2010-2019: Ten years of heartbreak and hope, in photos
Years from now, this period will be remembered as a time when our advancements—fuelled by accelerated trends in consumerism and technology—were countered by an increasing concern for our degrading pla
2011In a major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, the world&rsquos fi rst synthetic organ transplant was conducted by Swedish surgeons, led by professor Paolo Macchiarini (second from right). A 36-year-old man, suff ering from terminal cancer of the trachea, received a completely new windpipe. The cells used to regenerate the trachea were the patient&rsquos own, thus reducing chance
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2012The US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfi e on Mars. The photograph was taken from Vera Rubin Ridge on the Red Planet, capturing its surface.
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2013The world said goodbye to anti-apartheid revolutionary and peace activist Nelson Mandela on December 5. He was buried at Qunu, in the Eastern Cape province, where the ceremony was attended by 4,500 people, and included a 21-gun salute and a formation fl yover.
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2014Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever recipient of a Nobel Prize. The Pakistani activist won for her struggle against the suppression of children, and the right of all children to education.
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2015Worldwide electric car ownership reached 1 million. Pure electric car sales were led by Japan with a 28 percent market share of global sales, followed by the United States (26 percent), China (16 percent), France (11 percent) and Norway (7 percent). On a per capita basis, the leaders by far were Norway (6.1 percent) and the Netherlands (5.55 percent). The biggest electric car companie
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2016In the Brexit referendum of June 23, 52 percent of the voting British public opted to leave the European Union. The wheels were set in motion for the United Kingdom to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, but the Britons continue to be in turmoil over leaving.
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2017#MeToo: Allegations of sexual abuse against fi lm producer Harvey Weinstein led to a wave of similar accusations against more powerful personalities in Hollywood and other industries of primarily the English-speaking world. It saw some justice served in 2018 when Weinstein turned himself in to face rape and sexual assault charges. It&rsquos worldwide ramifi cations: A rethinking on th
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2018A data mining scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, the sale of data from some 50 million Facebook users, a Congressional grilling for founder Mark Zuckerberg, and the loss of $119 billion in stock value in a single day spelled a terrible year for the world&rsquos leading social media network. In other Big Tech news, Apple became the fi rst American publicly traded company to reach
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2019In one of the largest climate mobilisations in history, an international protest by young people and adults addressed the climate crisis and demanded action just before the UN Climate Summit was held in September in New York. Later, 500,000 people marched in a protest led by activist Greta Thunberg and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal. In its fi rst report since 2005
