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The rise of Bank Rossiya, controlled by close friends of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, illustrates how he has enriched loyalists whose influence over the economy has helped him maintain his iron grip on power.
Downtown Hong Kong turned into a battlefield of tear gas and seething crowds on Sunday after the police moved against a student democracy protest.
Citizen scientists are hunting sprites, majestic emanations of light that flash for an instant high above storm clouds, whose effects on the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere remain an open question.
Tom Wheeler spent decades as a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries, experience from which he has drawn in creating highly scrutinized policy guidelines for ensuring equal access to online content.
Andris Nelsons went with a mixed program to start his reign as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 24, 2014, covering September 28, 2014.
Lecrae
Maroon 5
Jhene Aiko
Ryan Adams
Lee Brice
2014Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (born 1923)[†]
Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.
2014Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (born 1938)[†]
Joseph Hammond Alexander was a Colonel of the United States Marine Corps and historian.
2014Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (born 1928)[†]
Irene Sheila Faith was a British politician and dental surgeon. She served one term each in the House of Commons and European Parliament as a Conservative. She was a native of Newcastle upon Tyne and attended Newcastle upon Tyne Central High School and the University of Durham.
2014Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (born 1932)[†]
Charles John "Tim" Rawlings was an English footballer. A half-back, he made 231 league appearances in a 15-year career in the Football League. He made the bulk of these appearances for Walsall between 1956 and 1963, but also had six years without a game at West Bromwich Albion, and also spent two years at Port Vale. He helped Walsall to win two consecutive promotions from the Fourth Division to the Second Division in 1959–60 and 1960–61.
2014Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (born 1938)[†]
Petr Skoumal was a Czech musician and composer. He is best known as a composer of music for films and theatre performances.
2014The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.[†]
A series of sit-in street protests, often called the Umbrella Revolution and sometimes used interchangeably with Umbrella Movement, or Occupy Movement, occurred in Hong Kong from 26 September to 15 December 2014.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]