It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist's World's Most Liveable Cities index in 2010 and being ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011 and again in 2012.

In 2011, Aon was ranked as the largest insurance broker in the world based on revenue.

Burkina Faso was ranked the 111th safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings.

In the latest ( 2011 ) Academic Ranking of World Universities, the university was ranked between places 201-300 of all universities in the world and at the same time by the QS World University Rankings the university was ranked 202nd in the world ( overall ),

In the latest ( 2011 / 2012 ) Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011 / 2012 Chalmers ranked between 226 and 250 of all global universities.

In the 2011 International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, which is established on the basis of the number of alumni holding a post of Chief executive officer ( CEO ) or equivalent in one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, Chalmers University of Technology ranked 38th in the world, ranking 1st in Sweden and 15th in Europe.

Caltech was ranked first in the 2011 – 2012 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities as well as ranking first in physical science and engineering.

Caltech was ranked 1st internationally in 2011 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Chicago the fourth most walkable of fifty largest cities in the United States.

Djibouti was ranked the 177th safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euromoney Country Risk rankings.

Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U. S. News & World Report when in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities.

" Internationally, Dartmouth College was ranked 99th in the world in the 2011 QS World University Rankings.

In 2011, the city was ranked 9th of major world cities on the Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle-Friendly Cities.

The 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 234th in the world.

In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Dalhousie tied for 6th in their 2011 Medical Doctoral university rankings.

Out of 50 universities in Canada, Research Infosource ranked Dalhousie University the 16th most research intensive school in the country for 2011, with a sponsored research income of $ 125. 147 million, averaging $ 124, 500 per faculty member.

The Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan ( HEEACT ) ranked Dalhousie 279th in the world and 12th in Canada for its 2011 scientific paper's performances.

In the most recent GFCI report of 2011, Gibraltar was ranked 63rd in the world, and 8th of the leading Offshore Financial Centres ( OFC's )

" In 2009 and 2011, Geneva was ranked as, respectively, the fourth and fifth most expensive city in the world.

The city is a major tourist destination for both domestic and overseas visitors ; Hamburg ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2011, and, in 2010, the city ranked 10th in the world.

, Harvey Mudd College is tied for 14th with Grinnell College, United States Military Academy, and Washington and Lee University among liberal arts colleges in the United States as rated by the U. S. News and World Report and as of 2011, is ranked as the best undergraduate engineering program at a school whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's by U. S. News & World Report.

There is a movement to petition the postmaster general to issue a U. S. postage stamp for him in 2011, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumter.

The second president was another member of the Union of Demicratic Forces-Petar Stoyanov and served until 2002, when the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-Georgi Parvanov began to replace him, he won two mandates and served until 2011, when Rosen Plevneliev of the right-oriented GERB was elected for a five-year mandate.

After expressing his interest to play in the 2011 fourth edition of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ), and despite not having have played active cricket for four years, Brian Lara still managed to attract the highest reserve price of $ 400, 000 ahead of the IPL players ' auction in early January 2011 ; however, no franchise bought him.

On 15 April 2011, a day before his 122nd birthday anniversary, Google celebrated him with a special Google Doodle video on its global and other country-wide homepages.

The Egyptian Revolution of 2011, inspired by the recent revolution in Tunisia, forced the resignation of President Mubarak and the Military Junta that succeeded him abrogated the Constitution and promised free and fair elections under a new one.

His declining production in 2011 and 2012 led to him being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68, 561, 000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era ( since 1991 ), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.

He has received several other honours and in 2011, the suburb of Brabham in Perth, Western Australia, was named after him.

Moon's legacy, as a member of The Who, as a solo artist, and as an eccentric personality, continues to garner awards and praise, including a Rolling Stone readers ' pick placing him in second place of the magazine's " best drummers of all time " in 2011, nearly 35 years after his death.

His translation work has also led him to appear as a character in three plays dealing with the King James Bible, Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn ( 2010 ), Jonathan Holmes ' Into Thy Hands ( 2011 ) and David Edgar's Written on the Heart ( 2011 ).

Rosenbaum reprised his role of Lex in the two-hour series finale, which aired on May 13, 2011, in which the memory of his immoral life is erased by his half sister Lustessa Lena Luthor before she dies in order to ensure that he cannot use his knowledge of Clark's secret against him.

2011 saw him rejoin Bestival as part of their " Ambient Forest " team.

An annual Navasota Blues Festival is held in his honor, and on August 12, 2011, a bronze sculpture of him was unveiled in Mance Lipscomb Park in Navasota.

Due to fear of the scientific community's reaction, it took him two years to publish the results for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011.

Before the 2008 presidential election he said, " On social issues, I lean Libertarian, minus the crazy stuff ," but said in December 2011 that if he were president he would do whatever Bill Clinton advised him to do because that " would lead to policies that are a sensible middle ground.

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

In 2011, Wade attempted to amend the Constitution to allow him to run for another term in office.

On Sunday, April 1, 2007, Major League Baseball's 2007 Opening Night, the Padres announced that they had agreed to terms on a four-year contract with 1B Adrian Gonzalez, keeping him in San Diego until 2010 with a club option for 2011.

In July 2010, a man was charged under the Highway Act 1835 in Barnsley for riding his Segway on the pavement, which led to him being prosecuted and fined £ 75 in January 2011.

He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Malone surpassed him in 2011.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U. S. ___ ( 2009 ), and Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U. S. ___ ( 2011 ), the Court ruled that admitting a lab chemist's analysis in to evidence, without having him testify, violated the Confrontation Clause.