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Raise taxes and the rich will flee? The evidence on millionaire tax migration says the exodus is mostly myth — here is what the research actually found.

A Bombay High Court judge's 'be like Sita' remark to a wife in 2012 sparked a debate about mythology, marital endurance, and what courts owe women seeking

By 2012 up to 90% of young adults in East Asia were nearsighted; researchers blamed the indoor life and prescribed a fix: a couple of hours of sunlight daily.

A six-year-old suspended for singing an LMFAO song he didn't understand: what the 2012 case says about zero-tolerance discipline and young children.

Documents seized from Abbottabad showed bin Laden wanted Obama assassinated but Biden spared — judging the vice president too unready to inherit the presidency.

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.

In 2012 the Army was reported to be ending its colonial-era sahayak 'buddy' system. The promised end never fully came. What happened — and why the reform

The 2012 plan for free internet on Indian Railways was about more than passenger comfort: ambition, infrastructure reality, and the long road to railway Wi-Fi.

Bill Gates rendered in panels and speech bubbles — an Indian publisher's illustrated biography made the billionaire's story accessible to young readers.

Sachin Tendulkar's 100th international century (March 2012) and his 39th birthday — a look at the milestone that defined an era of Indian cricket.

A 2012 report told of an Indian worker returning home after 18 years of bondage in Saudi Arabia — a stark window into the Gulf migrant-worker trap.

In April 2012, Nupur Talwar challenged the non-bailable warrant against her in the Aarushi case — lost in the Supreme Court, and surrendered on April 30.

Salecia Johnson, 6, was handcuffed by Milledgeville police at her elementary school in April 2012 — igniting a national debate on discipline of young children.

Bookwallah, a Naperville-area children's book nonprofit, held a fundraiser on May 25, 2012 at the White Eagle Clubhouse to build orphanage libraries.

Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female

Americans abroad renounced citizenship in record numbers in the early 2010s — FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, and compliance costs drove the trend.

A 2012 editorial discussion asked whether civil-service vetting was re-victimizing child-marriage survivors — and why the law's letter can fail its spirit.

India tested the Agni-V ballistic missile on April 19, 2012 — a 5,000-km canisterized ICBM that brought Beijing within range for the first time.

Dhiraj Kumar's 'The Asocial Networking' examines the gap between the curated selves we post and the people we are in our living rooms.