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A growing number of big American multinational companies have begun to suffer from lower oil prices and a strong dollar.
The film has admirers and won a Golden Globe, but some Russian detractors want it banned and accuse its director of acting under Western orders.
Ratings for the hip-hop drama lead the network and have increased steadily since the showâs introduction, lifting Fox out of last place in the network ratings war.
How a 24-year-old French guy went from a homeless entrepreneur to a social media celebrity in six seconds.
The missile strike was the latest in a string of events along Israelâs northern frontiers that have raised the risk of a broader confrontation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 2015, covering January 28, 2015.
Meghan Trainor
Taylor Swift
Kidz Bop Kids
Ed Sheeran
Mark Ronson
2015Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (born 1954)[â ]
Suraj Alao Abdurrahman, was a Nigerian Army general who served as the Command Officer in Charge of the Armed Forces of Liberia, with former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the Commander-in-Chief. According to then President Johnson Sirleaf, General Abdurrahman "was an exceedingly exceptional gentleman officer whose contributions lifted the Armed Forces of Liberia to professional greatness and emplace our military amongst UN peacekeepersâ.
2015Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930)[â ]
Yves Chauvin was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the Institut français du pétrole and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was known for his work for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis for which he was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock.
2015Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (born 1924)[â ]
Lionel Arthur Gilbert CF was an Australian historian, author, curator, lecturer, and biographer, specializing in applied, natural, and local history. Born in Burwood, New South Wales, he studied at Sydney Teachers College and, beginning in 1946, worked as a teacher and later a headmaster in state schools in various locations around New South Wales until 1961. In 1963 Gilbert graduated from the University of New England with a Bachelor of Arts in History. That same year, he was appointed a lecturer and curator at the Armidale Teachers' College Museum of Education, in which capacity he served until his retirement in 1984, overseeing several expansions of the museum and establishment of a historical research centre.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]