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The office of District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault would not be a credible witness.
The F.D.A. received more than 5,000 reports since January about several artificial hip devices, more than it received about those devices in the last four years.
The character of the anti-Qaddafi movement is facing its first real test: Can they build a new government of unity, or will their own internal rivalries mean divisions in the new Libya?
How I wish that “Bluebird,” though efficiently directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, had left more of the revelations to Simon Russell Beale’s face and fewer to the script.
Fighting continued, with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi nowhere in sight.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 2011, covering August 23, 2011.
Adele
Eric Church
Trace Adkins
Mat Kearney
Soundtrack
2011A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington, D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at 200 million–300 million USD.[†]
On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT. The epicenter, in Louisa County, was 38 mi (61 km) northwest of Richmond and 5 mi (8 km) south-southwest of the town of Mineral. It was an intraplate earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Several aftershocks, ranging up to 4.5 Mw in magnitude, occurred after the main tremor.
2011Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.[†]
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan military officer, revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by Libyan rebel forces in 2011. He came to power through a military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]