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A Mayawati statue near the Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow was beheaded in July 2012, days after the UP Navnirman Sena threatened to tear down her statues.

July 26, 2012 · 1 min read

Five things known about James Holmes after his first court appearance: his past, his dating profiles, and how he spent months preparing the attack.

July 24, 2012 · 3 min read

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

July 24, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 24, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

July 24, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

July 24, 2012 · 2 min read

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.

July 23, 2012 · 2 min read

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

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 23, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 23, 2012 · 2 min read

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

July 20, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 18, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 17, 2012 · 1 min read

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

July 17, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

July 17, 2012 · 2 min read

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.

July 16, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

July 16, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

July 11, 2012 · 1 min read