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The United States used goals by Jermaine Jones and Clint Dempsey to take a 2-1 lead, but a stoppage-time goal by Silvestre Varela gave Portugal a 2-2 tie in Manaus, Brazil, on Sunday.
Quirky, a start-up, is setting up a separate company, Wink, whose main technology is software intended to help seamlessly connect all kinds of automated home devices.
A New York City school composting program aims to help the environment, instill a sense of conservation in schoolchildren, and, critically, save some money.
“Here Lies Love” and several upcoming revivals have increased the demand for Asian-American actors, and Asians are landing roles that traditionally go to non-Asians.
A kidnapping highlights the huge gulf, political and psychological, between long-warring neighbors and is raising fears of a third intifada in the Palestinian territories.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 2014, covering June 23, 2014.
Miranda Lambert
Soundtrack
Brantley Gilbert
50 Cent
Coldplay
2014Nancy Garden, American author (born 1938)[†]
Nancy Garden was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults, best known for the lesbian novel Annie on My Mind. She received the 2003 Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association recognizing her lifetime contribution in writing for teens, citing Annie alone.
2014Euros Lewis, Welsh cricketer (born 1942)[†]
Euros John Lewis was a Welsh cricketer. Lewis was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.
2014Paula Kent Meehan, American businesswoman, co-founded Redken (born 1931)[†]
Paula Jane Meehan was an American businesswoman, executive and philanthropist. She co-founded the Redken hair care products company. She briefly worked as an actress and fashion model.
2014The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.[†]
Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria beginning in the mid-1980s. For some time, Syria was believed to have the world's third-largest stockpile of chemical weapons, after the United States and Russia. Prior to September 2013 Syria had not publicly admitted to possessing chemical weapons, although Western intelligence services believed it to hold one of the world's largest stockpiles. In September 2013, French intelligence put the Syrian stockpile at 1,000 tonnes, including Yperite, VX and "several hundred tonnes of sarin". At the time, Syria was one of a handful of states which had not ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. In September 2013, Syria joined the CWC, and agreed to the destruction of its weapons, to be supervised by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as required by the convention. A joint OPCW-United Nations mission was established to oversee the destruction process. Syria joined OPCW after international condemnation of the August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack, for which Western states held the Syrian government responsible and agreed to the prompt destruction of its chemical weapons.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]