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From left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–11, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed.; Crimea is annexed by Russia in 2014; ISIS/ISIL perpetrates terrorist attacks and captures territory in Syria and Iraq; climate change awareness and the Paris Agreement; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole in 2019; Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage in the United States in 2015; increasing use of digital and mobile technologies; the UK votes to leave the EU in 2016.

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens"; shortened to "the '10s", also known as the tens or the teens) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 2010, and ended on 31 December 2019.

The decade began amid a global financial crisis and subsequent international recession dating from the late 2000s. The resulting European sovereign-debt crisis became more pronounced early in the decade and continued to affect the possibility of a global economic recovery. Economic issues, such as austerity, inflation, and an increase in commodity prices, led to unrest in many countries, including the 15-M and Occupy movements. Unrest in some countries—particularly in the Arab world—evolved into socioeconomic crises triggering revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain as well as civil wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen in a regional phenomenon commonly referred to as the Arab Spring. Shifting social attitudes saw LGBT rights and female representation make substantial progress during the decade, particularly in the West.

The United States continued to retain its global superpower status while China, along with launching vast economic initiatives and military reforms, sought to expand its influence in the South China Sea and in Africa, solidifying its position as an emerging global superpower, despite also causing series of conflicts around its frontiers, including conflicts with foreign governments with countries around South China Sea, Japan, South Korea, Mekong river countries, Taiwan, and its wolf warrior diplomacy have also distanced itself from some other countries, and within its border China also enhaced suppression and control on territories like Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and such; global competition between China and the U.S. coalesced into a "containment" effort and a trade war. Elsewhere in Asia, the Koreas improved their relations after a prolonged crisis and the War on Terror continued as Osama bin Laden was assassinated by U.S. forces in a raid on his compound in Pakistan as a part of the U.S.'s continued military involvement in many parts of the world. The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant extremist organisation in 2014 erased the borders between Syria and Iraq, resulting in a multinational intervention that also saw the demise of its leader. In Africa, South Sudan broke away from Sudan, and mass protests and various coups d'état saw longtime strongmen deposed. In the U.S., celebrity businessman Donald Trump was elected president amid an international wave of populism and neo-nationalism. The European Union experienced a migrant crisis in the middle of the decade and the historic United Kingdom EU membership referendum followed by withdrawal negotiations during its later years. Russia attempted to assert itself in international affairs, annexing Crimea in 2014. (Full article...)

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Simplified Ebola virus epidemic situation map

The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in Western Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the region, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The first cases were recorded in Guinea in December 2013; later, the disease spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, with minor outbreaks occurring in Nigeria and Mali. Secondary infections of medical workers occurred in the United States and Spain. In addition, isolated cases were recorded in Senegal, the United Kingdom and Italy. The number of cases peaked in October 2014 and then began to decline gradually, following the commitment of substantial international resources.

It caused significant mortality, with a considerable case fatality rate. By the end of the epidemic, 28,616 people had been infected; of these, 11,310 had died, for a case-fatality rate of 40%. , the World Health Organization (WHO) and respective governments reported a total of 28,646 suspected cases and 11,323 deaths (39.5%), though the WHO believes that this substantially understates the magnitude of the outbreak. (Full article...)

