Degrees Employers Hate and Love

Wondering which college degrees employers are looking for - and which don't stand out as much? Keep reading to learn more.

Are you considering returning to school and want to earn a degree that's attractive to future employers?
Now is a good time to be practical about what you study, says Susan Heathfield, About.com's Human Resources Guide.
"With the unemployment situation the way it is right now, I would be considering what degree to get more closely than any other time in history," says Heathfield. "If you want to be employable in this economy and the future, you have to have valuable skills."
With that in mind, we asked Heathfield what degrees employers might love - and which could make them frown.
We also consulted Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, and his department's 2012 study called "Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings." With the subheadline "Not All College Degrees Are Created Equal," this report studied the unemployment rates for recent (aged 22 to 26) and experienced (aged 30 to 54) college graduates in various majors.
Using the U.S. Department of Labor's most recent U.S. unemployment rate of 8.1 percent (April 2012), we considered unemployment rates above 8.1 percent as bad, and rates below 8.1 percent as good.
Keep that in mind as you learn more about college majors employers love and hate.

Loved Degree #1: Bachelor's in Health Care Administration

Do you have a passion for health care but want to pursue more of a leadership role? Consider earning a degree in health care administration.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2010-2020 projections, 28 percent of all new jobs in the U.S. economy will be in the health care and social assistance industry.
So it's no wonder that the "Hard Times" report found a 2.9 percent unemployment rate for experienced health and medical administrative services grads.
"The cost of health care is now 18 percent of GDP (gross domestic product), our total economic activity," says Carnevale. "It's the biggest industry we have." And because management of that industry is such a large part of it, this is an attractive degree to employers, according to Carnevale.
Health services administration programs could include courses from accounting and health care law to health care ethics and epidemiology, according to the College Board, an organization of colleges and universities that administers tests such as the SAT.

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Hated Degree #1: Bachelor's in Architecture

Okay, so architecture might not be such a hated degree; it's just that there aren't many employers around to love it, says Carnevale.
Basically, it's all tied to the capital markets and the implosion of the housing market over the past few years. According to Carnevale, when Wall Street went under so did construction - which is closely linked to architecture field.
Perhaps that's why recent architecture graduates had an unemployment rate of 13.9 percent - the worst unemployment rate of all the listed degrees in the "Hard Times" report.
But if your passion still has you signing up for this degree, here are a few examples of the courses that are generally offered in an architecture program, according to the College Board: architectural design, building methods and materials, architectural history, and structural design.

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Loved Degree #2: Bachelor's in Communications

If there's one thing we love to do in this age of the Internet, it's communicating. With everything from Twitter and Facebook to chat rooms and blogs blasting us every minute of every day, a degree in communications seems relevant.
The "Hard Times" report found a 7.4 percent unemployment rate among recent grads of communications. And the unemployment rate for experienced grads was even lower at 6.3 percent.
What's behind these strong numbers? Carnevale says communications is growing even though print journalism is not. He adds that "communications includes a lot of the Internet stuff and a lot of the institutional work."
Heathfield echoes this optimism, saying that a specialization in social media could help make you marketable now and well into the future. "But if you only do paper print advertising, you're a dinosaur," she warns.
Ready to learn more about social media and the communications field? The College Board says mass communications programs typically include courses in communication and mass media research, media law and ethics, mass media and society, or global perspectives in media.

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Hated Degree #2: Bachelor's in Fine Arts

We're not trying to stunt your growth as an artist here. But if you're planning to pursue a fine arts - or any arts - degree, Carnevale and his "Hard Times" report have some possibly uninspiring advice.
The report found that recent fine arts grads had a high unemployment rate of 12.6 percent. Experienced grads did fare a bit better, though, at 7.3 percent.
"There just isn't that much demand for the arts. We're taking the arts out of a lot of our schools," says Carnevale. "And at the same time a lot of people get degrees in the arts."
Carnevale advises considering a master's degree if you pursue the arts, which he says could open a lot of doors.
If you still want to study fine arts, your coursework depends on the area of art that you choose to study. For example, the U.S. Department of Labor notes that fine arts courses could include studio art, art history, and even core subjects like English and social science.

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Loved Degree #3: Bachelor's in Computer Science

Are you thinking about putting your love for computers to the test by earning a degree in computer science?
Employers like what you're thinking, at least according to Heathfield and the "Hard Times" report. The report found that recent computer science grads had a 7.8 percent unemployment rate, while experienced computer science grads had an even lower unemployment rate of 5.6 percent.
What are some factors that might contribute to these low unemployment figures? Consider this: "There's just a whole wide range of what this degree can prepare you to do," says Heathfield. "You can do development, technology support, IT systems; you could move into the cloud and mobile world, data and network security, and identity theft."
The College Board says that computer science programs could include courses in artificial intelligence, digital system design, software engineering, or computer system organization.

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Hated Degree #3: Bachelor's in Philosophy

Philosophy is a wonderful and fascinating field that delves into life's biggest questions: What is consciousness? Why should we be ethical? Why can't I find a job? Oh, sorry, that last one is not usually asked in school - but it may be asked when you graduate with a philosophy degree.
According to the "Hard Times" report, recent philosophy and religious studies grads had a high unemployment rate of 10.8 percent.
"Humanities degrees may make you a really well-rounded person, and I treasure my background in English, but they aren't giving you a skill that you can apply in the workplace unless you go on for advanced degrees," says Heathfield.
Carnevale agrees, adding that if students don't get a higher degree in philosophy, they often pursue a law degree or a teaching credential for more career prospects.
If you decide to stick with philosophy, the College Board lists some common courses such as epistemology, logic, ethics, and metaphysics. And to help put philosophy hopefuls at slight ease, the "Hard Times" report noted that experienced grads in this field had a more favorable unemployment rate of 6.8 percent.

