World Population Will Reach 7 Billion -- CBS
The U.N. says the world's population will reach a milestone this Monday -- 7 billion people. Since 1927, our population has soared from 2 billion to 4 billion in 1974, and 6 billion in 1999. CBS News correspondent Russ Mitchell talks about the population increase with demographer Joel Cohen of Rockefeller University.
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Truce effort follows deadly violence on Israel-Gaza border.
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ASIA
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China to launch unmanned spacecraft.
Tensions mount in Thai capital as floodwaters devastate suburbs.
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AMERICAS
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