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Libya is being torn apart by an escalating war among its patchwork of rival cities and tribes, and an assault that destroyed its main airport last month has exacerbated the nationâs divisions.
With Rafael Nadal at home, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray unsettled and Roger Federer now 33, this could be the right time for a major breakthrough on the menâs side.
Peter Theo Curtis was freed after extensive mediation by Qatar, which has negotiated the release of numerous Western hostages.
The Scots are voting for independence from Britain next month, and the referendum was a frequent theme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
âThe Bone Clocks,â David Mitchellâs latest novel and his most ambitious, provides the key to a larger narrative puzzle that he has been assembling across his books.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 20, 2014, covering August 24, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Godsmack
Spoon
5 Seconds of Summer
2014Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1923)[â ]
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough was an English actor, film director, and producer.
2014AntĂ´nio ErmĂrio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman (born 1928)[â ]
AntĂ´nio ErmĂrio de Moraes was a Brazilian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Votorantim Group, one of the country's largest companies, focused on metals, paper, cement and frozen orange juice. He was the grandfather of IndyCar Series driver Mario Moraes.
2014A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.[â ]
The 2014 South Napa earthquake occurred in the northern San Francisco Bay Area on August 24 at 03:20:44 Pacific Daylight Time. At 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), the event was the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The epicenter of the earthquake was located to the south of Napa and to the northwest of American Canyon on the West Napa Fault.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]