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Image 1Devastation in Mosul's old city after recapture from ISIL in 2017 (from 2010s)
Image 2Jürgen Mossack, co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, which shut down in light of revelations from the Panama Papers. (from 2010s)
Image 3Rapper Macklemore sporting an undercut. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 4Maroon 5 performing live in 2016 (from 2010s in music)
Image 5Kesha performing on the American television program Today in 2012 (from 2010s in music)
Image 6Taylor Swift was one of the most successful country artists of the 2010s. Her albums Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012) topped charts and opened with more than a million copies sold in their first weeks. (from 2010s in music)
Image 7The weighted capital city residential property price index, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, since 2003 (from 2010s)
Image 8Malala Yousafzai (from 2010s)
Image 9The financial crisis dissipated through the early 2010s under Barack Obama. The United States economy was at its all-time best, when former reality television star and businessman Donald Trump became president. (from 2010s)
Image 10Billy Ray Cyrus (from 2010s in music)
Image 11Lorde won two Grammy Awards in 2014, including Song of the Year for Royals, and was one of the most successful New Zealand artists of the decade. (from 2010s in music)
Image 12Barbadian artist Rihanna had the most songs top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 2010s (nine). (from 2010s in culture)
Image 13Protesters in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. (from 2010s)
Image 1428 February 2014: following the removal of pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from office, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine (from 2010s)
Image 15Women to drive movement: Women's rights in Saudi Arabia made progress when women were allowed to drive in the kingdom in 2018. (from 2010s)
Image 16J Balvin in 2018 (from 2010s in music)
Image 17Good Charlotte performing in 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 18LeBron James, a sports icon of the decade, is the only NBA player to have won four championships with three separate franchises. (from 2010s)
Image 19Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and United States President Donald Trump in 2019. Both leaders are emblematic of a wave of neo-nationalist and globalisation-weary conservative populism in the second half of the decade. (from 2010s)
Image 20Post Malone performing on the main stage at Stavernfestivalen in 2018 (from 2010s in music)
Image 21Grammy Award-winning Skrillex in 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 22Foo Fighters performing live in 2007 (from 2010s in music)
Image 23Fall Out Boy (from 2010s in music)
Image 24Tool's live performances in 2006 included an elaborate light show using 10,000 Days artwork by painter Alex Grey as a backdrop. (from 2010s in music)
Image 25Solange Knowles performing at Coachella in 2014 (from 2010s in music)
Image 26Alan Jackson (from 2010s in music)
Image 27In red: the area controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) proto-state in December 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 28Xi Jinping became China's leader for life in 2018. (from 2010s)
Image 29Natalia Lafourcade (from 2010s in music)
Image 30Michelle Branch performing in August 2009 (from 2010s in music)
Image 31The war-torn ruins of Donetsk International Airport in late December 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 32Muse (from 2010s in music)
Image 33The ruins of buildings destroyed in the 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings, which killed over 500 people. (from 2010s)
Image 34Flume's Flume peaked at number 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart and won four awards at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013. (from 2010s in music)
Image 35Casting Crowns (from 2010s in music)
Image 36Electronic producer Marshmello (from 2010s in music)
Image 37Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias recorded a remix version of the album track "Dirty Dancer" was released as the fourth English single and became his ninth Hot Dance Club Play chart topper, tying with Prince and Michael Jackson as the male with the most No. 1 dance singles. (from 2010s in music)
Image 38Ed Sheeran (from 2010s in music)
Image 39Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on 15 April 2013. (from 2010s)
Image 40Adele, the highest-selling musical artist of the 2010s (from 2010s)
Image 41Gotye was one of the most successful Australian artists of the early 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 42Burj Khalifa, tallest building when completed in 2010. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 43The 2014 Hong Kong protests (from 2010s)
Image 44Mumford & Sons were considered one of the most successful British bands of the early 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 45Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (from 2010s in music)
Image 46Selena Gomez gained global popularity in the 2010s, due in part to her hushed vocal style. (from 2010s in music)
Image 47Dua Lipa was one of the most successful (from 2010s in music)
Image 48Montage of the November 2015 Paris attacks. Islamic terrorism in Europe spiked following the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014. (from 2010s)
Image 49Rosalía performing to a crowd of 63,000 people at Primavera Sound in June 2019
Image 50John Mayer (from 2010s in music)
Image 51Concerns over social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the influence of corporations on government led to the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 (from 2010s)
Image 52Imagine Dragons were an instant success after the release of their debut album, Night Visions. (from 2010s in music)
Image 53Algerian protesters gather during the 2019 "Smile Revolution" (from 2010s)
Image 54Blackpink has broken numerous online records throughout their career (from 2010s in music)
Image 55Unscheduled change of governments in Euro countries (marked red) due to crisis (from 2010s in political history)
Image 56Robyn, the Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ. (from 2010s in music)
Image 57Adele during this decade established herself as the best selling British female artist of all time. Her 21 (2011) and 25 (2015) became two of the best selling albums of the 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 58P5+1 and Iranian negotiators meeting in Geneva for the interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme (2013) (from 2010s)
