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Residents of Iguala, Mexico, searching for students who disappeared after a clash with the police, have not found them, but they have found mass graves.
More than 1,000 birch-bark documents have been uncovered after being preserved for hundreds of years in the magical mud of Veliky Novgorod.
The figure has raised concerns among some mental health advocates that too many people have been categorized as dangerous.
The extent to which video games have become part of mainstream culture in South Korea may be a sign of things to come in the West.
Wendy Whelan gave her final performances with New York City Ballet after a 30-year career that created roles for some of the most notable ballets of the 21st century.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 15, 2014, covering October 19, 2014.
Blake Shelton
Lady Antebellum
Barbra Streisand
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Prince
2014John Holt, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1947)[†]
John Kenneth Holt OD was a Jamaican reggae singer who first found fame as a member of The Paragons, before establishing himself as a solo artist.
2014Stephen Paulus, American composer (born 1949)[†]
Stephen Paulus was an American Grammy Award winning composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature.
2014Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist and composer (born 1954)[†]
Raphael Ravenscroft was a British musician, composer and author. He is best known for playing the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street".
2014Serena Shim, Lebanese-American journalist (born 1984)[†]
Serena Shim was a Lebanese-American journalist for Iranian state-owned Press TV. While covering the Siege of Kobanê as a war correspondent, she died in a car crash in Suruç, Turkey.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]