Politics

A 2011 projection said India could become the world's second-largest trading nation by 2050. What it assumed, and what 40-year forecasts are worth.

Teenage girls are training as cartel hitwomen in Mexico, where organized crime has become an employer of last resort for the young.

Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki urged attacks on American business leaders and officials. He was killed by a US drone strike months later.

Hamas reported record attendance at its 2011 Gaza summer camps. Critics call them paramilitary training for children; Hamas calls it resistance education.

Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal imploded his career: the hacked-account lie, the looming resignation, and what it says about power and lying.

Ilyas Kashmiri was reported killed in a 2009 drone strike, then gave an interview. A June 2011 strike in South Waziristan may have finally got him.

At midnight on June 4, 2011, Delhi Police stormed Ramlila Maidan with tear gas and lathis, ending Baba Ramdev's fast against black money.

Baba Ramdev says he's not entering politics — just fighting corruption. In India, that distinction has never been as clean as it sounds.

Their husbands went to Tihar in the 2G spectrum scam. What happens to the wives left managing the fallout, the fees, and the silence.

In May 2011 Pakistan asked China to take over Gwadar port — and hinted at a naval base. Beijing said no. Inside the new Great Game.

Through most of 2011, political media obsessed over whether Sarah Palin would enter the 2012 Republican primary — until she announced in October she would not.

A Diebold technician stole $200,000 from Bank of America ATMs and replaced the cash with photocopied $20s. It took ten months to catch him.

In May 2011 Trump walked away from a 2012 run, mocked at the Correspondents' Dinner and eclipsed by bin Laden. Four years later, he didn't walk away.

Arrested at JFK in May 2011 and denied bail, the IMF chief resigned within days. The charges were later dismissed; a civil suit settled.

The 2011 Chicago trial of Tahawwur Rana put David Headley on the stand — airing evidence about the 26/11 attacks India couldn't get through its own courts.

Bin Laden's brief to his Yemeni matchmaker: a wife who was pious, dutiful, young — but above all patient. The story of Amal al-Sadah, married at 17.

Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda chief's fourth son, denounced the Abbottabad raid as 'criminal' and reserved the right to sue the U.S. over his father's killing.

After the 2011 raid, officials warned of retaliation and transit systems went on edge. When does 'see something, say something' become counterproductive?

From Chennai to Srinagar, funeral prayers for bin Laden divided India's Muslims in May 2011 — Geelani's call, Omar Abdullah's rebuke, and quiet resistance.

The UAE began issuing stapled visas to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir residents, including the region's 'prime minister' — echoing China's earlier row with India.