Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.
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"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.
Most of the world learned of his living with the disfigurement and pain of oral cancer from a February 2010 article and photograph in Esquire magazine.
Christians, 33% of the world's population, make up nearly half of the world's 214 million living migrants, the study shows.
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In the less developed markets of the world, the cost perspectives, living and operating conditions and emissions regulations are closer to where they are in China than they are in the United States, Germany or Japan.
By then, England was the first country in the world where the majority of the population would be living in cities (albeit riddled with tuberculosis, for which a winter visit to the Alps in due course became de rigueur).
One of the world's most comprehensive cost of living surveys, Mercer's study takes 143 cities across six continents and compares the costs of over 200 items in each location.
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Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, who holds the distinction of being the world's oldest living person, is celebrating his 116th birthday on Friday.
All have had to cope with the most wrenching change any part of the world has had to endure in living memory, including the fastest population growth, the most rapid urbanisation and some of the biggest tides of immigration.
Around the world, higher standards of living are drastically reducing the number of children women have.
Paulo Coelho, the bestselling author whose novel The Alchemist has been dubbed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated book by a living author (into a total of 53 languages), recently wrote an article strongly advocating for online peer-to-peer book sharing.
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The world of digital living is changing rapidly, and that particular story feels old to me.
However, a new league table of the world's top living business gurus makes the case for another influence as being even stronger -- that of thinkers and professors at business schools.
With the reallocation of some 5 to 6% of the world's aid budgets, and using a self-help model, we could see a massive improvement in the living standards of the world's poor in the next 10 to 20 years.
Analysts say for foreign airlines such as AirAsia and Etihad, the attraction of India is its huge population--the second-largest in the world--and the growing number of Indians living abroad.
Seniors would do far better each choosing their own health insurers themselves in a competitive marketplace, which is the system that has generated the highest standard of living in the world in America for all goods and services.
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And it's the sort of two together that are making for the kind of complex world that we're living in today.
By 2025, 61% of the world's population will be living in cities of 1 million or more.
The African Union-led negotiations also cover other outstanding issues since secession, including the status of citizens of both countries who find themselves living on either side of the world's newest international border.
We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.
Decades after George A Romero scared the life out of cinemagoers with the classic zombie horror Night of the Living Dead (1968), the movie world has been plagued again with shambling corpses.
However, he is still several years behind the holder of the title of oldest living male in the world.
Soon he would, in the name of Empire, rearrange the living world.
Dr Richard Jolly, author of a United Nations Development Programme report comparing standards of living in the world's nations, has ranked the UK ahead of many of its European neighbours, in part because of improvements in its education services.
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This is only the latest challenge for the man described in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".
The economic fantasy world that pro sports has had the benefit of living in could be in for a bit of a jolt.
Faster and cheaper than traditional banks or companies like Western Union, these outfits reach parts of the world others cannot and are a lifeline for the millions of immigrants and guest workers living in rich countries who send money back home.
According to Mr Demombynes and Karina Trommlerova, also of the World Bank, 16 of the 20 African countries which have had detailed surveys of living conditions since 2005 reported falls in their child-mortality rates (this rate is the number of deaths of children under five per 1, 000 live births).
Nadesar--a classic example of Raj architecture and a royal palace from 1889 to 1931--sits smack in the heart of the world's oldest living city, Varanasi.
Port Talbot-born Vicari, who lives in Monaco, was once court painter to the Saudi Arabian royal family and government and is often described as one of the world's richest living artists.
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