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Diverging regulatory approaches to atrazine, a herbicide made by a Swiss company but not used in Europe, shows the hurdles in trade negotiations.
Starting next year, automakers will face tougher guidelines around how they conduct a test used in determining the mileage advertised to consumers.
If history is any guide, the ruling against American Express will not lead to the desired outcome of increased competition and lower prices.
Rage infuses this Labyrinth Theater Company production, about a woman with a love of reading and her gun who returns to her impoverished New England home.
On Monday’s show, Mr. O’Reilly played CBS News footage from 1982 that showed violent protests and quoted correspondents describing the scene, but former colleagues said his account was still flawed. (With video.)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 18, 2015, covering February 24, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Various Artists
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Fifth Harmony
2015Mefodiy, Ukrainian metropolitan (born 1949)[†]
Metropolitan Mefodiy was the Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Ukraine.
2015Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (born 1962)[†]
Rakhat Mukhtaruly Aliyev was a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who died in an Austrian prison awaiting trial on charges of murder. His trial was planned to start in Vienna in first half of year 2015. Austrian legal circles were giving much attention to this high-profile criminal case in which a former diplomat was facing murder charges.
2015A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.[†]
Metrolink is a commuter rail system in Southern California, serving Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, as well as to Oceanside in San Diego County. The system consists of eight lines and 69 stations operating on 545.6 miles (878.1 km) of track. This includes Arrow, which Metrolink operates under a contract with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA).
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]