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Angela Merkel faces far-reaching decisions about how to deal definitively with the debt crisis in Europe and whether to allow Greece to default.
AOL and Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch blogger, have parted over journalistic conflict of interest claims over CrunchFund, his venture capital company.
Money market funds have gradually grown wary of French banks, looking for safer places to park their cash.
The Libyan rebels’ unlikely victory over Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has propelled women in a traditional society into roles they never imagined.
Somewhere along the road from Washington to Broadway, the Kennedy Center production of “Follies” picked up a pulse.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 7, 2011, covering September 13, 2011.
The Game
Jay Z Kanye West
Adele
Barbra Streisand
Pistol Annies
2011Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer and journalist (born 1930)[†]
Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, alpinist, explorer and journalist. He was noted for many climbing achievements, including a solo climb of a new alpine climbing route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955, the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV in 1958, and, in 1965, the first solo climb in winter of the North face of the Matterhorn on the mountain's centenary year of its first ascent. Immediately after his solo climb on the Matterhorn, Bonatti announced his retirement from professional climbing at the age of 35, and after 17 years of climbing activity. He authored many mountaineering books and spent the remainder of his career travelling off the beaten track as a reporter for the Italian magazine Epoca. He died on 13 September 2011 of pancreatic cancer in Rome aged 81, and was survived by his life partner, the actress Rossana Podestà.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]