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Loved Degree #4: Bachelor's in Nursing

Do you have a great bedside manner and a hankering to help those in need? Pursuing a nursing degree could be your calling. With an unemployment rate of 4 percent for recent grads and only 1.9 percent for experienced grads - according to the "Hard Times" report - it's probably safe to say that employers are quite fond of this degree.
Because nurses can't be outsourced, says Heathfield, and in the future world order, that's a big deal.
"Degrees that lead to careers that provide direct services to patients in health care will be in higher demand," she says. "Registered nurse is the prime example of this."


Source: http://education.yahoo.net/articles/loved_and_hated_degrees.htm?kid=1MN32

20 Best Tech Wins of 2012

2012: A Banner Year for Tech

The year is only a bit more than half over, but so far 2012 has been an exciting year in terms of cool technology.
We've seen the arrival of a new iPad, Microsoft's entry into the tablet arena, the unveiling of a dazzling Sony gaming handheld, and other debuts.
Here’s a roundup of some of the year’s best (so far) in cameras, smartphones, tablets, TVs, laptops, e-readers, and more. Let's start with what may be the best point-and-shoot camera ever. Enjoy!

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-RX100

Possibly "the best pocket camera of all time," the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 surpasses even the Canon PowerShot S100, which until now was the best point-and-shoot camera you could find. The RX100 is groundbreaking mainly because of its sensor, which is much larger than those in other cameras of its size.
The RX100 also has a very wide F1.8 aperture, which is optimal for capturing shots with a dramatically shallow depth of field, as well as for taking photos in low-light situations. The RX100 rocks in capturing video, too: It takes 1080p video at 60 frames per second, and provides manual shutter and aperture controls when recording.
Billed as "the professional's compact camera," the Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 isn't cheap; it's available in stores and online at the Sony Online Store for $650.

Samsung Galaxy S III

The Samsung Galaxy S III is one of the most hyped smartphones in recent memory. New features include tilt zooming (which is great for Web browsing), shake to update, and flip to mute (so you can easily ignore unwanted calls).
You can also take a screenshot by swiping from right to left with the side of your hand, and--just as the commercials brag about--you can send email and text messages while watching an HD video.
In her full review of this sleek and minimalistic phone, PCWorld Senior Editor Ginny Mies says it’s the next great Android phone in terms of design, display, and performance. All major carriers sell the S III.

Google+ Beefs Up Hangouts

Hangouts, which let you video-chat with up to nine other people, are arguably the feature that Google+ users like the most about the social network. In addition to getting a group of friends or business associates together on screen, you can join Hangouts with strangers who share your hobbies or interests.
And Hangouts got even better when Google+ revealed live Hangouts On Air in May. With this feature, you can broadcast the live Hangout video publicly from a Google+ stream or a YouTube channel, or embed it on a website.
During the automatically recorded session, you can see how many people are watching. When you end the Hangout, Google uploads the recorded video to your YouTube channel, as well as on Google+. It’s great for musicians, business professionals, or anyone else who wants to try to make a message go viral.
Additionally, the Google+ app for the iPad finally showed up in July, so the millions of people sporting Apple’s popular tablet can now get in on the Hangout action.

Apple iPad (Third Generation)

Although Apple’s third-generation tablet looks like the iPad 2 on the outside, once you start it up you immediately see that this iPad leaves its predecessors (and competitors) in the dust thanks to its 2048-by-1536-pixel, 9.7-inch Retina display, which sets the standard for what users should now expect of their tablets.
The latest iPad is the first tablet that we have tested to earn Superior marks in our subjective screen-quality evaluation. (Superior is our highest rating.) And the third-generation iPad's 4G connectivity option makes it a tremendous step up from previous iterations of Apple’s massively popular tablet.

Microsoft Surface for Windows Pro

Although the two tablets that Microsoft recently announced--the Surface RT and Surface Pro--are not yet on sale, there's no question that Microsoft's decision to build its own tablets changes the market considerably.
For one thing, why buy a classic laptop if you can purchase a tablet that quickly and elegantly becomes one when you need it to be, without sacrificing performance, interoperability, or functionality?
While it's unclear how much market share Surface tablets will take away from sales of Apple's iPad, the new Microsoft hardware certainly will make things tougher for tablets running Google's Android operating system, which have fared miserably compared with the iPad.
Additionally, Surface tablets will run the new Windows 8 touch-centric operating system and its acclaimed Metro interface, which is refreshingly different from what you can find on iOS or Android.
While the Surface RT model will compete with other tablets, the Surface for Windows Pro will challenge the current crop of laptops and Ultrabooks--and it may well win.

Samsung Galaxy Note

When Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note, some people thought it an ugly duckling for being too big a phone and too small a tablet. However, Samsung turned the oversize smartphone into a success with aggressive marketing, wide distribution, and good product design.
Offering a 5.3-inch Super AMOLED display with a 1280-by-800-pixel resolution, the Note can serve as a smartphone or as a "smart notepad" on which users can write using its digital S Pen.

Google Nexus 7

This highly anticipated 7-inch tablet is poised to compete against Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Made by Asus, Google's slate comes with a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, an HD display with 1280-by-800-pixel resolution at 216 pixels per inch, a 12-core CPU, and a 4325 mAh battery that Google says should give you 9 hours of HD video playback on one charge.
The tablet also sports near-field communication technology, as well as GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera.
The Nexus 7 is simply the best 7-inch tablet you can buy today.

