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In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[â ]
2016Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (born 1922)[â ]
Joannis Avramidis was a contemporary Greek-Austrian painter and sculptor. He was born in Batumi, on the Black Sea, in the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an Autonomous Republic of the former Soviet Union, to a family of Pontic Greeks, who had fled the repression of ethnic minorities in the Ottoman Empire in the turmoil leading up to the Greco-Turkish War.
2016Ted Marchibroda, American football player and coach (born 1931)[â ]
Theodore Joseph Marchibroda was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He played four years in the NFL as a quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Cardinals (1957). Marchibroda was later head coach of the Colts in two different cities and decades, first in Baltimore from 1975 to 1979 and then Indianapolis from 1992 to 1995. Upon joining the Baltimore Ravens in 1996, he became the only individual to serve as head coach with both of Baltimore's NFL teams and gained the unusual distinction of having three stints as an NFL head coach for two franchises in two cities, but with no two of those tenures being for the same franchise in the same city. His career NFL head coaching record was 87â98â1 (.470) and 2â4 in the playoffs.
2016Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.[â ]
On 15 January 2016, gunmen armed with heavy weapons attacked the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel in the heart of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. At least 30 people were killed, and 56 wounded; a total of 176 hostages were released after a government counter-attack into the next morning as the siege ended. Three perpetrators were also killed. The nearby YIBI hotel was then under siege, where another attacker was killed. Notably, former Swiss MPs Jean-Noël Rey and Georgie Lamon were killed at a restaurant during the attack. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Al-Mourabitoun.
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Chinese consumers are swapping mass-produced local beers for a bevy of imports and locally brewed brands, and a merged Anheuser-Busch InBev-SABMiller aims to capitalize.
Melancholy crosses genres. Adele, Nick Drake and Slayer are all mournful in their own ways.
Worsening economic conditions in 2010 led the Federal Reserve to act to try to avoid a new recession or a deflationary trap.
The Vermont senator faces a daunting problem even if he wins Iowa and New Hampshire: winning over African-American voters in the more diverse states to follow.
They are brazen, terse, edgy and carry king-size ambition through a city of extremes. On Friday, the residents took exception to Senator Ted Cruzâs recent remarks about âNew York values.â
A second year with no minority actors singled out for Academy Awards leads to finger-pointing.
JoaquĂn GuzmĂĄn Loeraâs meeting with the movie star Sean Penn gave the authorities a break they needed to help recapture him. So did a big order of tacos.
Despite being a rock legend, the musician was an apparition in Manhattan, able to walk the city streets unrecognized.
The mogulâs purchase of the Plaza Hotel in 1988 offers insight into the methods and thinking of a deal maker turned presidential candidate.
Advisers to Mrs. Clinton, including the former president Bill Clinton, believe that her campaign made serious miscalculations by failing to undercut Mr. Sandersâs message early in the race.
Delaying the completion of a project may actually make you more creative.
Iran has shipped most of its nuclear fuel out of the country, destroyed the innards of a plutonium-producing reactor and mothballed more than 12,000 centrifuges.