North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il, Col. Muammar Qaddafi, Family Circus creator Bil Keane, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden.

Once again, the world experienced several million deaths over the course of a year. Five of those people who died were famous.

Nobody affected the local world more than these five people.

This week, The Onion Review takes a look back at some of the most important news stories that shaped our lives in 2011.

Party brinksmanship in Congress has led to the government nearly shutting down on multiple occasions this year.

A roundup of the great minds who brought us discovery, innovation, and a phone you can yell at to find you Chinese food.

Though box office receipts, TV ratings, and music sales went down, 2011 was still a banner year for video games and streaming video.

Who were the biggest newsmakers in movies, music, and ruling over the country of England?

Today The Onion counts down the biggest names in international news, from leaders removed from power to those still happily rigging national elections.

This year saw political unrest in the Middle East and Russia, economic crisis in Europe, and a former president of the Ivory Coast on trial ...

In a year in which the world economy continued to slide, here are five people everybody can blame in order to avoid taking any individual ...

This year, the struggling economy once again dominated headlines, and most of the news was bad. How has the slow recovery affected you?

Jar Of Change On Dresser Sadly Factoring Into A Number Of Financial Decisions 

NEW YORK—Peering down from their 15th-floor boardroom onto the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, executives at the financial services ...

SALT LAKE CITY—With a recent Gallup poll indicating only 2 percent of his party supports his candidacy for president, Jon Huntsman confided to staffers ...

PALO ALTO, CA—In its ongoing effort to enrich the way people connect and interact, social media website Facebook introduced a new feature Monday that ...

KÖNIGSBERG, EAST PRUSSIA—Baron Fritz von Friedrich VII, steward of Württemberg, told reporters Saturday that the LASIK surgery he recently underwent to correct ...

SANTA ROSA, CA—A study released by the California Parenting Institute Tuesday shows that every style of parenting inevitably causes children to grow into profoundly ...