Plenitude
The creative power of 8 billion people, plus news from Iraq and elsewhere
A baby girl in the Phillippines became the symbolic 8 billionth person on the planet, as global population reached a new milestone, just 11 years after it crossed the 7 billion mark. Vinice Mabansag was born at 1:29 a.m. local time in Manila, just as the United Nations projected the latest population record had been passed.
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