A marauding Sushil flips Kazakhstan’s A. Tanatarov in the semis. A food poisoning scare limited him in the final.
“I wanted the national anthem to be heard on the Olym...
Manvender/PTI
Phelps in 200m individual medley heats at the London Olympics. After a slow start, he finished with four golds, two silvers.
“I was able to really put the final cherry o...
Francois Xavier Marit/AFP (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Hard-grounded Palestinian gunmen drag the body of a suspected informer in Gaza City
“They should have been killed in a more brutal fashion so others don’t think...
Mohammad Salem/Reuters
Coverage blues A protester of Ukrainian feminist group Femen is held in Brussels.
“The bare breast, which would normally objectify women, becomes a weapon for Fem...
Georges Gobet/AFP (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Speaking flames Jamphel Yeshi, a Tibetan exile, died after setting himself ablaze in Delhi during Chinese president Hu Jintao’s March visit to India.
“This is vi...
Manish Swarup/AP
Seen, touched US President Barack Obama meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon during a November visit to encourage political reforms in Myanmar.
“When success is in si...
Jewel Samad/AFP (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Putin quotes Kipling to protesters in an unsettling pre-election televised Q&A
“People should understood who it is they are voting to power.... Come to me, my Bandar-lo...
Ria Novosti/AFP (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Keeping low Love marriages, cellphones and uncovered heads were decreed out-of-bounds for the women of Asara village in Baghpat district, UP, by their khap panchayat in July...
Jitender Gupta
An unsteady footing Much like this human pyramid, protesters against the Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu hope plans for India’s largest nuclear project fall throug...
Adnan Abidi/Reuters (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Naysayers The issue of FDI in multi-brand retail roiled the nation in protests and threw Parliament out of gear. Samajwadi Party workers stop a train in Allahabad during a ...
PTI
Hate crush It’s a train from Bangalore, their place of work. Terror-stuck Northeastern people rush out in Guwahati station.
“We RSS members are trying to build...
Anupam Nath/AP
Growth figure This too is a picture of modern India. Health workers weigh a severely malnourished two-year-old Rajni at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre in Shivpuri dis...
Adnan Abidi/Reuters (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Anger Spills Soaked to the bone, protesters cower in the face of police water cannons near Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. Triggered by the gangrape of a 23-year-old student on...
Raveendran/AFP (From Outlook 14 January 2013)
Police charging a student during a protest to demand justice for the gang rape victim at Vijay chowk in New Delhi.
PTI Photo
This should not surprise anyone. The most trending person on Google in India during 2012 was Canadian-born porn-star and now Bollywood actress Sunny Leone, according to the Google...
Publicity still released for Jism 2
The hospital tag on a newborn child shows that he was born on 12/12/12, at 12:12 p.m. at a government hospital in Hyderabad.
AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.
Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from a capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos. In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, Baumgartner shattered the s...
AP Photo/ Red Bull Stratos
WHAT The ancient calendar, dating
back to 5th century BC, predicted’
the end of the world in 2012. WHY Doomsayers spent a good part
of the last coup...
Darryl Humenny and Stephanie Peterson hold their twin babies, Beckett and Freya, in the Birth Center in Hennepin County Medical Center. The twins were born hours apart, one on Dece...
AP Photo/ Richard Sennott/Star Tribune
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a sand sculpture of Anna Hazare and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a message "Hope for the Best" at Puri beach of Odisha.