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President Obama plans to bequeath his successor — or perhaps his successor’s successor — a new-and-improved Air Force One for the smartphone age.
The retail giant forecast lackluster sales growth for this year and a steep profit dip for next, in part because costs are climbing sharply as sales are flat.
Cold weather and closing borders are complicating the arduous path from Syria and other war-torn nations into the heart of Western Europe.
Residents of rent-stabilized units in an East Village apartment building used cellphones and camcorders to record talks with their landlord’s agent, who they say tried to scare them into leaving.
As the use of instant replay grows in various sports, questions arise about when it can be overused and, perhaps, undermine the spirit of the rules.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 14, 2015, covering October 19, 2015.
Fetty Wap
Drake & Future
Don Henley
George Strait
The Weeknd
2015Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster (born 1919)[†]
William Edward Daley was an All-American fullback who played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1940 to 1942 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1943. The Gophers were national champions in his freshman and sophomore years.
2015Fleming Mackell, Canadian ice hockey player and singer (born 1929)[†]
Fleming David Mackell was a Canadian ice hockey forward who played with two Stanley Cup winners in his 13-season National Hockey League career.
2015Ali Treki, Libyan politician and diplomat, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1938)[†]
Ali Abdussalam Treki was a Libyan diplomat in Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Treki served as one of Libya's top diplomats from the 1970s till the 2011 Libyan Civil War. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1976 to 1982 and again from 1984 to 1986, and was later the permanent representative to the United Nations on several occasions. He was the president of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2009 to September 2010.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]