Apple MacBook Pro With Retina Display

According to Macworld, Apple’s MacBook Pro with Retina Display is a "groundbreaking release." For starters, it's 25 percent thinner than its predecessor. Even more impressive, critics have been thrilled by the laptop’s breathtaking display with its 2880-by-1880-pixel resolution.
After you see this screen, others seem blurry in comparison; that's because the human eye can't discern the individual pixels, and you perceive no drop in contrast when you view the Retina display from different angles.
The only issue anyone but Apple has with this power-packed laptop is its price. The basic model, with a 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage, starts at $2199.

Vizio Enters the PC Market

Vizio, the flat-panel TV maker known for its sleek designs and low prices, announced in January that it would enter the PC business.
In June, Vizio made good on its promise and started taking orders for an Ultrabook, a laptop, and an all-in-one PC (shown here), each priced at $898. For more information, check out a roundup of all of the new Vizio products on our TechHive beta blog.
Considering what Vizio has done in the TV market, its presence in the PC arena is good news for consumers seeking affordable computers with powerful entertainment features.

HTC One S

The HTC One S is an ultrathin smartphone with an 8-megapixel camera that can capably fill in for a point-and-shoot camera. The handset also includes built-in Beats audio, so the handset is ideal for anyone who enjoys multimedia and games.
Arguably the best phone on T-Mobile and one of the top Android phones overall among the four big carriers, the HTC One S boasts a premium design, employing a classic aluminum unibody shape that incorporates contrasting slate and blue-gray panels.

Google's Self-Driving Car Licensed to Drive

In May, Google's self-driving car passed its driver's license test in Nevada, earning the first license of its kind in the United States. The self-driving car license clears the way for Google to test its technology on public roads in the state. Nevada says a number of other companies are looking to test self-driving cars on the state's public roads.
According to The Car Connection, you won’t be able to buy a fully autonomous car for at least a decade, but many self-driving elements--such as the parallel-parking-assist feature currently found on many luxury rides--will continue to be integrated into cars coming to market.
This photo shows Google's autonomous vehicle cruising in Nevada.
(Image: Courtesy of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles)

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS

Google’s new Jelly Bean operating system (Android 4.1) boasts improved performance, new notification features, better voice dictation and search, and an enhanced camera app.
When PCWorld pitted a Galaxy Nexus using Jelly Bean against an iPhone 4S in a voice-search face-off, Jelly Bean came out ahead of Siri on 8 of 17 questions and commands.
PCWorld's Armando Rodriguez reviewed Android 4.1, concluding that it's "fast, slick, and feels like what Ice Cream Sandwich should have been when it first launched six months ago."
The lucky users of the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus S, and the Motorola Xoom will get it in July, with the update already in process for all unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus phones. Be sure to read more about whether Jelly Bean will arrive on your phone.

Adobe Creative Suite 6

With Creative Suite 6--Adobe’s biggest revision in years--the company is bravely steering users away from its own Flash standard for Web multimedia.
"Creative Suite 6 is full of technological triumphs, from the use of GPU acceleration in Photoshop CS6 and Premiere Pro CS6 to the ability of Dreamweaver CS6 to output smartphone apps for almost any mobile operating system by transferring their production to the cloud," wrote PCWorld's Alan Stafford in praise of Adobe's Creative Suite 6.

Google Chrome Mobile Browser for iPhone and iPad

Since Google announced the mobile version of its Chrome browser for iOS in June, users generally have responded well. In June it was, for a time, the number one free app downloaded from iTunes.
Until iOS 6 arrives with its tab cloud syncing, Chrome is a great bet for iOS users to sync their tabs, bookmarks, history, settings, and passwords across their Apple computers, tablets, and phones.

Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight

Electronic-ink e-readers are great in that they're lightweight, they hold a charge for a seeming eternity, and they're easy to read even in sunlight. The only problem is, they need a light source when you want to use them in the dark.
The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight, however, includes a built-in light that doesn’t need any extra help, much to the delight of others around you, such as seatmates on a flight or bed partners who prefer darkness while they snooze.

Samsung ES8000 Series LCD HDTV

Samsung's top-of-the-line UNES8000 Smart LED TV includes a "Micro Dimming Ultimate" feature that brightens the picture and reduces the halo effect often seen on edge-lit LED sets.
The remote accepts voice and gesture controls, and the HDTV's superthin bezel makes the screen seem almost edgeless. Your entertainment center would kill to host this beauty.
Available at Amazon for $2498.

Sony PlayStation Vita

Sony's PlayStation Vita is an excellent handheld gaming machine that’s worth paying for if you demand more from your mobile gaming than smartphone or tablet games can provide.
The PlayStation Vita packs a quad-core PowerVR Series 5XT SGX543MP4+ GPU that’s similar (though superior) to the dual-core SGX543MP2 GPU inside the Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2. The GPU does a fantastic job of rendering movies and games without a hitch, and the Vita has respectable battery life.
You’ll have to make some sacrifices in order to play with this kind of power, but if you’re willing to accommodate the Vita’s size--and Sony’s draconian memory-card pricing scheme--you’ll be rewarded with one of the most powerful handheld gaming devices ever made.

Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus Banned in U.S.

The ongoing patent war between Apple and Samsung recently saw a federal judge banning the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the United States.
This decision wasn’t a win for consumers--and certainly not one for Samsung--but for Apple, it was huge. However, the injunction barring the sale of the handset was suspended in early July, and these days consumers are probably getting sick of Apple's patent litigation.

SOPA and PIPA Stopped

The federal bills known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) would have allowed rights holders to seek court orders requiring payment providers, advertisers, and search engines to stop doing business with websites that infringe upon copyrighted material, so that search links to such sites would be removed.
Neither piece of legislation did enough to protect against false accusations. They also would have given the U.S. government the power to censor the Web.
After a mass protest by Web companies and millions of users on January 18, Congress postponed further action on the bills indefinitely.

Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A Ultrabook

A full-HD display that uses IPS technology is the breakout feature of Asus’s new high-end Ultrabook. IPS produces a bright and clear image at all viewing angles, and offers terrific color.
Amazon currently sells this Ultrabook for $1080 with an Intel Core i5-3317U 1.7GHz processor, a 128GB solid-state drive, a backlit keyboard, and the Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit operating system.




By Christina DesMarais, PCWorld                   
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/259047/20_best_tech_wins_of_2012_so_far_.html

 

The most Important & Historical events in 2012

2012 is a year that started on a Sunday and is still the current day. There were many cultural ideas that have been disseminated through the Internet, books and television on 2012 being the Doomsday or the end of the world and suggest that disastrous events will happen in the year 2012.
Let’s see all that happened in the year 2012!

Jan 7th - Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11
Jan 13th - Cruise ship, Costa Concordia, runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths
Jan 14th - Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
Jan 14th - Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote
Jan 18th - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
Jan 19th - FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites
Jan 23rd - European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program
Jan 28th - Death toll from coordinated bombing attacks in Kano, Nigeria, reaches 185
Feb 1st - At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said
Feb 2nd - Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
Feb 2nd - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)
Feb 2nd - NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989
Feb 4th - Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland
Feb 5th - Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award after leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLVI
Feb 6th - 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths
Feb 6th - Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming Britain's Monarch becoming only the second to do so
Feb 11th - Israel Air Force conducts four air strikes in Gaza Strip
Feb 12th - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
Feb 12th - Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations


       Queen Elizabeth II

Feb 15th - United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
Feb 15th - Fire at Comayagua prison, Honduras, kills 358
Feb 17th - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
Feb 17th - Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
Feb 18th - Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the first native American saint
Feb 19th - 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
Feb 20th - Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
Feb 20th - South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders
Feb 21st - Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
Feb 22nd - Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
Feb 23rd - A series of bomb attacks across 12 Iraqi cities kills 60 and injures 200
Feb 25th - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
Feb 25th - Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen
Feb 25th - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
Feb 25th - Louisiana Red, American blues musician, dies from stroke at 79
Feb 26th - The film The Artist wins five Academy Awards and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927
Feb 26th - Bus plunges off a cliff in Shanxi, China causing 15 deaths
Feb 26th - Train derailment kills 3 and injures 45 in Burlington, Ontario
Feb 27th - Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor
Feb 28th - Occupy London protesters evicted from St Paul's Cathedral
Feb 28th - Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
Mar 1st - Euro zone unemployment reaches historical high of 10.7%
Mar 2nd - Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky
Mar 2nd - The Red Cross is denied access to provide relief to the Baba Amr district in Homs by the Syrian army
Mar 2nd - New fiscal compact to prevent excessive debt is signed by 25 out of 27 European Union members
Mar 3rd - Lorry crash in east Guinea kills 50 and injures 27
Mar 3rd - Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured
Mar 4th - Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo


Russian President Vladimir Putin

Mar 4th - Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
Mar 4th - Over 10,000 Peruvian illegal gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado
Mar 5th - 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha
Mar 5th - Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
Mar 6th - 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow
Mar 6th - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President, dies at 75
Mar 8th - Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
Mar 8th - Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns
Mar 9th - Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland
Mar 10th - At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
Mar 11th - US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
Mar 12th - 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
Mar 12th - 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
Mar 12th - China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
Mar 13th - 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
Mar 13th - Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer public printed versions of its encyclopedia
Mar 13th - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mar 13th - 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
Mar 16th - Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan
Mar 16th - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries
Mar 17th - Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
Mar 17th - Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nation's Championship
Mar 17th - John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal, dies from natural causes at 91
Mar 18th - Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium
Mar 18th - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly
Mar 19th - Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain
Mar 20th - 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq
Mar 20th - Disney movie John Carter records one of the largest losses in cinema history with a $200 million dollar write down
Mar 21st - Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
Mar 21st - Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982
Mar 22nd - Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education
Mar 22nd - Australia's most wanted man, Malcolm Naden, is captured after seven years on the run in Gloucester, New South Wales
Mar 22nd - Massive fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
Mar 23rd - African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup
Mar 24th - African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
Mar 25th - Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron
Mar 26th - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal


Writer/Director James Cameron

Mar 26th - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
Mar 30th - Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history
Mar 30th - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers
Mar 30th - American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
Mar 31st - Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
Apr 1st - Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people ( UTair Aviation ATR-72)
Apr 2nd - Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3
Apr 3rd - Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
Apr 3rd - Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
Apr 3rd - US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
Apr 4th - German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out Iran
Apr 4th - Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation
Apr 4th - Boris Todic, President of Serbia, resigns
Apr 5th - Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people
Apr 5th - 77 year old pensioner's suicide outside Greece's parliament prompts further protests in Athens

44th US President Barack Obama

Apr 5th - International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship
Apr 6th - US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities
Apr 7th - Joyce Banda becomes President of Malawi
Apr 7th - 130 Pakistani Army soldiers are buried in an avalanche near the Siachen Glacier
Apr 8th - Gunter Grass labelled persona non gratta by Israeli internal affairs minister Eli Yishai
Apr 8th - Pope Benedict XVI calls for an end to Syrian blood shed in papal Easter message
Apr 9th - The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
Apr 10th - United Nations deadline for Syrian troop withdrawal passes as violence continues
Apr 10th - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world
Apr 10th - Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite
Apr 10th - Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97
Apr 11th - 8.6 magnitude earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia
Apr 11th - 2011 London riot looter is jailed for 11 years after starting a fire at a furniture retailer
Apr 11th - South Korean legislative elections result in the governing Saenuri Party retaining governance
Apr 11th - Prime Minister of Greece, Lucas Papademos, resigns and calls an election for May 6

