Lockerbie Stirs Controversy

Britain's special relationship with the US took a heavy knock in August 2009 on account of the release of the only man convicted of blowing up an American airliner (Panam) over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988.

Japan Rejects Conservatives

Japan's opposition swept to a historic victory in election in August 2009, crushing the ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party the ran the country for most of the postwar era.

Unrest in Xinjiang

A protest about a brawl became China's bloodiest incident of Civil unrest since the Tiananmen Square massacre 20 years ago.

The Last of the Knnedys

      Edward Kennedy, a nine-times U.S. senator and a towering figure in the Democratic Party died at the age 77, in August 2009, after a year-long battle with cancer.

Swine Flu stirs panic

Swine flu,  a disease caused by the triple-reassorted flue virus A(H1N1) spread to as many as 170 countries in 2009, creating panic among the people.

Internal Crisis in Iran

The re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran in June 2009 plunged the country into its most serious internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution.