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From ~1,400 tigers in 2006 to ~3,600 by 2022 — India now hosts 70% of the world's wild tigers. How Project Tiger reversed extinction, and why the success is

500 GW of renewables by 2030: the math says ~50 GW a year — double the current pace. Grid integration, Chinese supply chains, and battery storage are the

Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy — four million Indian Americans punch far above their numbers in US politics, holding structural power nationally.

Trump 2.0 means tariffs, visa risk, and transactional diplomacy for India. The opportunity: China+1 supply chains. The risk: IT services and H-1B access

India-Pakistan is the world's most politically charged sporting rivalry — hundreds of millions watch, and the match has become a proxy for a conflict

From Non-Aligned solidarity with Palestine to joint military exercises with Israel: how India recalibrated its foreign policy — and domestic and moral costs.

The 7% per-country cap gives India ~10,000 green cards yearly. Over a million Indians wait in decades-long limbo — and America is losing them.

Indians get ~70% of H-1B visas while the green-card backlog stretches decades. As US restrictions tighten, the IT model built on visa arbitrage is ending.

Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.

In May 2015 the world was told a Nigerian restaurant served human flesh. Days later the Anambra police debunked it and the BBC retracted the story.

Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.

In February 2015, Israeli journalist Zvika Klein walked Paris for ten hours wearing a kippah, filming the reactions — weeks after the Hypercacher attack.

In August 2013, the NSA admitted analysts had spied on their own love interests using agency tools — the internal nickname was LOVEINT.

Two New York wine collectors sued Chicago chef Charlie Trotter in 2013, claiming $46,000 bottles of 1945 Burgundy were counterfeit.

Gloria C. MacKenzie, 84, of Zephyrhills, claimed the $590 million Powerball jackpot — the largest undivided lottery prize in US history at the time.

A first-person account from Istanbul of the 2013 Gezi Park protests — written by Turkish blogger Defne Suman as police cleared Taksim Square.

Tyler Deutsch of Washington put his 6-week-old daughter in a 10-degree freezer for an hour; bail was set at $1 million. She survived.

The body of missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi was found in Providence waters and identified on April 25, 2013, through dental records.

Brown student Sunil Tripathi was wrongly named online as a Boston bombing suspect in April 2013. He was never a suspect in the attack.

Saurabh Agarwal of Sterling, Virginia, was arrested by the FBI for allegedly molesting a sleeping woman on American Airlines Flight 1142.

In 2013, Angelina Jolie funded a girls-only primary school outside Kabul for 200–300 students — with profits from her jewelry line, she told E! News.

Before he was Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio was a 12-year-old with a crush — and, his childhood neighbor says, a letter promising marriage or the priesthood.

In March 2013, Ashley Judd was reportedly weighing a Senate run against Mitch McConnell. She ultimately decided not to run — here's how the speculation

Navy veteran Norman Breidenbaugh, 81, wired $400,000 to Jamaica over six years chasing a lottery prize that didn't exist.

In 2013, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle was the long-shot 'Asian pope' candidate. Here's what fueled the buzz — and what actually happened at the

Couples are wedding across continents over video chat. A 2013 NYT report traced the rise of proxy marriages — and the fraud and trafficking concerns.

In March 2013 The Sun claimed Kate Middleton had 'slipped' she was having a girl. Four months later, she gave birth to a boy: Prince George.

Fred Butler left school after eighth grade to support his family. At 106, Beverly, Massachusetts gave him his honorary high school diploma.

Engineer Shane Todd's 2012 death in Singapore sparked murder claims tied to a proposed IME–Huawei project; a 2013 inquest later ruled it a suicide.

94-year-old Norman Hendrickson died steps from his wife Gwen's funeral — and his daughters decided the couple who never parted would be mourned together.

Titan CEO Maurice Taylor fired off a second blistering letter to France's industry minister, praising its women and wine while savaging its work ethic.

A 48-year-old Granbury, Texas woman called 911 to order cigarette delivery — and got two deputies and a misdemeanor charge instead.

