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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Google provides the fastest-rising search queries for its news site as well. In this category, hard news topped celebrity gossip. Swine flu was the most-searched story of the year, drawing more reader interest than breakout singer Susan Boyle, reality show mainstays Jon and Kate, crooner Adam Lambert and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google's Year-End Zeitgeist | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

For a lifeline out of the crisis, Sheik Mohammed will certainly look again to Abu Dhabi, whose vast oil deposits make it by far the richest U.A.E. entity. It stepped up with $10 billion in support immediately after the global crash in 2008 and can be expected to do so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Woes a Blow to Ambitious Ruler Sheik Mo | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

The continent's most famous exploration, however, remains the race to the South Pole in the early 1900s between British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Using 52 sled dogs and with four companions, Amundsen won the race - making it to the pole after a near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

The Northern League, founded in 1991 on a platform to separate the richer northern regions from the rest of Italy, is as strong as it has ever been. It is now a key ally in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's majority in Parliament after garnering 10% of support in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Italian Town's White (No Foreigners) Christmas | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Such comments echo those heard in 2007 after Iran's Revolutionary Guards detained 15 U.K. servicemen in the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway that runs between Iran and Iraq. Back then, Tehran accused the Brits of trespassing in its waters. (London insisted the personnel had been patrolling Iraqi seas.) The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Captives in Iran Face Uncertain Fate | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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