newsmakers-2011

From the IMF’s first pink ribbon at the top to the new country on the map–a close look at this year’s newcomers

From Oprah to Glenn Beck: the ones who bowed out, and those who were booted out

From Tavi Gevinson to Maria Aragon, 2011 had plenty of dynamite girls

From scam marriage to b-day parties with dictators–they’ve done it

From average Joes like Dennis Manuge to celebs like Kate Winslet

He had Libyan dissidents gunned down in London, sponsored the Italian Red Brigades, and kept an album of photographs of Condoleeza Rice–to cite a few

When 700 workers were evacuated from a Japanese nuclear power plant, these few stayed behind to battle a meltdown

As Two and a Half Men rolls on without him, Charlie treads the familiar path of a washed-up star and turns to cable tv

From Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik to cancer fraudster Ashley Kirilow: portraits of evil

From Sarah Palin’s presidential bid to dire visions of the apocalypse–everything that didn’t turn out in 2011