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Researchers say a significant share of the bacteria in India — in its water, sewage, animals, soil and even its mothers — are resistant to nearly all antibiotics.
Eric Garner’s dying words as he was succumbing to a police officer’s chokehold reverberated in a wave of anger after a grand jury declined to indict the officer.
The United States Labor Department says that a new study shows that between 3 and 6 percent of all workers in both states are paid less than the minimum wage.
A $1 billion plan for hotels, shops and a gondola on the East Rim of the Grand Canyon is the latest in a line of contentious efforts to develop the national landmark.
The franchise with more N.B.A. Finals trips than any team besides the Lakers and Celtics is trying to return to greatness with a team built to lose.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 3, 2014, covering December 4, 2014.
One Direction
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Nickelback
Garth Brooks
2014Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic (born 1957)[†]
Claudia Emerson was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
2014V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian lawyer and judge (born 1914)[†]
Justice Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer Krishna Iyer was an Indian judge who became a pioneer of judicial activism. He pioneered the legal-aid movement in the country. Before that, he was a state minister and politician.
2014Vincent L. McKusick, American lawyer and judge (born 1921)[†]
Vincent Lee McKusick was an American attorney and Chief Justice of Maine. At the time of his death McKusick worked at the firm Pierce Atwood in Portland, Maine, as of Counsel.
2014Jeremy Thorpe, English lawyer and politician (born 1929)[†]
John Jeremy Thorpe was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979 and as leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979 he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder his ex-boyfriend Norman Scott, a former model. Thorpe was acquitted on all charges, but the case, and the furore surrounding it, ended his political career.
2014Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.[†]
The Caucasus Emirate, also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a jihadist organisation active in rebel-held parts of Syria and previously in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Its intention was to expel the Russian presence from the North Caucasus and to establish an independent Islamic emirate in the region. The Caucasus Emirate also referred to the state that the group sought to establish. The creation of Caucasus Emirate was announced on 7 October 2007, by Chechen warlord Dokka Umarov, who became its first self-declared "emir".
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]