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A plunge in oil prices has sent tremors through the global political and economic order, helping the United States but pushing several big oil-exporting nations to the brink of financial crisis.
Big tobacco companies are deploying their financial resources and knowledge in a bid to dominate a potentially huge market for cigarette alternatives.
Life for black officers, many say, has long been a delicate balancing act between fellow blacks and their police station houses.
The Neapolitan tradition of “suspended coffee” — paying for two, drinking one and leaving the receipt for the other for a stranger — has spread around the world.
Visitors check out the models at the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train show.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 2014, covering December 25, 2014.
J. Cole
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Carrie Underwood
AC/DC
2014Ricardo Porro, Cuban-French architect (born 1925)[†]
Ricardo Porro Hidalgo was a Cuban-born architect. He graduated in architecture from the Universidad de la Habana in 1949 and built this year his first project Villa Armenteros in Havana, following which he spent two years in post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism at the Sorbonne.
2014Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (born 1935)[†]
Geoffrey Pullar was an English cricketer, who played for Lancashire and Gloucestershire and in 28 Tests for England.
2014David Ryall, English actor (born 1935)[†]
David John Ryall was an English stage, film and television actor. He had leading roles in Lytton's Diary and Goodnight Sweetheart, as well as memorable roles in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Andrew Davies's adaptation of To Play the King. He also portrayed Billy Buzzle in the ITV sitcom Bless Me, Father and Frank in the BBC sitcom Outnumbered.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]