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Fifty years after Fidel Castro rid Cuba of golf courses, developers say the country’s government has given preliminary approval for four large luxury golf resorts on the island.
From the start (political orders in Brussels) to the finish (striking targets in Tripoli), there is nothing simple about NATO’s nightly bombing campaign.
Kathy Hochul’s victory in a conservative New York district deals a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare.
To the long list of rich-guy foibles that turned into defining campaign moments, let us now add Newt Gingrich’s $500,000 revolving line of credit at Tiffany.
The plan advanced by House Republicans to reshape Medicare was defeated, with five Republicans opposing it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 25, 2011, covering May 25, 2011.
Adele
Various Artists
The Lonely Island
Christina Perri
Tyler| the Creator
2011Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1944)[†]
Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy style of bowling, but he was also a handy lower-order batsman. In his latter years he was a leg-spin coach to many players around the world, and a great influence on Shane Warne. He was also a radio cricket commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
2011Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.[†]
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and media proprietor. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African-American of the 20th century and was once the world's only Black billionaire. By 2007, she was often ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]