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In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]
2011Frances Bay, Canadian-American actress (born 1919)[†]
Frances Evelyn Bay was a Canadian and American character actress and comedian. In a career that spanned 35 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. Bay was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2008.
2011Four miners are killed in the Gleision Colliery mining accident in the Swansea Valley, Wales, UK.[†]
The Gleision Colliery mining accident was a mining accident which occurred on 15 September 2011 at the Gleision Colliery, a drift mine at Cilybebyll in Neath Port Talbot, in Wales. The accident occurred while seven miners were working with explosives on a narrow coal seam. Following a blasting operation into a separate disused flooded mine network to increase air-circulation, the tunnel in which the miners were working began to fill with water. Three of the miners escaped, with one being taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries, while the others were trapped underground. A search and rescue operation was launched to locate the four remaining miners, but they were found deceased the following day. The incident is the worst mining disaster to occur in Wales for three decades.
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The House is expected to pass a bill Thursday that will nullify an antiunion complaint by the National Labor Relations Board, which wants the work moved to Washington State.
Long repressed by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Islamists are now emerging as the best-organized political faction in the country, with influence beyond their numbers.
Bob Turner, who was to be sworn in as a 70-year-old Congressional freshman on Thursday, said he planned to fight to remain in Washington.
Republicans are hoping to seize on unhappiness among some Jewish voters over the president’s treatment of Israel.
The United Automobile Workers agreed early on Thursday to extend contracts with General Motors and Chrysler after new deals were not reached by a midnight deadline.
Online retailers in India are going to great lengths to gain customers by allowing them to pay in cash on delivery and by fielding couriers to help ensure quick shipments.
A thorough and memorable concert at Yankee Stadium let Metallica lord over its past as it headlined a seven-hour show with Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer.
A coordinated effort to provide an infusion of United States dollars to European banks — the first such show of force in a year — lifted global markets.
Leah Hager Cohen’s fourth novel weaves a complex pattern of light and dark, happiness and grief, in a 21st-century version of the family chronicle.
“Drive,” directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is about an unnamed virtuoso driver, played by Ryan Gosling, and his Chevy Impala getaway car.
The Toronto film festival has the latest technology and a wide range of films.
RIM blamed sagging sales of its aging line of smartphones for much of its discouraging financial news.