6. Norway massacre
10. U.S.-Pakistan
With the extensive discord, the United States is on shaky ground with a valued -- if not trusted -- ally even as it begins to withdraw forces from Afghanistan.
Timeline
Jan. 1: Estonia adopts the euro, becoming the 17th eurozone nation.
Jan. 2: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shakes southern Chile, sparking fear of a tsunami.
Jan. 11-12: Parts of Brazil get a month`s worth of rain in 24 hours, starting a flurry of floods and mudslides that leave 903 dead.
Jan. 24: Bombing at Moscow`s Domedovo Airport kills 37, injures 180.
Feb. 15: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faces trial on charges he paid a 17-year-old Moroccan girl for sex and then used his influence to cover it up.
Feb. 22: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Christchurch, New Zealand. Battered by a magnitude-7.1 quake six months earlier, the vulnerable, damaged city loses 181 people in the quake.
April 11: Ivory Coast`s former President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested at his home, clearing the way for internationally recognized election winner Alassane Outtara to officially take office, ending a civil war.
April 29: An estimated 2 billion people worldwide watch the wedding of Britain`s Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
May 26: Gen. Ratko Mladic, accused of genocide and other war crimes in the Bosnian War, is arrested by Serbian police.
June 2: Scientists blame Europe`s worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on "super toxic" E. coli bacteria that may be new. At least 18 are dead.
July 7: A life-saving windpipe transplant in Sweden is the first to use an organ grown entirely from the patient`s own stem cells.
July 9: Under terms of a January referendum South Sudan declares independence from Sudan.
Aug. 23: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is freed in New York after prosecutors question the credibility of the hotel maid who accused the ex-IMF leader of attempting to assault her in May.
Sept. 8: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calls for changes in the air transport industry as the country mourns a crash that killed 43 people, among them most of a top hockey team.
Sept. 10: At least 240 people are killed when a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar.
Sept. 21: Iran frees two Americans detained by border guards during a July 2009 hike, a month after convicting the two as spies; a third hiker had been freed previously.
Sept. 25: Saudi Arabia`s King Abdullah decrees that women will for the first time have the right to vote and run in local elections due in 2015.
Sept. 30: American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an accused al-Qaida terror recruiter with ties to would-be Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan and others, is killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
Oct. 3: An Italian appeals court overturns the murder convictions of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito in the 2007 slaying of Knox`s roommate Meredith Kercher.
Oct. 4: Islamist militia al-Shabaab carries out a truck bombing on the Mogadishu headquarters of the Somali transitional govern-ment, killing more than 100.
Oct. 7: The Nobel Peace Prize goes to three women: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkul Karman, who has long pushed for change in Yemen.
Oct. 11: Two Iranians are charged in New York with an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.
Oct. 12: Severe flooding threatens the Thai capital, Bangkok, and kills more than 650 people.
Oct. 18: Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for five years, is released in exchange for the release of 1,027 Palestinian and Arab prisoners held by Israel.
Oct. 23: A magnitude-7.2 earthquake hits the city of Van, eastern Turkey, killing 644 people.
Oct. 31: United Nations marks world population surpassing 7 billion.
Dec. 11: A U.N. climate conference reaches agreement on a far-reaching program meant to set a new course for the global fight against climate change.
Dec. 13: Physicists announce they are closing in on an elusive subatomic particle, the Higgs boson, that, would confirm a long-held understanding about how the universe`s fundamental building blocks behave.
Dec. 17: North Korea dictator Kim Jong-il dies; he is succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un.
1 comment:
Hey Jess, how are ya? I think I'll just read your "top stories" posts for all my news from now on, since I'm really bad about following current events! I know I should be better about it, but it's so depressing!
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