World Politics

Mitt Romney struggled to connect with voters. His wife Ann — warm, candid about MS and cancer — was the asset the Obama campaign couldn't coach against.

Summer 1989: an all-day date from the Art Institute to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to a Baskin-Robbins curb — and a chocolate first kiss.

Fidel Merlos-Lopez was refused at the border on his way to bury his 10-year-old son, a U.S. citizen killed in a Pennsylvania house fire.

Bin Laden's youngest wife told Pakistani investigators about nine years on the run: at least five safe houses, four children born in Haripur and Abbottabad.

The former IMF chief was charged with aggravated pimping in the Carlton Affair probe. Three years later, a French court acquitted him of the charges.

In March 2012, leaked emails showed Bashar al-Assad and Asma al-Assad shopping for luxury goods as the crackdown killed thousands. Inside the leak.

As Leon Panetta's plane landed at Camp Bastion on March 14, 2012, an Afghan contractor drove a stolen truck onto the runway in a suicide-bomb attempt.

After Super Tuesday 2012, Mitt Romney was the GOP frontrunner. What his managerial, crisis-room style said about the candidate — and the country choosing him.

Putin's tears in Manezhnaya Square after winning Russia's 2012 election — genuine emotion, staged vulnerability, or something else? What that night meant.

In January 2012, two British tourists were detained at LAX and deported after tweets about destroying America — slang Homeland Security didn't find funny.

Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their two children to Norwegian social workers in May 2011, igniting a clash of two countries' parenting norms.

Stephen Colbert's 2012 South Carolina presidential exploration was part joke, part media event, part real Super PAC exposing campaign-finance loopholes.

On December 10, 2011, tens of thousands of Russians filled Bolotnaya Square in Moscow to protest rigged parliamentary elections — the largest

In late 2011, the smart money said Barack Obama could not be re-elected with unemployment near 8 percent. Revisiting the case against him — and why it failed.

Dubai's strict laws have landed Western tourists in jail for behavior that's harmless at home. Australia's DFAT published this survival guide for visitors

A provocative headline captures a cynical Pakistani attitude: the civil service as a route to personal wealth. The documented corruption numbers explain the

Many cities fine homeowners for grass over 10 inches. In 2011, one Michigan woman faced 93 days in jail over a vegetable garden — then the charges were dropped.

October 20, 2011: Muammar Gaddafi is captured and killed near Sirte as Libya's eight-month uprising claims his hometown.

They had no demands, they were all unemployed dropouts — the Occupy Wall Street myths, and what the movement actually changed.

October 2011: Israel publishes the first list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in exchange for captive soldier Gilad Shalit.