World Politics

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh lay on a ventilator in a Lahore hospital after a jail attack, with conflicting reports over whether he was brain dead.

New Zealand's parliament voted 77-44 to legalize same-sex marriage — the 13th country in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific.

Fairview School in the Missouri Ozarks trained staff to carry concealed weapons after Sandy Hook — a 40-hour course with annual background checks.

Dubai police showed off a £360,000 Lamborghini Aventador at Dubai Mall — a supercar patrol car as much about marketing as catching speeders.

Schools Superintendent Jennifer Gray said she expects school board members to meet within the next two weeks to determine if disciplinary action is warranted…

David Coleman Headley received 35 years in a U.S. federal prison for scouting the 2008 Mumbai targets, spared the death penalty by his cooperation.

After France intervened in Mali in January 2013, Islamist groups tied to al-Qaeda pledged retaliatory attacks on French soil.

Two Chicago teenagers, 14 and 15, were shot dead hours apart on January 11, 2013, in Humboldt Park and Little Village, in separate attacks.

In January 2013, Joe Biden warned that Obama would act on guns with or without Congress, floating executive orders ahead of a victims' meeting.

Pamela Geller's AFDI bought 228 NYC subway ad spaces for posters pairing the burning World Trade Center with a Quranic verse on terror.

An Atlanta postal supervisor, a coworker, and four accomplices pled guilty to stealing $3 million in U.S. Treasury checks from the mail.

After Sandy Hook, CNN's Piers Morgan called gun-rights advocate Larry Pratt 'unbelievably stupid' on air, igniting a debate on guns and journalism.

After the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre on December 14, 2012, an editorial: the gun lobby's arguments have run out, and the law must change.

On December 6, 2012, Washington's marijuana legalization took effect with a midnight celebration at the Space Needle and a wink from Seattle police.

George Zimmerman filed a defamation suit against NBC over its edited 911-call broadcast. A Florida judge dismissed the case before trial.

In late 2012, Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni and his wife Anupama were convicted in Oslo of gross maltreatment of their seven-year-old son and jailed.

Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist, died in an Irish hospital in October 2012 after being refused a termination during a miscarriage.

Tabloids periodically claimed Barack and Michelle Obama had secretly filed for divorce. No credible evidence ever emerged, and the marriage endured.

Romney spent two years hoping for a miracle. On election night 2012, even Fox News called Ohio for Obama, and the hope ran out.

On Election Day 2012, a judge ordered a giant Obama mural covered at a Philadelphia polling place. Workers covered it only partly, leaving it visible.