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The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed in August 2011 after prosecutors lost faith in their witness. What actually happened.
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The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed in August 2011 after prosecutors lost faith in their witness. What actually happened.

After a quadruple bypass and a stent, Bill Clinton adopted a plant-based diet and lost 20+ pounds. The story of the most famous vegan convert in politics.

Arrested before his fast could begin, Anna Hazare refused bail and stayed in Tihar — turning a protest into the defining political crisis of 2011.

Sony set Kathryn Bigelow's bin Laden film for October 12, 2012 — weeks before the election — after hosting an Obama fundraiser.

As CAG, Vinod Rai's 2G audit pegged the spectrum loss at Rs 1.76 lakh crore — and made a quiet auditor the most feared man in Indian public life.

FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life plus 20 years for sexually assaulting two underage 'spiritual wives.' The evidence included his own tapes and

Forty minutes, one compound, a decade-long manhunt: how SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on the night of May 1-2, 2011.

Rensselaer researchers found that once 10% of a population holds an unshakable belief, the majority follows. The finding came from network science, not

In June 2011, Rumana Monzur was blinded by her husband in Bangladesh. Some blamed religion; others asked if he was ill. The harder truth is neither.

Breivik's 1,518-page manifesto devoted 102 pages to India, praising Hindutva and seeking common cause. Why India's Hindu nationalists wanted nothing to do

In 2011, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy live-streamed his office 24/7 as an anticorruption experiment. Gimmick or masterstroke? We look back.

In 2011, a Colorado woman grabbed a TSA agent at Phoenix airport and called it protest. Was it courage, or just assault? The uncomfortable debate.

In a 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, Aatish Taseer — son of assassinated Pakistani governor Salman Taseer — traced Pakistan's obsession with India to its

On July 13, 2011, three coordinated blasts hit Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Dadar, killing 26. Mumbai's spirit answered — again.

In July 2011, after the U.S. froze $800 million in aid, Pakistan's defense minister threatened to pull troops from the Afghan border.

In 2011, The Economic Times reported that Chinese executives in India — some 60,000 strong — were choosing to stay. Warmth, it turned out, was the pull.

Osama bin Laden hid next to Pakistan's top military academy for years. The 2011 jokes wrote themselves — here is our lovingly illogical explanation.

In 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn looked like France's next president. A New York arrest ended that — and exposed how French political culture shielded

Jailed in the 2G case, DMK MP Kanimozhi broke down when her brother M.K. Stalin visited her at Tihar — their first meeting in over a month.

A Chinese official posted intimate messages to his public Weibo instead of privately, and became a symbol of corruption in the social-media age.