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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.