World

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.