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15 best books of 2012 – nonfiction
Here are the Monitor's picks for the 15 best nonfiction books of 2012.
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10 best books of 2012, according to Amazon's editors
The staff of book giant Amazon selected their picks for the 10 best titles of 2012. Here's the full list.
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Man Booker Prize: 6 nominees on the shortlist
These six novels made the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize. Which will win?
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5 countries where the death penalty is legal but rare
India’s Supreme Court sentenced the last surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, to death. Here is a list of 5 countries where the death penalty is a legal possibility, though rare.
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Osama bin Laden papers: top 5 revelations
A new trove of letters seized during the Osama bin Laden raid paint an intimate picture of the inner workings and struggles of Al Qaeda, from its dabbling in the stock market to practices that would make any Mafia don proud.
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Protesters march for women's safety in India on New Year's Eve
Protesters in India's major cities demanded safety for women in the wake of the death Friday of a 23-year-old woman who was gang raped in Delhi.
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Global News Blog
India gang rape spurs national dialogueAn Indian woman who was the victim of a gang rape and brutal beating earlier this month in New Delhi has been flown to Singapore for treatment, while the rest of India debates women's safety.
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Geminid meteor shower reigns in the night sky (+video)
Geminid meteor shower: Last night's annual meteor shower was a crowd pleaser. The Gemind meteor shower comes from debris shed by a 3-mile-wide asteroid called 3200 Phaethon.
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15 best books of 2012 – nonfiction
Here are the Monitor's picks for the 15 best nonfiction books of 2012.
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Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himalayan glacial trickle
Global water crisis: Reporter William Wheeler talks about water stress from the effects of climate change high in the Himalayas where India and Pakistan's great rivers start to Haiti's fresh-water pollution.
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With Kasab execution, Indian gears of justice unusually swift
India executed the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, in a move prompting surprise, cheers - and charges of politics.
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Kasab execution unlikely to impact India-Pakistan peace process
On Wednesday morning, India executed Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor amongst the 10 terrorists who killed 166 people in Mumbai in 2008.
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India executes surviving gunman of 2008 terrorist attacks
On Wednesday Indian officials quietly executed Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, one of the Pakistani men responsible for the Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008, which killed 166 people and escalated tensions between the two countries.
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Woman hits 'like' on Facebook, gets arrested in India
The offending post against recently deceased leader Bal Thackeray resulted in two arrests, the latest in a string of crackdowns on Internet speech in the world's largest democracy.
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Bal Thackeray: godfather of nativists in India's most cosmopolitan city
In death as in life, Bal Thackeray divided Mumbai. Mumbaikars shuttered shops fearing violence, while hundreds of thousands thronged the funeral today of the Shiv Sena founder.
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Global News Blog
Why Mumbai is so gripped by the status of right-wing Bal ThackerayMumbaikars closely followed news that one of their city's most controversial political leaders may be critically ill, resurfacing questions about succession.
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Chapter & Verse
National Book Awards go to 'The Round House' and 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers'The National Book Awards were given to writers Louise Erdrich and first-time author Katherine Boo in the fiction and nonfiction categories, respectively, while William Alexander and David Ferry were awarded the young people's literature and poetry prizes.
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10 best books of 2012, according to Amazon's editors
The staff of book giant Amazon selected their picks for the 10 best titles of 2012. Here's the full list.
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AQ Khan: Father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb jumps into politics
AQ Khan, lauded by many Pakistanis for giving the country the bomb, has launched a political movement targeting the youth vote. He has been accused of selling nuclear secrets to North Korea and Iran.
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Entrepreneur tries to get Yemenis buzzing about coffee, not qat
Yemen's best known crop is the narcotic leaf qat, but it was once coffee. A businessman seeks to revive the country's past reputation as a leading coffee producer.
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Chapter & Verse
Hilary Mantel and Will Self pull ahead in Man Booker Prize raceThe winner of the prestigious Man Booker literary prize will be announced in London on the evening of Oct. 16.
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Chapter & Verse
Booker Prize nominee Tan Twan Eng talks about his novel 'The Garden of Evening Mists'Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng: how to write historical novels that are also timeless.
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Chapter & Verse
National Book Award finalists are announcedJunot Diaz, Dave Eggers, and Katherine Boo all made the cut for final consideration for the award.
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Religious groups rally across Pakistan over anti-Islam film
Demonstrators in cities across Pakistan took to the streets to call for punishment against the makers of a film that insulted Islam.
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Man Booker Prize: 6 nominees on the shortlist
These six novels made the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize. Which will win?
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Indian artist jailed for anticorruption cartoons
Aseem Trivedi was arrested on charges of sedition and insulting national honor, raising concerns in India that the government is increasingly intolerant of dissent.
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Progress Watch
India and Pakistan sign landmark visa dealFor the first time ever, the two nuclear rivals have introduced tourist visas, sparking excited Facebook posts from Pakistanis eyeing a trip to the Taj Mahal and Indians looking to visit Harappa.
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5 countries where the death penalty is legal but rare
India’s Supreme Court sentenced the last surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, to death. Here is a list of 5 countries where the death penalty is a legal possibility, though rare.
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In wake of mass panic, India blames Pakistan-backed cyber attack
India charges that websites in Pakistan engaged in cyber warfare because they promoted rumors that caused thousands of ethnic minorities to flee the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
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How's business in India? Watch Bangalore
Bangalore, known as a magnet for India's technology jobs, is facing competition for investment from other cities, but business conditions are tough across India.
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