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As international powers intensify military and diplomatic activities in Syria, residents in besieged areas have gone without access to food and medicine.
Executives of the German automaker are embarking on what is perhaps the ultimate hard sell after having broken trust with consumers.
Prokhorov’s team, which went through a leadership shake-up on Sunday, can learn from its next opponent, the Spurs, and even a little bit from the Knicks.
After Rolling Stone magazine accepted Sean Penn’s pitch for an interview with the outlaw Joaquín Guzmán Loera, communications about the project became coded.
The United States is urgently warning the Iraqi government to prepare its people for the dam’s failure, fearing up to 500,000 could be killed if repairs don’t come in time.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 2016, covering January 11, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Chris Brown
Pentatonix
Soundtrack
2016Monte Irvin, American baseball player (born 1919)[†]
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin was an American left fielder and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who played with the Newark Eagles, New York Giants (1949–1955) and Chicago Cubs (1956). He grew up in New Jersey and was a standout football player at Lincoln University. Irvin left Lincoln to spend several seasons in Negro league baseball. His career was interrupted by military service from 1943 to 1945.
2016David Margulies, American actor (born 1937)[†]
David Joseph Margulies was an American actor. He is known for his role as Lenny Clotch, the Mayor of New York City in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), and his recurring role as Neil Mink on The Sopranos (2000–2007).
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]