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Federer, 33, is playing as well as he did at his peak, but in Sunday’s final he will face Djokovic, who is currently in his prime as the No. 1-ranked player in the world.
The pharmacy retailer that stopped selling cigarettes last year is also expanding its in-store clinics, a business well suited to the quickly evolving health care landscape.
Southern California’s hippie hideaway is welcoming, mostly, its newcomers.
European finance ministers could not agree on whether Greece should be granted its third bailout since 2010, leaving the Continent hours from what could be a historic rupture.
Williams has won the first three major tournaments of 2015, and with a victory at the United States Open she would become the first woman since 1988 to win all four in a calendar year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 2015, covering July 11, 2015.
Breaking Benjamin
Tori Kelly
Kacey Musgraves
Taylor Swift
James Taylor
2015Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (born 1928)[†]
Giacomo Biffi was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, having served as archbishop there from 1984 to 2003. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985.
2015Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (born 1959)[†]
Satoru Iwata was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer and producer. Beginning in 2002, he was the fourth president of Nintendo, as well as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nintendo of America from 2013 until his death in 2015. Iwata was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.
2015André Leysen, Belgian businessman (born 1927)[†]
André Leysen was a Belgian businessman. In 1951, he married Anne Ahlers, daughter of a shipping family from Bremen, Germany. Together they have four children: Bettina, Christian, Thomas, and Sabina.
2015Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from the maximum security Altiplano prison in Mexico, his second escape.[†]
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, commonly known as "El Chapo", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel. Guzmán is believed to be responsible for the deaths of over 34,000 people, and was considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until he was extradited to the United States and sentenced to life in prison.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]