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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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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 07/23
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Gallery: World's biggest energy hogs
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Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
BBC journalist Sam Miller offers a glimpse of the sprawling, maddening, addictive megacity that has become his home.
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Rupee gets a currency symbol signaling arrival on global economic stage
Rupee has joined the ranks of the dollar, the pound, the euro and the yen with its own currency symbol.
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As wealth rises in India, so do private towns
As more Indians pack into already crowded cities, developers are wooing wealthy urbanites with private towns boasting amenities like gardens, pools, walkable streets, schools, and a golf academy.
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New donors emerge in developing countries
As the newly wealthy in emerging nations turn to philanthropy, global charity gets a boost.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/30
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India, Pakistan release prisoners ahead of top talks
India-Pakistan peace talks appear to be picking up, as both countries made 'goodwill gestures' of releasing prisoners ahead of a meeting between home ministers.
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In Pictures: Mumbai laundry workers
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In Pictures: Scenes of fatherhood
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 06/15
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Difference Maker A passion for learning results in a school for India's poorest children
Babar Ali, just a teenager himself, has started a free school in his parents' backyard for the poorest children in his village in India's West Bengal region.
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In Pictures: Bubbles
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She sees the places to go, he the reasons to stay as they journey separate way
Her father's days as a pilot have left him longing for home, while she is just beginning her journeys.
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Third suspected Maoist attack on India train kills 65
Rebel Maoists in eastern India are suspected of causing a passenger train to derail and collide with an oncoming freight train in West Bengal Friday. It would be their third deadly attack in two months, signaling the insurgency's growing momentum.
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Vienna ranked best city in world; Baghdad worst
Mercer's 2010 Quality of Living Survey ranks 221 cities, with Vienna at the top, Baghdad at the bottom, and Honolulu as the best in America. But the list of best places to live arguably values comfort over dynamism.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court OKs release of militant linked to Mumbai attacks
Pakistan's highest court today upheld a decision to release Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, whom India says masterminded the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Difference Maker Planting saplings in tree-starved Mumbai 'is the least I can do.'
Satish Vijaykumar's The Sapling Project wants to plant 10,000 trees in Mumbai, where trees are losing out to rapid economic development, and then expand to the rest of India and beyond.
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Does investing in China make sense?
Or is Beijing a boom town ready to bust?
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'Kites' movie brings together 'Rush Hour' director and Bollywood
An Indian film company hopes to market the 'Kites' movie to American audiences by bringing together a beautiful Mexican actress, Bollywood's biggest hunk, and the director of 'Rush Hour.'
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Gallery: Who has nukes?
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Super Bowl meets Bollywood at cricket's IPL match
Cheerleaders, big lights, and dance – put them together and what have you got? The Indian Premier League, or cricket's IPL match.
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Educated and radical: Why Pakistan produces Faisal Shahzads
In Pakistan, educated middle-class youths such as Faisal Shahzad, the accused Times Square car bomber, have ready access to jihadist and other radical, anti-American resources.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 05/06
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Help US prevent future Faisal Shahzads? Pakistan demurs.
The US is likely to further pressure on Pakistan to clear militant strongholds after Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad said he trained in one. But Pakistan has wavered on cracking down before.
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