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Drifting in on inflatable boats, 10 young men brought India’s largest city to its knees in a 60-hour siege last month. But, Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, has been quick to get back on its feet and resume business as usual.

This year, a historic U.S. election, a catastrophic financial crisis,and China's Olympic dreams dominated headlines, but some of the biggest stories never made the front page. From the Afghanistan "surge" that's already begun, to the global warming solution that could be making the problem worse, here are 10 big stories that never became big news.

In a world running low on oil, several countries are still sitting on massive supplies. If only they could get to them.

Put down your tarot cards. Here’s a list of reasons why you should (and shouldn’t) fear the reaper in the coming decades.

Everyone expects the U.S. president to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, or understand the causes of the financial meltdown. But in today’s high-tech world, many critical issues have more to do with electrons than economics. Here are five short physics lessons for President-elect Obama from the author of Physics for Future Presidents.

With its bounty of natural resources, it could have been one of the world’s wealthiest countries. Instead, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been plundered and wracked with fighting. And if one rebel leader has his way, the government will be overthrown in this latest outbreak of violence.

James Bond is out for revenge in the new film, Quantum of Solace. But here in the real world, the intelligence community is badly in need of a superspy to solve some of its biggest conundrums. Here are five missions we’d love Agent 007 to tackle.

Breakneck economic development has turned China into one of the most polluted places on Earth, and the country’s ceramics industry is hardly blame free. In the ceramics capital of Foshan, entire factories that produce everything from glazed sculptures to porcelain tiles have been relocated in an effort to clear the air.

Some of the most pressing international issues the next president will face were barely discussed during the 2008 campaign. How will McCain or Obama handle them? We’ll just have to wait and see.

You’ve seen the picks chosen by FP’s panel of experts. Now it’s your turn. Who do you think should advise the next U.S. president? Select from the choices below, or choose a write-in candidate for each of the five key foreign-policy jobs.

In “Think Again: Catholic Church,” John L. Allen Jr. writes, “Catholics who have been around the block know that whenever someone in authority begins a sentence with, ‘As the church has always taught …,’ some long-standing idea or practice is about to be turned on its head.” Herewith, five of the biggest such reversals of doctrine in the church’s history.

In FP’s November/December issue, E.J. Graff investigates “The Lie We Love”—an international adoption system plagued with misrepresentations, corruption, and emotion. Follow adoption through several continents and countless families and lives in this accompanying online photo essay.