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Mohamed Morsi issues a declaration giving himself virtually unlimited powers, leading to violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square
Enrique Peña Nieto succeeds Felipe Calderón as president of Mexico
North Korea successfully launches a powerful rocket, alarming the world with a new sign of military potential
An excerpt of an anti-Islamic film made in the USA, Innocence of Muslims, is broadcast in Egypt on a Muslim TV channel
Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries
The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, is killed in a terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi
US embassies in Yemen and Egypt are attacked, as the protests against Innocence of Muslims spread
Burma's president Thein Sein says that he would accept Aung San Suu Kyi as his successor
A gunman severely wounds a 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, because of her protests against the Taliban suppression of girls' schools
The Nobel Peace Prize, set up by the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, is awarded in a controversial decision tto the European Union
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, jumping from a balloon 24 miles up, becomes the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall
Experts who gave tragically wrong earthquake advice at L'Aquila in 2009 are given six-year sentences for manslaughter
Superstorm Sandy, after devastating much of the Caribbean, reaches the east coast of the USA, killing more than 100 people
Barack Obama wins a second term, defeating Republican Mitt Romney in the US presidential election
The UN General Assembly, defying Israel, grants Palestine the status of a non-member observer state
At a UN Climate Change conference in Qatar there is agreement to extend the existing Kyoto Protocol to 2020
Adam Lanza shoots and kills twenty children and six staff members in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connnecticut
In The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson follows the central character in a successful and increasingly terrifying career through the horrors of contemporary North Korea
Anish Kapoor's 114.5 metres tall sculpture, AncelorMittal Orbit, is erected in the Queen Elizabeth Park, created in East London for the Olympic Games
Hilary Mantel wins the Booker Prize with Bring Up the Bodies, the second volume of her projected trilogy, having won it in 2009 with the first volume, Wolf Hall
The Burj Qatar in Doha, by the French architect Jean Nouvel, is named by the Council on Tall Buildings the best of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa
Benni Stefano, Italy's leading satirical novelist, publishes Di tutti le ricchezze ("Of all the riches") about unexpected disturbances in the quiet life of a retired professor
The first community opera, Free Will, composed online by a group of volunteers, has its premiere in the Finnish medieval castle of Olavinlinna
One of four versions of The Scream, painted by Edvard Munch, is sold by Sotheby's in New York for nearly $120 million, becoming the most expensive work of art sold at auction
The German novelist and poet Herta Müller publishes Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen ("Father is calling the Flies"), her first book of poetry since winning the Nobel Prize in 2009