265th Pope Benedict XVI

Apr 12th - A ceasefire in the 2011-2012 Syrian uprising comes into effect
Apr 12th - Bodleian, Oxford University and Vatican libraries announce over 1.5 million pages of ancient texts will be made available across the internet
Apr 12th - Civilian rule in Mali is returned after Dioncounda Traore is sworn in as interim president
Apr 13th - North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch
Apr 15th - 400 Islamist Militants escape from a Pakistan prison after an insurgent attack
Apr 15th - China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar
Apr 15th - US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated
Apr 16th - At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
Apr 16th - For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction
Apr 17th - The St Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds
Apr 18th - The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
Apr 19th - Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer at 71
Apr 20th - Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
Apr 20th - 40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico
Apr 21st - Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
Apr 21st - Chicago White Sox pitcher, Philip Humber, pitches the 21st MLB perfect game against the Seattle Mariners
Apr 22nd - 30 year old women collapses and dies during London Marathon
Apr 23rd - Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
Apr 23rd - Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
Apr 23rd - 38,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach
Apr 25th - The United Kingdom dips back into recession after the economy shrunk 0.2% in the first quarter of 2012
Apr 26th - 70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama
Apr 26th - Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of mad cow disease in California
Apr 27th - Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people
Apr 28th - Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people
Apr 29th - International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect
Apr 30th - The unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become the tallest building in New York
Apr 30th - Spain's economy double dips after a 0.3% contraction and 25% unemployment rate
Apr 30th - Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River,India, killing 103 people
Apr 30th - Manchester City defeat Manchester United 1-0 in what is claimed to be the biggest match in the English Premier League's history
May 1st - China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
May 1st - Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion
May 2nd - Edvard Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sells at auction for $119,922,500
May 2nd - Barcelona football player Lionel Messi breaks the European goal-scoring record with 68 goals
May 4th - 14 decapitated bodies and 9 hung from a bridge are found in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
May 5th - 17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal
May 5th - Japan shuts down its nuclear reactors leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970
May 6th - Francois Hollande elected President of France
May 6th - Greece parliamentary election results in 60% support for parties opposed to austerity measures
May 7th - NATO air strike kills 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
May 7th - Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six year term as President of Russia
May 7th - Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
May 9th - Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" becomes the most expensive contemporary art piece to be sold at auction for $86.9 million dollars
May 9th - A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board
May 9th - United States President, Barack Obama, officially states his support for same sex marriage
May 10th - The Red Cross suspends all humanitarian work in Pakistan after a worker was kidnapped and killed
May 10th - Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370
May 11th - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
May 12th - The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
May 13th - 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war
May 13th - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
May 13th - Manchester City win the English Premier League for the first time
May 14th - 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
May 14th - Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
May 15th - Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
May 15th - Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled
May 19th - Chelsea defeat Bayern Munich in penalty shootout to win the UEFA Champion's League
May 20th - Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
May 20th - 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
May 21st - 120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen
May 21st - 13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania
May 22nd - 14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India
May 22nd - Philip Philips is crowned the eleventh American Idol
May 25th - Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province
May 25th - A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
May 26th - A gunman in the Finnish town of Hyvink
May 26th - Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents
May 27th - A NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
May 29th - Thousands march in protest in Johannesburg against Brett Murray's controversial painting The Spear
May 29th - Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
May 29th - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
May 29th - Indonesian police make the biggest drug bust in ten years after seizing over a million ecstasy pills valued at $45 million
May 30th - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
May 30th - Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship
May 31st - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
Jun 1st - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
Jun 3rd - Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria
Jun 3rd - Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground
Jun 3rd - Tiger Woods' 73rd PGA tour victory equals Jack Nicklaus's record
Jun 4th - US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
Jun 4th - Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
Jun 4th - Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
Jun 4th - Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
Jun 6th - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs
Jun 6th - The Solar Impulse completes the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the sun

Playwright William Shakespeare

Jun 7th - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London
Jun 7th - Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
Jun 7th - A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
Jun 8th - A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people
Jun 9th - It is announced that up to $125 million dollars in loans will be given to aid Spain's struggling banks
Jun 9th - Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses
Jun 10th - A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
Jun 11th - Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan
Jun 11th - 23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria
Jun 11th - The Nobel Prize is reduced by 20% to prevent any future undermining of capital
Jun 11th - Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people
Jun 11th - Los Angeles Kings defeat New Jersey Devils 6-1 in game 6 to win the NHL's Stanley Cup
Jun 12th - The chemical compound NOTT-202, which is capable of selectively absorbing carbon dioxide, is created
Jun 12th - An Australian coroner's report rules that a dingo was responsible for the death of a baby in 1980
Jun 12th - The World Health Organization concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer

