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| Libya blocks access to Internet Posted: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 The Libyan government has cut off Internet access in the country. The General Post and Telecommunications Company, Libya's main provider of Internet access, has ceased to function. It was shut down in response to the accumulation of citizen protests demanding the ouster of the country's president Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, who has been in power since 1969. More...   |
| NASCAR: Trevor Bayne wins the 2011 Daytona 500 Posted: Monday, February 21, 2011 Wood Brothers Racing driver Trevor Bayne, who qualified thirty-second, won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 2011 Daytona 500 held on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. This became his first win of his career, and his first at Daytona International Speedway. Throughout the course of the race there were 16 cautions and 74 lead changes among 22 different drivers. Bayne had only one start in the series before the race, and by winning it, became the youngest winner of the Daytona 500 in history at age 20. The win also gave Wood Brothers Racing their second Daytona 500 win, which their first was in the 1976 Daytona 500. Following Bayne, Carl Edwards finished in the second position, ahead of David Gilliland, Bobby Labonte, and Kurt Busch. Juan Pablo Montoya followed Busch in sixth, while Regan Smith could only manage seventh. More... |
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