The world - March 24, 2011

THURSDAY

Diet Coke overtook Pepsi as the number two soda in the U.S.

The U.N. Security Council authorized a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” to protect civilians against the forces of leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Maine officials began paying hunters to kill coyotes in an effort to pump up the state’s whitetail deer population.

Utah named the Browning model M1911 automatic pistol as the official state firearm, the first state in the union to name an official gun. The gun, which turns 100-years-old this year, is made in Ogden.

FRIDAY

Forty Indonesians were trapped between lava flow...