Golfer Tiger Woods

Jun 13th - A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people
Jun 13th - San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
Jun 14th - An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16
Jun 14th - The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl
Jun 15th - Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
Jun 15th - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive one and two notch downgrades
Jun 16th - 32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad
Jun 16th - Coca-Cola begins business in Myanmar after 60 years
Jun 16th - A collapse of a stage at a Toronto Radiohead concert kills one person
Jun 16th - 30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India
Jun 17th - France's Socialist Party wins a majority in the legislative election
Jun 17th - Greek voters return to the polls after the failed May 6 election
Jun 17th - American golfer, Webb Simpson, wins the US Open
Jun 18th - 15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq
Jun 19th - A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
Jun 19th - Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
Jun 20th - Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
Jun 20th - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
Jun 21st - Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
Jun 21st - A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
Jun 21st - Miami Heat win the 2012 NBA finals after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 games to one
Jun 22nd - Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106
Jun 23rd - Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
Jun 23rd - A bus of Czech tourists crashes in Croatia killing 8 and injuring 44
Jun 23rd - 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
Jun 24th - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
Jun 24th - Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
Jun 25th - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
Jun 28th - A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people
Jun 29th - 16 Naxalite Maoist insurgents in India are killed by police
Jun 29th - Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45
Jun 29th - 15,000 Japanese anti-nuclear protesters blockade the Japanese Prime Minister's office in Tokyo
Jun 30th - 30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths
Jun 30th - Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Jun 30th - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
Jul 1st - 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya
Jul 1st - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win UEFA Euro 2012
Jul 2nd - GlaxoSmithKline settle the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion
Jul 2nd - Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless
Jul 3rd - Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq
Jul 3rd - Antonio Esfandiari wins a record $18.3 million in poker after winning the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In
Jul 5th - The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened and stands at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
Jul 5th - South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
Jul 5th - Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is elected President of Mexico after a recount following irregularities
Jul 6th - Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan
Jul 7th - Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people
Jul 8th - Roadside car bomb kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province
Jul 8th - Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Pe
Jul 10th - The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Jul 11th - POliciy academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
Jul 11th - S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
Jul 12th - 200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh
Jul 12th - 90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria
Jul 13th - China's economic growth drops to 7.6%, its lowest level for three years
Jul 13th - 19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa
Jul 13th - Financially troubled Scottish football club, Rangers, is voted into the third division
Jul 14th - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan
Jul 14th - Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000
Jul 15th - 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
Jul 15th - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International Space Station
Jul 17th - 17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Jasper, Alabama
Jul 18th - 6 Israeli tourists are killed and 30 injured after a bomb explodes on a tourist bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria
Jul 18th - 14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency
Jul 18th - Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths
Jul 18th - Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defence
Jul 18th - 24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar
Jul 18th - Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
Jul 20th - 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,
Jul 20th - 21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico
Jul 22nd - Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq
Jul 22nd - Pranab Mukherjee is elected President of India
Jul 22nd - At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China
Jul 23rd - A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people
Jul 24th - John Dramani becomes President of Ghana after the death of President John Atta Mills
Jul 24th - Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in Sverdlovsk, Russia
Jul 25th - The 2012 Summer Olympics begin
Jul 25th - Ivica Dačić is sworn in as Prime Minister of Serbia
Jul 25th - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
Jul 26th - At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
Jul 26th - Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
Jul 26th - North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
Jul 27th - Queen Elizabeth II announces the opening of the London 2012 Olympics at the opening ceremony
Jul 28th - Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43
Jul 28th - 18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia
Jul 29th - Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea
Jul 30th - Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India
Jul 30th - Indian power grid failure leaves over 300 million without power
Jul 31st - Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq
Jul 31st - A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power
Aug 1st - Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines
Aug 1st - 8 Women's badminton doubles players are disqualified from the 21012 summer Olympics for "not using one's best efforts to win a match"
Aug 2nd - 23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan
Aug 3rd - United Nations General Assembly c reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria
Aug 4th - 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
Aug 4th - South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics
Aug 5th - Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide
Aug 5th - 19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk
Aug 5th - General Motors signs a record breaking $559 million marketing deal with Manchester United
Aug 6th - Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
Aug 7th - 21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria
Aug 7th - Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines
Aug 7th - 200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui
Aug 8th - China announces that it plans to close 23 rare earth mines and up to 50 smelting companies
Aug 8th - 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
Aug 9th - The death toll from the Philippines' floods rise to 70

Sprinter Usain Bolt

Aug 9th - Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
Aug 11th - 153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude
Aug 11th - 13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh
Aug 12th - The 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony completes the games
Aug 13th - Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus is stripped of her shot-put gold medal after failing a doping test
Aug 14th - 46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan
Aug 16th - Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador
Aug 16th - 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
Aug 16th - South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
Aug 17th - Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years
Aug 17th - Gay pride events are banned for a century in Moscow
Aug 18th - Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen
Aug 18th - NATO air strikes kill at least 13 militants in Afghanistan
Aug 19th - 32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan
Aug 20th - 20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

Aug 20th - South Africa become the top-ranked test cricket nation after defeating England
Aug 21st - 20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus
Aug 22nd - 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
Aug 22nd - 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
Aug 22nd - Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization
Aug 23rd - Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia
Aug 23rd - At least 30 are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
Aug 24th - Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
Aug 24th - Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people
Aug 24th - Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
Aug 24th - A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple
Aug 25th - 330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war
Aug 25th - 39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery
Aug 25th - 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar
Aug 26th - 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969
Aug 26th - 36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an,China
Aug 26th - 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
Aug 26th - A Legionellosis outbreak in Quebec City, Canada, kills 8 and infects 104
Aug 27th - First interplanetary human voice recording is broadcast from the Mars Rover Curiosity
Aug 28th - Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate
Aug 29th - Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
Aug 29th - Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23
Aug 29th - Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction

