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Harvey outpitched the postseason veteran Jon Lester and threw seven and two-thirds strong innings, holding the Cubs to two runs and leading the Mets to 4-2 victory.
The countryâs currency has crashed along with its economy, despite an unchanging official exchange rate, transforming economic absurdities into daily hardships.
As Emanuel A.M.E. Church copes with the killing of nine members in June, it is seeing more white visitors, while its interim pastor faces questions.
In addition to doing good deeds, the foundation enhances the Clinton brand, never more so than while Hillary Rodham Clinton is running for president.
For the most part, owners are not required to have repairs made to Volkswagen cars whose emissions systems were modified to cheat federal tests.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 14, 2015, covering October 18, 2015.
Fetty Wap
Drake & Future
Don Henley
George Strait
The Weeknd
2015Robert Dickerson, Australian painter (born 1924)[â ]
Robert Henry Dickerson was an Australian figurative painter and former member of the Antipodeans group of artists. Dickerson is one of Australia's most recognised figurative artists and one of a generation of influential artists who include Ray Crooke, Charles Blackman, Laurence Hope, Margaret Olley and Inge King.
2015Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (born 1945)[â ]
Gamal al-Ghitani was an Egyptian author of historical and political novels and cultural and political commentaries and was the editor-in-chief of the literary periodical Akhbar Al-Adab till 2011.
2015Robert W. Farquhar, American engineer (born 1932)[â ]
Robert Willard Farquhar was an American mission design specialist who worked for NASA. He designed halo orbits and was involved in a number of spaceflight missions.
2015Frank Watkins, American bass player (born 1968)[â ]
Frank Watkins was an American heavy metal musician best known as a former, long-time bass player for the death metal band Obituary; he played with them from 1989 to 1997 and then from 2003 until 2010. He had been the bass player of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth at the time of his death, where he had been known as BĂžddel.
2015Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (born 1930)[â ]
Paul Noden West was a British-born American novelist, poet, and essayist. He was born in Eckington, Derbyshire in England to Alfred and Mildred (Noden) West. Before his death, he resided in Ithaca, New York, with his wife Diane Ackerman, a writer, poet, and naturalist. West is the author of more than 50 books.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]