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In a conference call with executives, Uber presented a list of changes it plans to make to improve morale and repair its tarnished reputation.
The Supreme Court nominee also repeated his earlier private criticism of the president’s attacks on judges who rule against him.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index had gone 64 consecutive trading days without declining more than 1 percent in a trading session.
As mobile phone use grows, more young men are calling women at random, hoping to strike up a relationship, but sometimes harassing them.
Sometimes the only way to push technology advances is through rules. Loosening the ones on fuel economy could leave the car industry out of step with the future.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 22, 2017, covering March 22, 2017.
Ed Sheeran
Metallica
Bruno Mars
Future
Future
2017A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.[†]
On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Briton, drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, four of them fatally. He then crashed the car into the perimeter fence of the palace grounds and ran into New Palace Yard, where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer. He was then shot by an armed police officer, and died at the scene.
2017Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.[†]
The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war. The Syrian revolution lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]