Professional Road Cyclist and Testicular Cancer Survivor Lance Armstrong

Aug 29th - The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles
Aug 30th - Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone
Aug 30th - A blast in the in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, China, kills 26 miners with 21 missing
Aug 31st - Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan
Sep 1st - Islamist rebels seize Douentza, Mali
Sep 1st - Grenade injures 41 festival celebrants in Paquibato, Philippines
Sep 1st - Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATo base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district
Sep 1st - US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan
Sep 2nd - A decades-long ban on veiled female news presenters is lifted from State television in Egypt
Sep 2nd - 15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine
Sep 3rd - 3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
Sep 3rd - Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea
Sep 3rd - New Zealand announces its withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan
Sep 4th - 42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco
Sep 4th - 25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan
Sep 4th - Pauline Marois becomes the first female premier of Quebec
Sep 4th - Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed
Sep 5th - 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
Sep 5th - Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week
Sep 5th - 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey
Sep 6th - 61 illegal immigrants die after a fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Turkey
Sep 6th - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President
Sep 7th - US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
Sep 7th - 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China
Sep 7th - Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada
Sep 8th - 6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan
Sep 8th - 8 people are killed after a tractor is hut by a train in Romania
Sep 9th - 17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria
Sep 9th - 100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq
Sep 9th - Armenia win the 40th FIDE Chess Olympiad
Sep 9th - Serena Williams wins her fourth women's tennis singles at the US Open
Sep 10th - 16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan
Sep 10th - Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students
Sep 10th - 10,000 miners demonstrate at Lonmin mines in Marikana, South Africa
Sep 10th - 29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam
Sep 10th - A left over bazooka grenade in Cambodia explodes and kills three children

