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Institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden have begun to adopt rules against this enhanced form of picture taking.
The police identified the suspect in Saturday’s attacks, at a cafe and near a synagogue in Copenhagen, as a 22-year-old with a violent criminal record.
Mr. McCartney performed a sudden show Saturday night ahead of a scheduled appearance Sunday on a “Saturday Night Live” special.
Mr. Levine’s work was vibrantly, angrily and often painfully alive with the sound, smell and sinew of heavy manual labor.
Mr. Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial heartland evoked the drudgery and hardships of working-class life in America.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 11, 2015, covering February 15, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Meghan Trainor
Sam Smith
Ne-Yo
2015Haron Amin, Afghan diplomat, Afghan Ambassador to Japan (born 1969)[†]
Mohammad Haron Amin was the Afghan ambassador to Japan and non-resident ambassador to Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore from 2004–2009. He is also known for his role as spokesman for the Northern Alliance during the U.S.-led invasion of his country after the events of September 11, 2001.
2015Arnaud de Borchgrave, American journalist and author (born 1926)[†]
Arnaud Charles Paul Marie Philippe de Borchgrave was a Belgian–American journalist who specialized in international politics. Following a long career with the news magazine Newsweek, covering 17 wars in 30 years as a foreign correspondent, he held key editorial and executive positions with The Washington Times and United Press International. Borchgrave was also a founding member of Newsmax Media.
2015Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)[†]
Steven Richard "The Matador" Montador was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 571 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres and Chicago Blackhawks before ending his career in 2014 as a member of Medveščak Zagreb of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]