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In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]
2015HalldĂłr ĂsgrĂmsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1947)[â ]
HalldĂłr ĂsgrĂmsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.
2015Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (born 1926)[â ]
Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Franklin and Gosling, together with others by Wilkins, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA.
2015Jean-François ThĂ©odore, French businessman (born 1946)[â ]
Jean-François Théodore was a French businessman, President, Chairman and CEO of Euronext N.V., deputy CEO and Head of Strategy of NYSE Euronext Inc. for Euronext N.V and chairman of its Managing Board.
2015At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.[â ]
On May 18, 2015 a major landslide hit the town of Salgar, in Antioquia, Colombia. At least 78 people died in the disaster, making it the deadliest single-event disaster in Colombia since the 1999 Armenia, Colombia earthquake.
Once a butt of jokes, the low-end retailer has become Gap Inc.âs crown jewel under its leader, the former H&M executive Stefan Larsson.
The 2016 contenders are exploiting loopholes and regulatory gray areas to transform the way presidential campaigns are organized and paid for.
According to former insiders, company records and an analysis of its websites, a secretive software company is selling fake academic degrees on a global scale.
The Daily News, once a quintessential New York tabloid, is bleeding millions and looking for a buyer, once again.
As President Obama presses for the authority to negotiate new trade deals, Galesburg, Ill., illustrates why some economists have doubts about the effects of more global trade.
American Pharoah has some advantages in his quest for a Triple Crown, but plenty of other horses have had advantages, too.
Mayor Bill de Blasio remains popular with black constituents, but some community ministers and activists have complained that he has been slow to address their concerns.
This play about adolescent growing pains is a guilty memoir of a work by A. R. Gurney, revived at the Pershing Square Signature Center by the Signature Theater and Jim Simpson.
Healing the ache of saying goodbye to shows you savored with the balm of some other satisfying choices.
The actual selection of the winning teams will take place in strict secrecy before Tuesdayâs made-for-TV event.
âThe Daemon Knows,â Harold Bloomâs newest work of oracular criticism, contains close readings of 12 writers, including Whitman, Melville, Emerson and Faulkner.
After the performance, featuring a dozen male dancers, you may have left with flashes of body language in your head. Only on further recollection would you connect them to sound.