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Lists: world

  • The Best Travel Gadgets of 2009: Next time you hit the road, stay connected, be mobile and look drop-dead cool with 25 of the world's best tech gadgets

    The Best Travel Gadgets of 2009

  • Top 10 Worst-Dressed World Leaders: From Kim Jong Il's khaki unitard to Putin's bare-chested bravado, TIME examines the many fashion faux pas committed on the world stage

    Top 10 Worst-Dressed World Leaders

  • Top 10 Embarrassing Diplomatic Moments: Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's bizarre, disoriented appearance at a news conference sparked his resignation, but many leaders before him got by unscathed after rather questionable behavior. Here's a looks at some embarrassing leadership moments from around the world

    Top 10 Embarrassing Diplomatic Moments

  • World Economic Forum: With the global economy in crisis, Davos needs to forge a real intellectual breakthrough

    World Economic Forum

  • What Ahmadinejad's Win Means for Other World Leaders: World leaders have mostly reacted to President Ahmadinejad's re-election with tight-lipped caution. Here's what some of them are likely to do now

    What Ahmadinejad's Win Means for Other World Leaders

  • Top 10 Graphic Novels: As the movie version of the acclaimed graphic novel Watchmen — one of TIME's Top 100 Novels of All Time — hits the big screen, book critic Lev Grossman looks at the best of the form.

    Top 10 Graphic Novels

  • Top 10 Internet Blunders: In light of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's admission this month that he should have designed World Wide Web http addresses without the double forward slashes, TIME looks back at some other memorable screwups involving the Internet

    Top 10 Internet Blunders

  • Top 10 Back-to-School iPhone Applications: Back to school doesn't have to mean a return to the low-tech world of notebooks, textbooks and ballpoint pens. Here are our top 10 picks for iPhone applications to make life in the classroom quicker and easier — Dan Fletcher

    Top 10 Back-to-School iPhone Applications

  • Top 10 Celebrity Grave Sites: As Michael Jackson is laid to rest in Los Angeles, TIME takes a look at some of the most famous celebrity memorials from around the world

    Top 10 Celebrity Grave Sites

  • Community Service 2009: How companies big and small, old and new — and consumers too — are changing the world

    Community Service 2009

  • Top 10 Sporting Cheats: With Europe reeling from the controversial Thierry Henry handball that stamped France's ticket for the World Cup in South Africa, TIME looks back at some of the most infamous cases of sporting chicanery

    Top 10 Sporting Cheats

  • Top 10 Colorful First Spouses: Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of Japan's future Prime Minister, claims to have been to Venus and knew Tom Cruise in a previous life (when he was Japanese). Here's a look at some other world leaders' colorful companions

    Top 10 Colorful First Spouses

  • Top 10 Innocents Abroad: Former President Bill Clinton's retrieval of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea captured the world's attention. But hordes of foreigners have gotten themselves into hot water overseas. TIME looks back at 10 memorable incidents

    Top 10 Innocents Abroad

  • Top 10 Lefties: As the world celebrates International Left-Handers Day — or at least as 1 in 10 of us does — a look at some of history's most notable southpaws

    Top 10 Lefties

  • What to Expect When the Recession Ends: What does the economic world look like when the recession ends? Grim and grimmer

    What to Expect When the Recession Ends

  • The Legacy of F.D.R.: Franklin D. Roosevelt led the U.S. through a depression and a world war. By the time he died, the nation was profoundly changed — and we owe much of the change to him and his bold presidency

    The Legacy of F.D.R.

  • Top 10 E3 2009 Announcements: The biggest announcements from the largest video-game trade show in the world

    Top 10 E3 2009 Announcements

  • Top 10 Eurovision Controversies: Originally conceived in the 1950s as a way to bring Europeans together after World War II, the Eurovision Song Contest was never just about the music. With the 2009 finals in Moscow coming May 16, TIME takes a look at the years when controversy shouldered the singing out of the limelight

    Top 10 Eurovision Controversies

  • Top 10 Commencement Speeches: Forget the kerfuffles over President Obama's talks at Arizona State and Notre Dame. Commencement speeches are one of the great collegiate traditions — and the last lesson students get before entering the real world. Here are TIME's favorites

    Top 10 Commencement Speeches

  • Top 10 Panics!: Is Swine Flu really going to be the end of the world? We're dubious. Here are 10 cases of public panic throughout history that we've managed to survive — so far.

    Top 10 Panics!

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