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Turntable.fm and other new sites try to recreate the feeling of being with friends at a concert when listening to music at home.
For Rupert Murdoch, newspapers have been useful in wielding influence and are the very thing that brought his company into the cross hairs.
Speaker John A. Boehner’s ambitions for a budget deal quickly crashed into a divided, highly partisan Congress.
Through efforts like a Person Finder site and Street View recordings after the earthquake and tsunami, Google is finally winning over new friends in Japan.
A new admission process at medical schools involves a series of encounters meant to examine aspiring doctors’ ability to communicate and work in teams.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 2011, covering July 11, 2011.
Jill Scott
Bon Iver
Adele
Jackie Evancho
Justin Moore
2011Ninety-eight containers of explosives self-detonate killing 13 people in Zygi, Cyprus.[†]
On 11 July 2011, at Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, situated at Mari, Larnaca District in Cyprus, a large amount of ammunition and military explosives self-detonated, killing 13 people, including the Commander of the Cyprus Navy, Andreas Ioannides, the base commander, Lambros Lambrou, and six firefighters. A further 62 people were injured. The explosion was the worst peacetime military accident ever recorded in Cyprus, with a yield of approximately 481 tons TNT equivalent, as determined by the official investigation into the accident. It was the largest artificial non-nuclear explosion of the 21st century until the 2020 Beirut explosions.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]