• Great Recession
  • European sovereign-debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis
  • Cypriot financial crisis

• North American drought

• Meat adulteration scandal

More details on ongoing conflicts below

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• 31: Ernie Bridge
• 31: Dmitri Uchaykin
• 30: Daniel Hoffman
• 30: Mal Moore
• 30: Phil Ramone
• 30: Edith Schaeffer
• 29: Reid Flair
• 29: Reginald Gray
• 29: Ralph Klein
• 28: Richard Griffiths
• 28: Soraya Jiménez
• 28: Robert V. Remini
• 27: Yvonne Brill
• 26: Wayne Fleming
• 26: Don Payne
• 25: Anthony Lewis
• 24: Deke Richards
• 24: Jessica Upshaw
• 23: Boris Berezovsky
• 23: Virgil Trucks
• 23: Joe Weider
• 22: Bebo Valdés
• 22: Ray Williams
• 21: Chinua Achebe
• 21: Harlon Hill
• 21: Pietro Mennea
• 20: James Herbert
• 20: George Lowe
• 20: Nicholas C. Petris
• 20: Zillur Rahman
• 20: Risë Stevens
• 19: Bud Palmer
• 19: Harry Reems
• 18: Henry Bromell
• 17: Steve Davis
• 17: Olivier Metzner
• 17: Umm Nidal
• 16: José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz
• 16: Jason Molina
• 16: Yadier Pedroso
• 16: Bobby Smith
• 16: Frank Thornton
• 15: Booth Gardner
• 15: Terry Lightfoot
• 15: Kallam Anji Reddy
• 14: Jim Barrett
• 14: Norman Collier
• 14: Jack Curran
• 14: Jack Greene
• 14: Ieng Sary
• 13: Richard Davey
• 13: Cartha DeLoach
• 13: Veer Bhadra Mishra
• 12: Clive Burr
• 11: Tony Gubba
• 11: Sripada Pinakapani
• 10: Brian Archer
• 10: Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
• 10: Ian Munro Ross
• 10: Masao Yamaguchi
• 9: Viren J. Shah
• 9: Merton Simpson
• 8: Haseeb Ahsan
• 8: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
• 8: George Saimes
• 7: Kenny Ball
• 7: Peter Banks
• 7: John J. Byrne
• 7: Dirk Coetzee
• 7: Claude King
• 6: Chorão
• 6: Stompin' Tom Connors
• 6: Alvin Lee
• 5: Paul Bearer
• 5: Hugo Chávez
• 4: Menachem Froman
• 4: Harry Greene
• 4: Fran Warren
• 3: Luis Cubilla
• 3: Müslüm Gürses
• 3: Bobby Rogers
• 3: James Strong
• 2: Mokhtar Belmokhtar
• 2: Peter Harvey
• 2: Giorgos Kolokithas
• 1: Jewel Akens
• 1: Bonnie Franklin
• 1: Sammy Guillen
• 1: Rafael Puyana

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• War on Terror
  • Terrorist incidents
  • Operation Active Endeavour
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
• War on Drugs

• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Maghreb insurgency
• OEF - Horn of Africa
• OEF - Trans Sahara

• DR Congo:
  • M23 rebellion

• Egypt
  • Egyptian protests

• Libya:
  • Libyan factional fighting

• Mali:
  • Northern Mali conflict

• Nigeria:
  • Nigerian Sharia conflict
  • Niger Delta conflict

• Somalia:
  • Civil War
  • Piracy

• Sudan and South Sudan:
  • Sudan internal conflict
  • South Sudan internal conflict

• Colombian conflict
• Mexican Drug War

• Afghanistan War
  • Military operations
  • Taliban insurgency

• Pakistan:
  • North-West War
  • Sectarian violence

• India:
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
  • Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines

• Korean maritime border conflict

• Southeast Asia:
  • Cambodian–Thai border dispute
  • Kachin conflict
  • Papua conflict
  • South Thailand insurgency
  • Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

• North Caucasus insurgency
• War in Ingushetia
• Dissident Irish Republican campaign

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict

• Iraqi insurgency

• Kurdistan:
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Kurdish–Iranian conflict

• Syrian civil war

• Yemen:
  • al-Qaeda crackdown
  • South Yemen insurgency
  • Shia insurgency

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• 3: Switzerland, Referendum
• 4: Kenya, General
• 5: Micronesia, Parliament
• 9: Malta, General
• 10– 11: Falkland Islands, Sovereignty referendum
• 12: Greenland, Parliament
• 12– 13: Holy See, Conclave
• 16: Zimbabwe, Constitutional referendum

• 7: Montenegro, President
• 14: Venezuela, President
• 21: Paraguay, General
• 22– 23: Egypt, Parliament (1st round)
• 23: Bhutan, National Council
• 27: Iceland, Parliament
• 29– 30: Egypt, Parliament (1st round; run-off)

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• Canada: Michael Rafferty
• Croatia: Ivo Sanader
• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Alaa Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak
• Germany: Breno Borges
• Indonesia: Abu Bakar Bashir
• Netherlands: Ante Gotovina ( ICTY), Mladen Markač ( ICTY), Momčilo Perišić ( ICTY)
• Norway: Anders Behring Breivik
• Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor ( SCFSL)
• South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
• Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
• United Kingdom: Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw
• United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: Luka Magnotta
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga ( ICC), Radovan Karadžić ( ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
• Palau: Tommy Remengesau
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
• Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
• United Kingdom: Koo Stark, Dale Cregan
• United States: Ahmed Ghailani, David Headley, Charles P. White, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Viktor Bout, Lauryn Hill
• Vatican: Vatileaks scandal

• Czech Republic: Václav Klaus
• France: Éric Raoult
• Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
• Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
• United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Mark Bridger, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell
• United States: Nidal Malik Hasan, Javaris Crittenton, Bradley Manning, Robert Bales, George Zimmerman, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Crystal Mangum

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