World

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

September 7, 2011 · 2 min read

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.

August 26, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

August 23, 2011 · 1 min read

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

July 25, 2011 · 2 min read

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

July 16, 2011 · 2 min read

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

June 1, 2011 · 1 min read

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

May 6, 2011 · 1 min read

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

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

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

May 2, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

February 23, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 27, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

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

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

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

November 29, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 23, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 22, 2010 · 1 min read

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.

November 19, 2010 · 1 min read

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

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read

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.

November 17, 2010 · 1 min read