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The raid that killed Osama bin Laden has provoked a crisis of confidence for what was long seen as the one institution that held Pakistan together.
Many travelers have discovered that traveling to a strange place is much less daunting with mobile apps and social networks.
Several would-be presidents see David Barton as a source of historical and biblical justification for their policies.
Short-term measures may let the government keep paying its bills as late as Aug. 2, but the eventual cost could be vast and the damage difficult to reverse.
Syrian forces arrested scores of people in a broad campaign against men between the ages of 18 and 50, rights groups said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 4, 2011, covering May 5, 2011.
Adele
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Foo Fighters
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Britney Spears
2011Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (born 1901)[†]
Claude Stanley Choules was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the First World War from England, having served with the Royal Navy from 1915 until 1926. After having emigrated to Australia he served with the Royal Australian Navy, from 1926 until 1956, as a chief petty officer and was a naturalised Australian citizen. He was the last surviving military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919 and the last surviving veteran to have served in both world wars. At the time of his death, he was the third-oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia. He was the seventh-oldest living man in the world. Choules became the oldest man born in the United Kingdom following the death of Stanley Lucas on 21 June 2010. Choules died at the age of 110 years and 63 days. He had been the oldest British-born man; following his death, that honour went to Reverend Reginald Dean. In December 2011, the landing ship HMAS Choules was named after him, only the second Royal Australian Navy vessel named after a sailor.
2011Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (born 1924)[†]
Yosef "Yosale" Merimovich was a football player and manager. A one-club man, he played as a forward for Maccabi Tel Aviv between 1947 and 1958, winning six championships and six cups. Born in Cyprus, he represented the Israel national team at international level. He went on to coach both Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Israel national team on multiple occasions.
2011Dana Wynter, British actress (born 1931)[†]
Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress, who was raised in the United Kingdom and southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the 1950s. Her best-known film performance was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). A tall, dark, elegant beauty, she played both victim and villain. Her characters both in film and on television sometimes faced horrific dangers, which they often did not survive, but she also played scheming, manipulative women on television mysteries and crime procedural dramas.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]