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In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]
2011Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (born 1928)[†]
Royal Richard "Jim" Rathmann, was an American racing driver who competed primarily in Championship Cars. Rathmann is best known for winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1960, emerging victorious after a race-long duel with Rodger Ward – as recently as 2023, a panel of fans and historians voted Rathmann's victory as the greatest '500' of all time. In Europe he is well-known for winning the 1958 Race of Two Worlds.
2011Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.[†]
The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation. From Tunisia, the protests initially spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Rulers were deposed and major uprisings and social violence occurred, including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies. Sustained street demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. Minor protests took place in Djibouti, Mauritania, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Western Sahara. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām!.
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Italy has been able to rely on the large amount of government debt held by citizens, but financial officials have become fearful that Italians will begin sending their savings abroad.
In the whodunit of the financial crisis, the latest defense, surfacing in a fraud case filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is that federal regulators are to blame.
Regulators are hearing more complaints about “caller ID spoofing” or “call laundering” by telemarketers.
Brian E. Hayes has threatened to resign in order to block a plan by the National Labor Relations Board to adopt rules that would speed up unionization elections.
The outskirts of Tahrir Square plunged into chaos after attempts by Egypt’s military, religious clerics and doctors failed to stanch a fifth day of fighting.
If the agreement holds up, President Ali Abdullah Saleh would be the fourth leader forced from power this year by popular uprisings that have shaken the Middle East and North Africa.
New girls, broke girls, dumb dads, clueless bosses: everything old is new again in a supposed comeback season for sitcoms.
When we collapse on the couch after Thanksgiving dinner, there will be no fewer than five new, mostly holiday-themed cartoons taking over our televisions.
Lee Anthony Evans, charged last year with committing five cold-case murders that no one could prove ever happened, was acquitted at the end of an unusual trial.
In the winter, the city is illuminated and alive: restaurants are full, sidewalks are crowded and you can have St. Basil’s Cathedral all to yourself.
Trade groups representing retailers, convenience stores and grocers filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve, asserting that an additional variable fee violates the law.
Fair Trade USA, a leading advocate of the movement, said it would make far-reaching changes in the products that get its seal of approval. Critics accused it of watering down standards.