Decoding the decade

What's the most important international story of the past decade?

Margaret MacMillan picks the most momentous events and issues of the decade. Help us by nominating yours

Comedy Network host Stephen Colbert takes a skeleton ride while filming a segment after the FIBT Bob & Skeleton World Cup on November 22, 2009 at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Colbert to Blair: 'I am sorry you're cheaters"

News magazine's comedic host takes Canadians to task over practice time flap at Olympic oval during visit to Lake Placid, N.Y. on Sunday

From Saturday's Books section

Review: The Wild Things, by Dave Eggers

Reviewed by Maria Tatar

Life: Live Better

How to avoid holiday panic

Our weekly guide to your life: We break down what needs to be done, and when, for every week until Christmas

An Afghan child heads home with his cattle in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, Nov. 22, 2009.

Taliban fight stalled while U.S. mulls troop surge

Afghan defence minister tells The Globe of his frustrations with Obama's decision process, saying the delay hurts the campaign

Agriculture

Solving hunger with super-rice

Three billion people depend on rice. But it's being ravaged by a serious salt problem in the world's soil. A Canadian researcher hopes to find a solution with his breed of super grains that resist salt

Two decades on, child poverty persists with no solution in sight

Why is it that nearly 10 per cent of Canadian kids live below the poverty line, even as parliament pledged to end child poverty?

While jailed in Tehran, Canadian journalist considered suicide

Maziar Bahari spent nearly four months in Evin prison, where he lost 25 pounds and says he was hit, kicked and whipped

Republican offers a green hand to Canada

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, who dared Republicans' wrath with his environmental stand, is seeking allies north of the border

Tories to introduce child-porn bill

Proposed legislation is said to require Internet service providers to report suspicious sites and activity

Vancouver 2010

Olympic torch visits Anne's world

Cavendish residents gather on the old Macneill farm, site of Lucy Maud Montgomery's fictional Green Gables

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Today's Highlights

Globe Drive: Top 50 for 2010
Naughty... and nice

Michael Vaughan and Jeremy Cato give you the best of the socially conscious ... and then get to the good stuff

2010 BMW 5-Series GT
Video
Built by moms, for moms

Debbie Zinman and Alison Smith, co-founders of ECHOage, an online birthday party service that combines gift giving with charity, took their Web developer's advice and turned it on its head. "We're dealing with mothers," Ms. Zinman says. "So we wanted to design our home page in a very specific way."

ECHOage acts as a third party to ask parents for a donation on behalf of the birthday child. Half goes to a charity of the child's choice and half is sent as a cheque to the parents of the birthday child to buy a gift of the child's choice.

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Decoding the decade: Underrated films

Our readers' top list. Which film from our list of finalists do you think is the decades most underrated film?