Biography

Economic

• 2010 Tunisian protests
• Automotive industry crisis
• Global financial crisis
  • European sovereign debt crisis
  • Greek economic crisis

Medical

• HIV/AIDS in Africa
• Haiti cholera outbreak

Political

• 2007–2010 Belgian political crisis
• 2010 Côte d'Ivoire crisis

Scientific

• Expedition 26

December

• 30: Bobby Farrell
• 29: Vladan Batić
• 29: Jimmy Coffey
• 29: Avi Cohen
• 29: John Doyle
• 28: Ali-Reza Asgari
• 26: Salvador Jorge Blanco
• 26: Teena Marie
• 25: Carlos Andrés Pérez
• 24: Elisabeth Beresford
• 24: Roy Neuberger
• 21: Enzo Bearzot
• 20: Brian Hanrahan
• 20: Steve Landesberg
• 19: Anthony Howard
• 18: Tasso Kavadia
• 18: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
• 17: María Jesús San Segundo
• 17: Captain Beefheart
• 16: Ruth Park
• 15: Blake Edwards
• 15: Bob Feller
• 14: Dale Roberts
• 13: Richard Holbrooke
• 13: James Dibble
• 13: Enrique Morente
• 12: Tom Walkinshaw
• 10: John Bennett Fenn
• 10: J. Michael Hagopian
• 10: MacKenzie Miller
• 9: James Moody
• 9: Boris Tishchenko
• 9: Nazario Moreno González
• 7: Elizabeth Edwards
• 7: Gus Mercurio
• 6: Hugues Cuénod

Global

• War on terror
  • Terrorist incidents
  • Operation Active Endeavour
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
• War on drugs

Africa

• OEF - Trans Sahara
• Chadian Civil War
• Darfur conflict
• Maghreb insurgency
• Somali Civil War
  • Somali Civil War (2009–present)
• Piracy in Somalia
• Sudanese nomadic conflicts
• OEF - Horn of Africa
• LRA insurgency

Europe

• Basque conflict
• Insurgency in the North Caucasus
• Civil war in Ingushetia

Middle East

• Iraq War
  • Iraqi insurgency
• Baluchi insurgency
• Palestinian political violence
  • Rocket attacks
• Israeli–Lebanese conflict
• Fatah–Hamas conflict
• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Conflicts in Yemen War
  • Terrorism
  • South Yemen insurgency
  • Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown
  • Shia insurgency in Yemen
• Conflicts in Kurdistan
  • Turkey–PKK conflict
  • Iran–PJAK conflict

Asia

• Afghan War
  • Military operations
  • Taliban insurgency
• Conflicts in Pakistan
  • War on Terror
  • North-West Pakistan war
  • Balochistan conflict
  • Drone attacks
  • Sectarian violence
• Conflicts in India
  • Terrorism in India
  • Jammu and Kashmir insurgency
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
  • Nagaland ethnic conflict
• Kashmir conflict
  • Siachen conflict
• Korean maritime border incidents
• Burma border clashes
• South Thailand insurgency
• Cambodian–Thai border stand-off
• Philippines insurgency
  • OEF - Philippines

Americas

• Colombian conflict
  • Plan Colombia
  • FARC
• Mexican drug war
  • Mérida Initiative
• Peru internal conflict

Recent: December 2010

• 5: Egypt, Parliament (2^nd Round)
• 12: Kosovo, Parliament
• 12: Slovenia, Public broadcaster law referendum
• 12: Transnistria, Parliament
• 13: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, General
• 19: Belarus, President
• 26: Comoros, President (2^nd Round)

Upcoming: January 2011

• 16: Haiti, President (2^nd Round)
• 23: Central African Republic, General
• 23: Portugal, President
• 31: Niger, President (1^st Round) and Parliament

Recently concluded

• Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla
• Cambodia: Kang Kek Iew
• Egypt: Hisham Talaat Moustafa
• France: Jérôme Kerviel, Air France Flight 4590
• Germany: Nadja Benaissa
• India: Ajmal Kasab
• Iran: Hossein Derakhshan
• Portugal: Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal
• Singapore: Alan Shadrake
• United States: Faisal Shahzad

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: David Russell Williams
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• France: Church of Scientology
• Germany: Heinrich Boere, John Demjanjuk
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
• Malaysia]]: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY), Geert Wilders
• Palau: Thomas Remengesau Jr.
• Peru: Joran van der Sloot
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr.
• Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Turkey: Ergenekon network
• United States: Buju Banton, David Headley, Rod Blagojevich, Ahmed Ghailani

Upcoming

• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Allen Stanford, Nidal Malik Hasan

• 16: Independence Day (Kazakhstan); National Day (Bahrain)
• 21: Winter solstice
• 24: Christmas Eve
• 25: Christmas Day
• 26: St Stephen's Day (Europe), Boxing Day (Commonwealth countries)
• 26–1 January: Kwanzaa (United States)
• 31: New Year's Eve