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In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]
2015Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (born 1936)[†]
Sir Martin John Gilbert was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust. He was a member of the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War.
2015Mary Healy, American actress and singer (born 1918)[†]
Mary Sarah Healy was an American actress, singer, and variety entertainer.
2015Charlie Sifford, American golfer (born 1922)[†]
Charles Luther Sifford was an American professional golfer who was the first African American to play on the PGA Tour. He won the Greater Hartford Open in 1967 and the Los Angeles Open in 1969. He also won the United Golf Association's National Negro Open six times, and the PGA Seniors' Championship in 1975.
2015Nasim Hasan Shah, Pakistani lawyer and judge, 12th Chief Justice of Pakistan (born 1929)[†]
Nasim Hasan Shah was a Pakistani jurist and served as Chief Justice of Pakistan. He is best known for his role in the verdict against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, which resulted in the death penalty.
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President Obama’s budget calls for a lower overall tax rate, but also for a one-time 14 percent tax on all cash sitting overseas.
The national debate on measles and immunization poses a challenge for Republican presidential hopefuls, who must reconcile modern science with the skepticism of their core conservative voters.
An overflow crowd of government regulators spent a day last month ticking off their demands before eventually negotiating a $1.37 billion settlement of an array of lawsuits against S.&P.
While the image of Governor Christie of New Jersey is that of a populist Everyman preaching austerity, he has long indulged luxury tastes, sometimes in ethically questionable situations.
New York’s attorney general said that tests on popular store brands of herbal supplements at Walmart, Walgreens, Target and GNC found that roughly four out of five of the products contained none of the herbs listed on the labels.
“Schitt’s Creek,” a new series starring Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy on the cable channel Pop, is a family collaboration.
The new book, “Go Set a Watchman,” focuses on the character of Scout as an adult, and was written in the 1950s. It will be published in July.
The chef Enrique Olvera brings his approach to Mexican cuisine north of the border to New York.
After a video appeared to show the burning of First Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh, Jordan executed Sajida al-Rishawi — who was convicted in a suicide bombing plot — and a top lieutenant of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
As the French operators of a popular historical theme park look to expand into Crimea, one question is, whose version of history will the park depict?
“Selected Letters of Langston Hughes” traces the writer’s career from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s through the arrival into the American consciousness of black nationalist firebrands in the 1960s.
Advocates of the eurozone have failed to grasp the crucial obstacle to their economic plan: Politics are still local.