Tom Nagorski

Not So Fast, World

The Year No One Saw Coming

Rebuilding the Chain

Where might the ‘Asian Century’ take us, and the world, in the years to come?

A Tale of Two Summits

Trade: A New World Order

Remembering 185

Inbox Recalling Professor Maman

Inbox Learning from writers

The Global Note: Chris Stevens R.I.P….Extremists Here, Extremists There…The Film & The Filmmaker

MIDEAST FURY: U.S. ENVOY KILLED -U.S. AMBASSADOR KILLED…It's the most dramatic example of the nightmares that have come with the elation of the so-called "Arab Spring." U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans have been killed in that…

The Global Note: 40 Years After Munich…Syria's Refugees…A 6-Day Work Week For Greece?…The "McSpicy Paneer"

Here at ABC News we remember the day - not only for its horror - but because so much of the trauma played out on ABC, with a then-young Peter JENNINGS leading the coverage. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympics massacre. It was 40…

Test Your Smarts: This Week's Global News Quiz

1) This week an American explorer was airlifted from Antarctica. Name the air base where he was picked up. 2) In what body of water did a U.S. destroyer rescue 8 Iranians? 3) A British medical journal reported on a new concern for mothers in Africa.…

The Weekly Global News Quiz

1) What did Colonel Hassan Hamada do that made headlines? 2) Aung San Suu Kyi addressed both Houses of the British Parliament. Who is the only other woman to have been given that honor? 3) Why was Lesley Brown's death worth a mention? 4) Julian…

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi Formally Accepts Nobel Peace Prize 21 Years Later

The Global News Quiz

Did you read the Global Note this week? QUESTIONS 1) We've heard the term "Grexit" - coined to describe Greece's potential departure from the Euro. What's the new term coined to describe Spain's banking crisis? 2) Name two silver linings in the…

Test your global knowledge - how closely do you read the morning Global Note? 1) What is the "Agni-V" - and why did it rattle nerves across Asia this week? 2) Why might Americans have had special interest in this week's release of previously secret…

The Global Note: Secret Service Scandal…Bin Laden's Widows…Good News For the World's Children…Japan's "Skytree"

-THE LATEST…From Reena NINAN and our team in Cartagena: The Secret Service personnel relieved of duty for alleged misconduct in Colombia were partying at a Cartagena brothel called the Pley Club. The men were drinking heavily during their night out…

The Global Note: NATO Convoy Firefight…A Soldier's Sacrifice…North Korea's Rocket…The Tsunami Boat Owner

AFGHAN WAR -NATO SUPPLY CONVOY HIT…Insurgents ambushed a NATO coalition supply convoy in a mountainous area of western Afghanistan, sparking a three-hour firefight in which an Afghan soldier, five security guards, and 14 attackers were killed, Afghan…

The Global Note: Euro-Freeze…Russia's Warning On Syria…Prince William, "Conquistador"?…

EUROPE'S DEADLY FREEZE Take a look at these numbers: Poland - minus 22 degrees; Ukraine - minus 28; Romania - Minus 30; Britain - colder than the South Pole; Death toll so far Europe wide - 71. The brutal freeze has caused power outages and traffic…

The Global Note: Seal Team Rescue…Egypt, One Year Later…Man's Best Friend - For 33,000 Years

-THE RAID…American aid worker Jessica Buchanan and her Danish coworker Poul Thisted - held captive in Somalia for three months - were rescued in a daring nighttime raid by U.S. Navy SEALs. Very different details of course - but the story brings back…