ÄosiÄ was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician, writer, and political theorist.
2014Hans-Peter DĂŒrr, German physicist and academic (born 1929)[â ]
Hans-Peter DĂŒrr was a German physicist. He worked on nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, and he advocated responsible scientific and energy policies. In 1987, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "his profound critique of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and his work to convert high technology to peaceful uses".
2014Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1948)[â ]
Kaiketsu Masateru was a Japanese sumo wrestler, who reached the second highest rank of Ćzeki on two occasions. He also won two top division tournament championships. After his retirement in 1979 he became a coach under the name of Hanaregoma-oyakata and established Hanaregoma stable. He was also chairman of the Japan Sumo Association from 2010 to 2012.
2014Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Nigerian physician and academic (born 1921)[â ]
Chukwuedu Nathaniel II Nwokolo was a Nigerian physician specialist in tropical diseases. He was recognised for discovering and mapping out the area of paragonimiasis lung disease in Eastern Nigeria, with a study of the disease in Africa and clinical research for its control. He founded SICREP: Sickle Cell Research Programme to effectively fight the disease in Nigeria and globally.
2014Wubbo Ockels, Dutch physicist and astronaut (born 1946)[â ]
Wubbo Johannes Ockels was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload specialist. He later became professor of aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]