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The size of the contraction was roughly in line with the expectations of private-sector economists, but the slowdown is nonetheless a setback for the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
As more readers move toward online social networks, and as publishers desperately seek scale to bring in revenue, many have deplored a race toward repetitive journalism.
New Age retreats that offer yoga, meditation and spa treatments are cropping up in Assisi, Italy, a spot popular with Catholic pilgrims for centuries.
Employers of all types are using a wide range of technological tools to monitor workers’ efforts and motivate them.
A growing number of smaller airports coping with declining traffic are changing their names as airline consolidation funnels fliers to major hubs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 2015, covering August 17, 2015.
Jill Scott
Future
Lamb of God
Taylor Swift
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2015Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (born 1937)[†]
Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American actress who is best known for her role as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman. Other notable roles in her career include Dorothy Johnson in the 1963 movie It Happened at the World's Fair, Azalea Tatum in the 1964 movie Kissin' Cousins, and the green-skinned Orion Marta in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969).
2015Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German businessman (born 1933)[†]
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, often called "MV", was the Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Prior to his UEFA career, Mayer-Vorfelder was a politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, and served in the state cabinet of Baden-Württemberg from 1976 to 1998. He was later president of German soccer club VfB Stuttgart, and the German Football Association.
2015László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (born 1927)[†]
László Paskai, O.F.M. was a Hungarian cardinal of the Catholic Church, He served as the archbishop of Esztergom from 1987 to 2002.
2015A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.[†]
On 17 August 2015, a bombing took place inside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 125. Thai police were reported to have arrested two suspects, the second of whom confessed to having been the bomber. He later retracted his confession.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]