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North Korea carries out its third underground nuclear test
Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp
A huge meteor enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring more than 1000 people
In the italian election Beppe Grillo's new Five Star Movement wins 25% of the votes but refuses to join any coalition
Pope Benedict XVI resigns, the first pope to do so for 600 years
Xi Jinping is elected the President of the People's Republic of China
Scientists at CERN announce that the recently discovered particle is beyond doubt the Standard Model of the Higg's boson
After a prolonged financial crisis Cyprus accepts stringent terms for a European Union €10 billion bailout
After the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro wins a close and strongly disputed presidential election
Two Chechen terrorists explode pressure-cooker bombs in the crowd during the Boston Marathon, leaving three people dead and more than 160 injured
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston terrorist attack, is killed in a shoot-out with police
After the arrest of the second Boston suspect it emerges that the terrorists are two Muslim brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The collapse of a jerry-built garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results in massive casualties and more than 1000 deaths
The Peruvian government announces that the high-prolile Camisea Gas Project will be able to provide over the years $2.6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas
Israel makes the first of two air strikes into Syria, targeting arsenals of the terrorist group Hezbollah
In a London street two men hack to death a British soldier, Lee Rigby, and tell passers-by that they are avenging Muslims killed by the army
Zimbabwe's new constitution introduces important reforms but enables 89-year-old Robert Mugabe to serve two more 5-year presidential terms
The European Union lifts the ban on providing arms to the rebels in Syria
Vast demonstrations, influenced by the Arab spring and involving hundreds of thousands of people, erupt in Brazil's cities as a protest against multiple issues of corruption and the cost of living
The Afghan Taliban attempt to project a new image, opening an office in Qatar
The Guardian, a UK newspaper, publishes the first of many scoops based on the secret files of NSA and GCHQ, leaked by Edward Snowden
Flash floods in India kill nearly 6000 people and isolate more than 20,000
A cleric with moderate views, Hassan Rouhani, wins Iran's presidential election, raising international hopes for dialogue
Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, is rejected in a Labour party vote and is replaced by Kevin Rudd
Violent clashes erupt again throughout Egypt between Muslim Brotherhood supporters of President Morsi and those objecting to his Islamist policies