Tennis Champion Serena Williams

Sep 11th - 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
Sep 11th - The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador
Sep 11th - The US is warned by Moody's that it's AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan
Sep 11th - 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
Sep 11th - Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
Sep 12th - 18 soldiers are killed by a rebel car bomb in Syria
Sep 12th - 314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan
Sep 12th - Apple unveils its iPhone 5 and iOS 6
Sep 13th - 19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China
Sep 13th - 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts
Sep 13th - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
Sep 13th - Dr Mustafa Abushagur is elected as Prime Minister of Libya
Sep 14th - 21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia
Sep 15th - Japan announces that it will phase out nuclear energy by the 2030s
Sep 16th - 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
Sep 16th - 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey
Sep 16th - 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
Sep 16th - Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
Sep 16th - Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
Sep 16th - NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
Sep 17th - Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China
Sep 17th - China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
Sep 17th - 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Sep 17th - Swedish forensic scientists find no conclusive evidence of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's DNA in a torn condom
Sep 17th - United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defence system in Japan
Sep 18th - 10 soliders are killed and 70 injured by a missile attack by Kurdish militants in Bingol, Turkey
Sep 18th - 26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico
Sep 18th - The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.
Sep 18th - World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
Sep 19th - 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
Sep 20th - 50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa
Sep 20th - 14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia
Sep 20th - AU Optronics fined $500 million for a LCD screen price-fixing
Sep 21st - Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda, wins a leadership ballot
Sep 22nd - 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow
Sep 23rd - Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine
Sep 23rd - 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York
Sep 23rd - Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
Sep 24th - Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
Sep 25th - 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
Sep 25th - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the Netherlands
Sep 26th - Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus
Sep 26th - Greek trade unions call a general strike to protest austerity measures
Sep 26th - Japanese automakers suspend operations in China
Sep 27th - UN publicly releases documents from China and Japan detailing their contesting claims for the Senkoku Islands
Sep 27th - The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars
Sep 27th - The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
Sep 28th - Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
Sep 28th - Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
Sep 30th - Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
Sep 30th - Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq
Sep 30th - Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2012 NRL Grand Final
Sep 30th - Europe defeat the US 14.5-13.5 in the 39th Ryder Cup
Oct 1st - California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
Oct 1st - 36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong
Oct 1st - 3 Nato soldiers and 16 Afghan police are killed by a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan
Oct 2nd - 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria
Oct 2nd - 10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Oct 3rd - 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria
Oct 4th - Turkey’s parliament approves cross-border military operations in Syria
Oct 4th - 19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China
Oct 4th - Jordan’s King Abdullah dissolves parliament in preparation for new elections
Oct 4th - Formula One legend, Michael Schumacher, retires
Oct 5th - Anglo Platinum Limited fires 12,000 striking workers in South Africa
Oct 6th - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Oct 6th - The Leeds Rhinos defeat the Warrington Wolves 26-18 to win the 2012 Super League grand final
Oct 7th - 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
Oct 7th - Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
Oct 8th - 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Oct 8th - Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
Oct 8th - Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament
Oct 8th - Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament
Oct 8th - John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
Oct 9th - 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Oct 9th - Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum optics
Oct 10th - Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors
Oct 11th - A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army
Oct 11th - A US appeal court overturns a district court ruling banning the sale of Samsung
Oct 11th - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
Oct 12th - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves of an African-led force to oust Islamist militants in northern Mali
Oct 12th - The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, sparking a series of critical commentary
Oct 13th - 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
Oct 13th - Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist
Oct 14th - 20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria
Oct 15th - Hilary Mantel wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up the Bodies
Oct 16th - Conflict in Maiduguri, Nigeria, leads to 24 militant deaths and several structures set ablaze
Oct 17th - The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri
Oct 17th - Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
Oct 17th - Tens of thousands protest austerity measures in Greece
Oct 18th - Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan
Oct 18th - Google stock trading is suspended after a premature release of a quarterly report indicating a 20% drop in profits and a 9% fall in share price
Oct 19th - 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon
Oct 22nd - 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake
Oct 22nd - Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
Oct 23rd - 12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan
Oct 24th - Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths
Oct 24th - 3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California
Oct 24th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage
Oct 25th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage
Oct 26th - 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
Oct 26th - 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan
Oct 26th - China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao
Oct 26th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage
Oct 27th - 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs
Oct 27th - Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts
Oct 28th - Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
Oct 28th - 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
Oct 28th - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One Indian Grand Prix
Oct 28th - San Francisco Giants defeat the Detroit Tigers in game four to take the 2012 MLB World Series
Oct 28th - Pablo Sandoval is named MLB 2012 World Series MVP.
Oct 29th - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
Oct 29th - Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher
Oct 30th - Walt Disney purchases Lucasfilm Ltd and its rights for Star Wars and Indiana Jones for $4.05 billion
Oct 31st - The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy
Nov 1st - Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service
Nov 1st - 22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nov 1st - Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan
Nov 1st - Acid is poured over a 15 year old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an honour killing in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Nov 1st - Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang
Nov 3rd - Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
Nov 4th - Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
Nov 4th - Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012
Nov 4th - Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
Nov 5th - 50 Syrian military personnel are killed by a suicide car bomb in Hama
Nov 5th - Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
Nov 6th - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
Nov 6th - Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim an Electoral College victory
Nov 6th - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
Nov 6th - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
Nov 7th - 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
Nov 7th - Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
Nov 9th - 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
Nov 9th - 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
Nov 9th - An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
Nov 10th - 20 Syrian troops are killed by suicide bombings in Daara
Nov 10th - 27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nov 10th - Israeli counter strike on Palestinian militants in Gaza kills 5 and injure 30
Nov 10th - 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
Nov 10th - The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeate Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
Nov 11th - 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
Nov 12th - Into the Silence by Wade Davis wins the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize
Nov 13th - 3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights
Nov 14th - A series of protests against austerity measures occur across Europe including Spain, Portugal, and Greece
Nov 14th - CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is discovered, the closest rogue planet to earth (100 light-years away)
Nov 15th - At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts
Nov 15th - Deep Horizon Oil Spill: BP settles for 4.5 Billion
Nov 16th - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time
Nov 17th - 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut, Egypt
Nov 18th - Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 US Formula One Grand Prix
Nov 18th - Israeli Gaza rocket strikes kill 80 alleged terrorist targets
Nov 18th - Brad Keselowski wins the 2012 Nascar Sprint Cup
Nov 20th - Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
Nov 21st - An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
Nov 21st - Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben
Nov 22nd - 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
Nov 22nd - 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92
Nov 23rd - JR Tokai unveil a maglev LO train prototype capable of travelling up to 500km per hour
Nov 24th - Gangnam Style becomes the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views
Nov 24th - Ernest Bai Koroma is re-elected President of Sierra Leone
Nov 24th - The continued NHL lockout results in all games to December 14 being cancelled
Nov 25th - 11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria
Nov 25th - 16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India
Nov 25th - Sebastian Vettel wins the 2012 Formula One championship for the third consecutive year
Nov 26th - 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
Nov 26th - The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion
Nov 27th - 29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq
Nov 27th - The eurozone announces that it will pay out 43.7 billion euros in Loans to Greece
Nov 28th - 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria
Nov 29th - 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq
Nov 29th - The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state
Nov 29th - Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach
Nov 30th - At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo
Dec 1st - 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
Dec 1st - Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
Dec 1st - Ukranian Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012
Dec 2nd - 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
Dec 2nd - Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia
Dec 2nd - Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
Dec 3rd - Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reaches the end of our solar system and enters interstellar space
Dec 4th - 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
Dec 4th - Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people
Dec 5th - 8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea
Dec 6th - 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests
Dec 6th - Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced
Dec 6th - A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
Dec 8th - UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
Dec 9th - 13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan
Dec 9th - 6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala
Dec 9th - Incumbent Ghanaian president John Mahama wins the general election amidst allegations of fraud
Dec 9th - The Social Liberal Union Party and Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta win by a landslide in the parliamentary elections
Dec 9th - Juan Manuel Márquez knocks out Manny Pacquiao in round six for the WBO light welterweight title
Dec 10th - Google begins selling US$99 laptops
Dec 10th - 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China
Dec 10th - 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
Dec 10th - Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record
Dec 11th - 125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria
Dec 11th - HSBC bank settles with US authorities to pay $1.9 billion for drug cartel money laundering
Dec 11th - British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world
Dec 13th - A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12
Dec 13th - Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane in the Senkaku Islands dispute
Dec 14th - 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
Dec 14th - Australian Joel Parkinson wins the 2012 ASP World Tour
Dec 14th - Gene Wolfe wins the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Dec 15th - 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey
Dec 16th - 4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji
Dec 16th - Corinthians defeat Chelsea 1-0 to win the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup
Dec 17th - 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
Dec 17th - 10 girls collecting firewood are killed by a mine blast in east Afghanistan
Dec 17th - 18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin
Dec 17th - NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
Dec 18th - 4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy
Dec 18th - 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan
Dec 18th - The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic
Dec 19th - UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
Dec 19th - A gang rape of a woman on a bus in India that resulted in her death leads to national and international outrage
Dec 19th - Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation’s first female president
Dec 20th - Apple is denied a patent for mobile pinch-to-zoom gestures by the US patent authorities
Dec 20th - Intercontinental Exchange purchases the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion
Dec 21st - 39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya
Dec 21st - The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar reaches the date 13.0.0.0.0
Dec 21st - "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
Dec 21st - The NHL announces a further cancellation of games until January 14 brining the total number of cancelled games to 625
Dec 22nd - 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus
Dec 22nd - 8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan
Dec 22nd - Tomasz Adamek outpoints Steve Cunningham in a split decision in the IBF heavyweight title eliminator at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Dec 23rd - 200 civilians are killed by the Syrian government’s warplanes in Helfaya, Syria
Dec 23rd - The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic
Dec 24th - 11 kindergarten children are killed after a minivan plunges into a roadside pond
Dec 25th - 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Dec 25th - 8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines
Dec 26th - China opens the world’s longest high speed rail route from Beijing to Guangzhou
Dec 27th - NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025
Dec 28th - Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world's oldest verified man
Dec 28th - 13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal
Dec 28th - Vladimir Putin signs into law a ban on US adoption of Russian children