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As he prepares to make his presidential campaign official on Monday, Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida, finds himself part of a pack of candidates and the target of questions about his competence.
Six jurors decide which galleries get to show their art at this influential Swiss fair, where billions of dollarsâ worth of art is for sale.
A South African court issued an interim order to prevent the Sudanese president from leaving the country after the International Criminal Court sought his arrest on genocide charges.
Those between 65 and 74, supported by Social Security, pensions and investments, have fared better than most other groups outside the superrich.
The Supreme Court of Mexico has said laws on the books in most of the countryâs states are discriminatory, but gay couples still need costly injunctions from lower courts in order to wed.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 10, 2015, covering June 14, 2015.
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2015Richard Cotton, Australian geneticist and academic (born 1940)[â ]
Richard Cotton AM was an Australian medical researcher and founder of the Murdoch Institute and the Human Variome Project. Cotton focused on the prevention and treatment of genetic disorders and birth defects.
2015Anne Nicol Gaylor, American activist, co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation (born 1926)[â ]
Anne Nicol Gaylor was an American atheist and reproductive rights advocate. She co-founded the Freedom from Religion Foundation and an abortion fund for Wisconsin women. She wrote the book Abortion Is a Blessing and edited The World Famous Atheist Cookbook. In 1985 Gaylor received the Humanist Heroine Award from the American Humanist Association, and in 2007 she was given the Tiller Award by NARAL Pro-Choice America.
2015Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (born 1924)[â ]
Qiao Shi was a Chinese politician and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the party's top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, from 1987 to 1997. He was a contender for the paramount leadership of China, but lost out to his political rival Jiang Zemin, who assumed the post of General Secretary of the party in 1989. Qiao Shi instead served as Chairman of the National People's Congress, then the third-ranked political position, from 1993 until his retirement in 1998. Compared with his peers, including Jiang Zemin, Qiao Shi adopted a more liberal stance in political and economic policy, promoting the rule of law and market-oriented reform of state-owned enterprises.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]