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Ms. Curry is known and liked by viewers, but making any change to the cast of “Today,” the most profitable television news program, carries some risk.
Officials want the military to use technologies like smartphones, video games and virtual worlds.
Manny Pacquiao’s style — part performance art, part technical wizardry, unique to Pacquiao — started with a videotape of the martial arts legend.
Dozens of universities eliminate low-profile men’s teams in an effort to comply with the antidiscrimination law.
“Fast Five” rocked Hollywood by selling almost $84 million in tickets, by far the biggest opening of the year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 27, 2011, covering May 2, 2011.
Foo Fighters
Adele
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Paul Simon
Mana
2011Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founder of Al-Qaeda (born 1957)[†]
Osama bin Laden was a militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars. Opposed to American foreign policy in the Middle East, Bin Laden declared war on the United States in 1996 and advocated attacks targeting U.S. assets in various countries, and supervised the execution of the September 11 attacks inside the U.S. in 2001.
2011Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan.[†]
Osama bin Laden was a militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars. Opposed to American foreign policy in the Middle East, Bin Laden declared war on the United States in 1996 and advocated attacks targeting U.S. assets in various countries, and supervised the execution of the September 11 attacks inside the U.S. in 2001.
2011An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others are taken ill.[†]
A novel strain of Escherichia coli O104:H4 bacteria caused a serious outbreak of foodborne illness focused in northern Germany in May through June 2011. The illness was characterized by bloody diarrhea, with a high frequency of serious complications, including hemolytic–uremic syndrome (HUS), a condition that requires urgent treatment. The outbreak was originally thought to have been caused by an enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) strain of E. coli, but it was later shown to have been caused by an enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) strain that had acquired the genes to produce Shiga toxins, present in organic fenugreek sprouts.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]