Image 59The Japanese group AKB48 was one of the most successful J-pop artists of the early 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 60Avocado salad, tomato and salsa on a toasted baguette. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 61Edward Snowden, former NSA employee who revealed a large number of global surveillance programs. (from 2010s)
Image 62Country pop music duo Dan + Shay (from 2010s in music)
Image 63Applications such as Wii Street U merged the world of video games and technology. Wii Street U used Google Street View to examine cities of the world, streets, and addresses on a virtual globe. It shut down in 2016, following other Nintendo developed apps like the Wii Forecast Channel and Wii News Channel which shut down in Summer 2013. (from 2010s)
Image 64Justin Timberlake performing on his 20/20 Experience Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina (from 2010s in music)
Image 65Nickelback in May 2006 (from 2010s in music)
Image 66In 2017 Gloria Trevi collaborated with fellow Mexican artist Alejandra Guzmán for the album Versus. (from 2010s in music)
Image 67Pope Francis with U.S. President Barack Obama, 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 68The PlayStation 4 was released in November 2013 and is the best-selling gaming console of the decade (100+ million units sold worldwide ). (from 2010s in culture)
Image 69Greece and Eurozone's rise of debt in the early years of the decade (from 2010s)
Image 70Jamal Khashoggi (from 2010s)
Image 71Tom Brady with the Vince Lombardi Trophy following Super Bowl LI, 6 February 2017 (from 2010s in culture)
Image 72The Arab Spring saw mass unrest in the Arab world early in the decade:
  Government overthrown multiple times
  Government overthrown
  Civil war
  Protests and governmental changes
  Major protests
  Minor protests   Other protests and militant action outside the Arab world (from 2010s)
Image 73From left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–11, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed.; Crimea is annexed by Russia in 2014; ISIS/ISIL perpetrates terrorist attacks and captures territory in Syria and Iraq; climate change awareness and the Paris Agreement; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole in 2019; Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage in the United States in 2015; increasing use of digital and mobile technologies; the UK votes to leave the EU in 2016. (from 2010s)
Image 74Psy's song "Gangnam Style" broke the record for the most number of YouTube views during 2012 until 2017. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 75Saudi and Emirati soldiers in Yemen, June 2016. Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemeni Civil War in 2015 (from 2010s)
Image 76A man and a delivery robot waiting at a pedestrian crossing in Redwood City, California, United States. E-commerce spurred advancements in drone delivery and transformed parts of the services and retail sectors (from 2010s)
Image 77The Parade of Nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics (from 2010s in culture)
Image 78Anti-Ghaddafi fighters celebrate during the Libyan Civil War. (from 2010s)
Image 79For over 15 months it was unclear what exactly happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 until at the end of July 2015 a few remnants of the plane swept to the shores of the island of Réunion (from 2010s)
Image 80Peshmerga T-55 tank outside Kirkuk on 19 June 2014. Iraqi Kurdistan played a significant role in combatting ISIL during the Iraqi Civil War (from 2010s)
Image 81Muammar Gaddafi (from 2010s)
Image 82In 2013, China launched the ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, with over 150 countries announcing participation by the end of the decade. (from 2010s)
Image 83BRICS, a supranational economic cooperative comprising five major emerging national economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—grew to represent over 3.1 billion people, or about 41 percent of the world population by 2015. (from 2010s)
Image 84Syrian and Iraqi refugees arriving in Greece. In the 2010s Europe had been severely affected by a huge migration from Africa and Middle East (from 2010s)
Image 85Twice performing at Seoul Arts College in February 2016 (from 2010s in music)
Image 86American rapper Nelly (from 2010s in music)
Image 87On 10 April 2010 a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed in Russia with the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other passengers including many senior officials (from 2010s)
Image 88North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump meet during the first North Korea–United States summit in Singapore, June 2018 (from 2010s)
Image 89Sơn Tùng M-TP (from 2010s in music)
Image 90Territorial changes of the Syrian Civil War, October 2011 – March 2019. (from 2010s)
Image 91In the 2010s, the K-pop group BTS broke numerous records in South Korea and the rest of the world, with the hit songs "DNA", "Fake Love", and "Idol", and obtaining an immense fanbase globally. (from 2010s in music)
Image 92TobyMac's 2012 album Eye on It became the third Christian album to ever debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200. (from 2010s in music)
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Image 93Osama bin Laden (from 2010s)
Image 94Cardi B (from 2010s in music)
Image 95French Rafale fighter jets operating over Mali in 2013 during the Northern Mali Conflict (from 2010s)
Image 96Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (from 2010s)

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Robin Lim ("Mother Robin," or "Ibu Robin") is a midwife and founder of Yayasan Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) health clinics, which offer free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid to anyone who needs it. She and her team have been working since 2003 to combat Indonesia's high maternal and infant mortality rates, and the Bumi Sehat birth centers serve many at-risk mothers. She was awarded the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year award by the CNN news network for helping thousands of low-income women in Indonesia with healthy pregnancy and birth services. (Full article...)

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Interesting facts

... that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
... that the Taylor Swift masters controversy was described by Rolling Stone as one of the "most important moments" in music of the 2010s?
... that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s?
... that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989, "New Romantics" by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone?
... that Paul English, co-founder of Kayak, offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?

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