By 2013, China's leaders faced a shrinking workforce, 360 million elderly by 2030, and a 118-to-100 gender skew — and reformers said the one-child policy's

In February 2013, horsemeat labeled as beef turned up in burgers, lasagne, and spaghetti across Europe — exposing a food chain so tangled nobody could say

On February 15, 2013, a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, shattering windows across the city and injuring over a thousand people — mostly from

Archaeologists led by Georgia State's Christopher Morehart found 150+ skulls at Lake Xaltocan, Mexico — possibly the largest mass human sacrifice in ancient

A rare and candid account emerged from a scientist who had voluntarily worked in the sex industry during her graduate studies — not out of desperation but as a…

In late January 2013, Western newspapers carried horrifying reports from North Korea: a hidden famine in the country's breadbasket provinces, and allegations…

Cuba acknowledged 51 new cholera cases in Havana in January 2013, amid accusations that the government was hiding the outbreak's true scale.

Thieves dug up dozens of graves at Paris's Pantin cemetery for gold teeth, and gravediggers were among those arrested in the 2012 crime wave.

In December 2012, Nelson Mandela was flown to a Pretoria hospital for tests, prompting a fresh wave of global anxiety about the 94-year-old icon's health.

Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse duped by a prank call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge, was found dead in December 2012.

With days to go before December 21, 2012, panic buying hit China and Russia, shelter sales boomed in America, and believers converged on a French mountain.

In January 2012, Oxford astrophysicist Steven Rawlings died after his friend Dr Devinderjit Sivia restrained him during a mental health crisis.

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.

On October 14, 2012, Felix Baumgartner fell 24 miles from the edge of space at Mach 1.25 — the first human to break the sound barrier in freefall.

Biden vs. Ryan in the October 11, 2012 vice-presidential debate: Democrats saw a fighting comeback after Denver, Republicans saw a smirking interrupter.

After the first 2012 presidential debate in Denver, even CNN's Van Jones conceded: 'Romney was able to out-Obama Obama' — the night Mitt Romney won.

A Tunisian woman said police officers raped her — and when she complained, she was charged with indecency. Hundreds protested outside the Tunis courthouse.

Amid the 2012 unrest over an anti-Islam film, the deeper question: is Islam systematically misunderstood — by Western audiences and by some Muslims themselves?

An Aurora shooting survivor publicly asked Obama and Romney to debate gun control in the 2012 campaign. The candidates grieved; neither answered.

In September 2012 a tabloid rumor linked Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar to Bilawal Bhutto. Both denied it flatly. This is what actually happened.

The man behind the 2012 anti-Islam film 'Innocence of Muslims' was jailed over probation violations — the strange, deceptive story of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula.

When the 2012 school-lunch rules capped calories and mandated fruits and vegetables, hungry high schoolers pushed back — with boycotts and a viral parody video.

On CBS This Morning in September 2012, Bill Clinton told Muslims angered by the anti-Islam film: the insult is real, but 'you can't react every time you're

In September 2012, Pakistani minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour announced a $100,000 bounty from his own pocket for killing the maker of Innocence of Muslims.

France closed 20 embassies across the Muslim world in September 2012 after Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — a landmark free-speech clash.

Seventeen civilians, including two women, were beheaded in Helmand after a late-night music and dance party — in a Taliban-controlled district.

During the August 2012 panic exodus, India blocked 250+ web pages accused of spreading morphed images — and pointed a finger at Pakistan.

For the first time in 2012, Mitt Romney crossed 40% with 18–29-year-olds in a JZ Analytics poll — a warning sign for Obama’s youth-vote machine.

In a 2010 interview with a white-supremacist website, Oak Creek shooter Wade Michael Page described his white-power band End Apathy and his life in the hate

A Hindu boy named Sunil converted to Islam live on Pakistani TV during Ramazan 2012, sparking outrage and a threatened lawsuit from his employer Ansar Burney.

Charantoor Kultar Singh, a 22-year-old Liverpool John Moores student, pleaded guilty in 2012 to unauthorized computer access after a Police e-Crime Unit arrest.

The manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta ended June 4, 2012, in a Berlin internet cafe, where the accused killer was arrested while reading news about himself.

In May 2012, nine men were jailed for a child sexual exploitation ring in Rochdale — sentences of 4 to 19 years in a case that forced Britain to confront

In 2012 Kabul, Shakila Naderi ran a driving school for women — a small, pointed act of normalization in a city where public space was still deeply gendered.

