Here are your top highlights for this day in history for May 11, 2012: – Charges dropped against Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case – Garry Kasparov loses a chess match against IBM’s Deep Blue computer – Songwriter Irving Berlin born – Reggae star Bob Marley dies Mobile users: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLj9R3bh5yM

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One of France’s greatest chess players showed up drunk to an international tournament in Kolkata and dozed off after just 11 moves, losing the match on technical grounds. Grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev (pictured to the right) turned up for Thursday’s match against Praveen Kumar of India in such a drunken state that he had trouble sitting [...]

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