Standard & Poor's downgrading of its rating on US sovereign debt
K.Adoboli, trader at UBS caught for fraud in connection with rogue trading
Warren Buffet in an op-ed tax breaks of the mega-rich
The successful capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden
Flooding in Bangkok leading to the evacuation of the capital
Eurozone crisis and prospect of double dip recession
Japan's tsunami distraught and nuclear reaction disaster that destroys
North Korea mass mourning for Kim Jong Il
Collapse and bankruptcy of MF Global
D.Strauss Kahn's IMF prostitution and sex scandal
Mohammad Bouazizi sets fire on himself and sparked the Arab Spring