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The owner of a Chinese aviation company spent years taking data from Boeing on military aircraft and weapons, the Justice Department said.
The actor’s blistering attack on The Daily Mail and its reporting comes as the paper’s website continues its aggressive expansion in the United States.
The number of summer day camps has grown by 40 percent over the last four years, according to reports.
Afghanistan will conduct an audit of the eight million votes cast in a runoff for the recent presidential election, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday.
The huge exposure Univision received from the World Cup showed how the growth of America’s Hispanic population has reshaped the media landscape.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 9, 2014, covering July 12, 2014.
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
G-Eazy
Lana Del Rey
Soundtrack
2014Jamil Ahmad, Pakistani author (born 1931)[†]
Jamil Ahmad was a Pakistani civil servant, novelist and story writer. He wrote in the English language. He is known for his anthology, The Wandering Falcon which was short listed for Man Asian Literary Prize, widely known as Asia's highest literary award, in 2011. The book was also a finalist for DSC prize for South Asian Literature in 2013.
2014Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1924)[†]
Nestor Basterretxea Arzadun was a Basque artist, born in Bermeo, Biscay, Basque Country. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spearheaded along with other artists such as Jorge Oteiza, Remigio Mendiburu, or Eduardo Chillida, an avant-garde artistic movement concerned with the crisis of Basque identity, and formally a special focus on large volumes and the concept of emptiness.
2014Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (born 1927)[†]
Emil Bobu was a Romanian Communist activist and politician, who served as Interior Minister from 1973 to 1975 and as Labor Minister from 1979 to 1981. He was an influential figure in the later years of the Communist regime until his downfall during the 1989 Revolution.
2014Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (born 1919)[†]
Alfred de Grazia, born in Chicago, Illinois, was a political scientist and author. He developed techniques of computer-based social network analysis in the 1950s, developed new ideas about personal digital archives in the 1970s, and defended the catastrophism thesis of Immanuel Velikovsky.
2014Kenneth J. Gray, American soldier and politician (born 1924)[†]
Kenneth James Gray was an American businessman and politician. He was a veteran of World War II, and represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1974, and again from 1985 to 1989.
2014Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian journalist and politician (born 1950)[†]
Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya was a Russian and Soviet dissident, writer and liberal politician. She was the founder and the chairwoman of the Democratic Union party and a member of the editorial board of The New Times.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]