A 2012 tell-all claimed Michelle Obama froze out Oprah Winfrey over her weight. Who made the claim, how it was sourced, and what the record shows.

The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us

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.

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.

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.

March 2012: an anonymous witness said he saw Trayvon Martin on top of George Zimmerman before the fatal shot — one disputed account in a national flashpoint

Photos of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump posing with slain wildlife from a Zimbabwe hunt ignited a 2012 backlash — and a trophy-hunting debate that

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.

In March 2012, a child s severed fingers were found in a trash can at Honolulu s Kukui Gardens. The disturbing discovery — and the search for answers.

Pune teacher Vandana Suryawanshi became the first foreign teacher — and the only Indian — selected for the US Space Foundation's teacher liaison programme.

In April 2011, John Halford vanished from a cruise ship off Egypt. His case was one of 165 disappearances at sea since 1995 — a mystery the industry avoids.

Shawn Sullivan, wanted in the US since 1994, was arrested in London in 2010 and faced extradition — until a 2012 High Court ruling blocked his removal.

In the World Economic Forum's 2011-2012 competitiveness ranking, the U.S. slipped to 5th place behind Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, and Finland.

Colorado, Virginia, California: three US earthquakes in three days in August 2011. Seismologists had a clear answer — and it wasn't what the anxious expected.

As rebels stormed his Tripoli compound in August 2011, Gaddafi told the world chess chief by phone he would never leave Libya. Two months later he was dead.

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

In May 2011 a killer E. coli strain swept northern Germany. Cucumbers took the blame — but the real culprit was fenugreek sprouts.

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

After the Abbottabad raid, Pakistan faced pointed questions from Washington and humiliation at home — the competence-or-complicity trap the ISI couldn't escape.

Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout sat about a mile from Pakistan's elite military academy — a custom-built compound with 14-foot walls and no phone or internet.

Why was bin Laden called 'Geronimo'? The raid code word, what it actually meant, and the backlash from Native Americans who found it offensive.

Benghazi's fall to Libyan rebels in February 2011 created the Arab Spring's first liberated city -- and the platform from which Gaddafi's regime would end.

On Jan 27, 2011, the government told the Supreme Court the palmolein chargesheet against CVC P.J. Thomas never reached his selectors. Sushma Swaraj disagreed.

On January 25, 2011, the Day of Rage brought tens of thousands of Egyptians into the streets. How Tunisia lit the fuse under Mubarak's 30-year rule.

How Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2010 sparked the Tunisian revolution -- and the Arab Spring.

How did a 22-year-old analyst exfiltrate hundreds of thousands of classified files? On the institutional failures — physical, procedural, human — behind the

In November 2010 Iran's parliament revealed it had planned to impeach President Ahmadinejad — and was stopped only by the Supreme Leader.

Japan's justice minister Minoru Yanagida resigned in November 2010 after joking that his job required remembering only two phrases.

Asia Bibi, a Christian farmworker, was sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy law in November 2010 — the case that put the law itself on trial.

In 2010, a New Jersey pastor ordered married church officials off Facebook, calling it a 'portal to infidelity' — then his own past surfaced.

For young Muslim women in the West, choosing the hijab is often an assertion of agency and ambition — not the retreat from modernity the debate assumes.

Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.

In India for Bigg Boss 4, Pamela Anderson wrote to PM Manmohan Singh calling on Indians to reject all leather products and end animal suffering.

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

On 11/11 — four singles — China celebrates singlehood with self-gifting. How Alibaba turned a joke holiday into a retail juggernaut.

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.

While Obama toured Asia, David Cameron raced to China with Britain's largest-ever business delegation. The great powers were all courting the same customer.

Fresh off his midterm 'shellacking,' Obama landed in Mumbai in November 2010 — selling India to American business, and American business to himself.

On November 2, 2010, Nikki Haley became the first Indian American governor in US history. What her South Carolina win meant — and didn't.

In 2010 two driverless vans drove 13,000 km from Italy to China. Nobody paid much attention then. The future of the automobile was already on the road.

When India's tennis star married Pakistan's cricket star Shoaib Malik in April 2010, nationalists on both sides fumed — but the real story was simpler and

Does Barack Obama feel the economic pain of ordinary Americans? An editorial look at the empathy gap between his rhetoric and lived reality in 2010.