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In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]
2016The foreshock of a major earthquake occurs in Kumamoto, Japan.[†]
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes were a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10 kilometres, and a foreshock earthquake with a magnitude 6.2 at 21:26 JST (12:26 UTC) on April 14, 2016, at a depth of about 11 kilometres.
The winding detours for drivers are focused on smaller areas and thus not drawing widespread outrage among Palestinians.
A juror in the trial of Mr. Liang, who shot Akai Gurley in a stairwell, is said to have hidden the fact that his father had been imprisoned for an accidental shooting.
Newly declassified and released records show in new detail how F.B.I. hackers worked to defeat encryption over a decade before the agency’s recent fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone.
The racial makeup of New York’s residential neighborhoods has gone mostly unmentioned as City Hall tries to spur construction of below-market-rate apartments.
Ms. Louis-Dreyfus, who plays President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy “Veep,” spoke with The Times about the real-world campaign and how politics increasingly imitates art.
Weed purveyors are counting on tourists to toke up. But a race through the offerings on a long weekend is almost enough to harsh your mellow. Almost.
The company is challenging the use of secrecy orders that prevent it from telling people when the government obtains a warrant to read their emails.
Not communicating to banks exactly what they need to do to get their bankruptcy plans to pass muster is frustrating, confusing and part of the plan.
As the profits flow in from sport utility vehicles, automakers are aiming for the luxury market, with fancy new models in development or already in showrooms.
This HBO docudrama sticks studiously to the record, but it clearly sits on Ms. Hill’s side, attentive to the media spectacle’s toll on her.
Mr. Levine, 72, has struggled to hold on to his position as music director because of health problems, including Parkinson’s disease.
As the vote on “Brexit” nears, an English Channel port is leaning toward Britain’s leaving the European Union and regaining control of its fishing grounds.