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Syria publicly admitted for the first time to possessing chemical and biological weapons in July 2012, warning they could be used against foreign attack.

How McDonald's turned its McCafé coffee line into a serious Starbucks rival — and won a Consumer Reports blind taste test on the way.

Jittery after Aurora, 100 moviegoers in Edgewater, NJ were evacuated from a Dark Knight Rises showing when a man opened the emergency exit mid-film.

A German court extended Apple's EU-wide ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 but let the redesigned Tab 10.1N stand, days before the US patent trial began.

Savannah Dietrich, 17, faced contempt charges for tweeting her attackers' names in defiance of a court order. On July 23, 2012, the charges were dropped.

In the Aurora theater massacre, James Holmes' 100-round drum magazine jammed mid-attack — a malfunction officials said likely prevented an even worse toll.

Oprah's 2012 India episode of Oprah's Next Chapter drew fierce backlash from Indian viewers over its 'still eat with their hands' moment and stereotyped gaze.

Amar Jyoti Kalita, the main accused in the Guwahati molestation case, surrendered to police in Varanasi after his photos went viral across social media.

Nouriel Roubini argued in July 2012 that the US recovery was a 'fairy tale', giving five reasons growth would slow to stall speed — and drag the world down

Karnataka ended the IT industry's decade-long exemption from the 1946 Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act — and Bangalore's software companies saw

Anne-Marie Slaughter's July 2012 Atlantic essay — written after leaving her State Department post for her family — argued that 'having it all' was never

In July 2012, Rotten Tomatoes suspended user comments on The Dark Knight Rises reviews after fans flooded critics with profane, threatening remarks — a first.

In July 2012, John McCain insisted his 2008 choice of Sarah Palin over Mitt Romney had nothing to do with Romney's tax returns — which McCain had seen 23

In 2011-12, guar gum prices exploded from Rs 30 to over Rs 500 a kilo as America's shale-fracking boom devoured the crop — turning Rajasthan's farmers into

RTI activist Akhil Gogoi claimed the July 2012 Guwahati molestation may have been a conspiracy targeting Assam's CM — an allegation, not an established finding.

In July 2012, the DoPT dismissed Maharashtra-cadre IAS officer L.V. Nilesh after a decade of unauthorized leave — spent working at Microsoft in the US.

NCRB data for 2011 put Delhi at the top of the list for crimes against children — 33,098 cases nationally, up 24 percent in a year.

In July 2012, Michigan couple Usha and Deepak Shah, both 63, were charged by US federal authorities with filing over $8.8M in allegedly false Medicare bills.

In July 2012, H. Sowmya Vishwanath, 25, was found dead at her Bengaluru home; her family alleged dowry harassment by her Accenture-engineer husband.

Dara Singh — champion wrestler, beloved Hanuman of television's Ramayan, and nominated Rajya Sabha member — died at his Mumbai home on July 12, 2012, aged 83.