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After years of the industry making record profits both companies said that they lost money in the fourth quarter.
K&L Gates has set up the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project to fight the shame-posting of sexual photos and videos online by jilted lovers.
John Cosentino has spent 36 years at a Brooklyn institution. Now the state is moving disabled residents out. The change is wrenching.
Thwarting drones is increasingly becoming a challenge for law enforcement and security officials who are charged with protecting large-scale events like the Super Bowl.
Shake Shack is part of fast-food movement that has emphasized fresh food and friendliness, a tack that will value the company at around $745 million.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 2015, covering January 30, 2015.
Meghan Trainor
Taylor Swift
Kidz Bop Kids
Ed Sheeran
Mark Ronson
2015Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (born 1923)[†]
Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills, nicknamed the "father of the pill".
2015Ülo Kaevats, Estonian academic, philosopher, and politician (born 1947)[†]
Ülo Kaevats was an Estonian statesman, academic and philosopher.
2015Geraldine McEwan, English actress (born 1932)[†]
Geraldine McEwan was an English actress, who had a long career in film, theatre and television. Michael Coveney described her, in a tribute article, as "a great comic stylist, with a syrupy, seductive voice and a forthright, sparkling manner".
2015Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (born 1923)[†]
Gerardus "Gerrit" Petrus Voorting was a Dutch road cyclist who was active between 1947 and 1960. As an amateur he won the silver medal in the individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In his professional career Voorting won two Tour de France stages and wore the yellow jersey for 4 days. Voorting died on 30 January 2015 in his home in Heemskerk at the age of 92, within a week of two other members of the Dutch men's team pursuit squad, Henk Faanhof and Joop Harmans. He was the elder brother of Olympic cyclist Adrie Voorting.
2015Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (born 1935)[†]
Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev was a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who served as the first democratically elected and non-Communist President of Bulgaria, from 1990 to 1997. Zhelev was one of the most prominent figures of the 1989 Bulgarian Revolution, which ended the 35 year rule of President Todor Zhivkov. A member of the Union of Democratic Forces, he was elected as President by the 7th Grand National Assembly. Two years later, he won Bulgaria's first direct presidential elections. He lost his party's nomination for his 1996 reelection campaign after losing a tough primary race to Petar Stoyanov.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]