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The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand [and] tens"; shortened to "the '10s" and also known as "the Tens" or "the Teens") was the decade that began on 1 January 2010 and ended on 31 December 2019.

The decade began with an economic recovery from the Great Recession. Inflation and interest rates stayed low and steady throughout the decade, gross world product grew from 2010 to 2019. Global economic recovery accelerated during the latter half of the decade, fueled by strong economic growth in many countries, robust consumer spending, increased investment in infrastructure, and the emergence of new technologies. However, the recovery developed unevenly. Socioeconomic crises in some countries—particularly in the Arab world—triggered political revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain as well as civil wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen in a regional phenomenon that was commonly referred to as the Arab Spring. Meanwhile, Europe had to grapple with a debt crisis that was pronounced early in the decade. Shifting social attitudes saw LGBT rights make substantial progress throughout the decade, particularly in developed countries.

The decade saw the musical and cultural dominance of dance-pop, electronic dance music, hipster culture and electropop. Globalization and an increased demand for variety and personalisation in the face of music streaming services such as Spotify, SoundCloud and Apple Music created many musical subgenres. As the decade progressed, diversity was also seen with the mainstream success of K-pop, Latin music and trap. Superhero films became box office leaders, with Avengers: Endgame becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. Cable providers saw a decline in subscribers as cord cutters switched to lower cost online streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Disney+. The video game industry continued to be dominated by Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft; while indie games became more popular, with Minecraft becoming the best-selling game of all time. Handheld console gaming revenue was overtaken by mobile gaming revenue in 2011. The best-selling book of this decade was Fifty Shades of Grey. Drake was named the top music artist of the decade in the U.S. by Billboard. (Full article...)

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The 2017–2018 North Korea crisis was a period of heightened tension between North Korea and the United States. The crisis began early in 2017 when North Korea conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests that demonstrated the country's ability to launch ballistic missiles beyond its immediate region, suggesting their nuclear weapons capability was developing at a faster rate than had been assessed by U.S. intelligence. Both countries started exchanging increasingly heated rhetoric, including nuclear threats and personal attacks between the two leaders, which, compounded by a joint U.S.–South Korea military exercise undertaken in August and North Korea's sixth nuclear test in September, raised international tensions in the region and beyond and stoked fears about a possible nuclear conflict between the two nations. In addition, North Korea also threatened Australia twice with nuclear strikes throughout the year for their allegiance with the United States. International relations lecturer and former government strategist Van Jackson said in the book On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War that it was the closest the world had come to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Tensions began to decline in 2018, with North Korea announcing the restoration of the Seoul–Pyongyang hotline and agreeing to hold talks with South Korea about participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Diplomatic activity flourished during the next few months, with the suspension of nuclear and missile tests by North Korea, and the 2018 inter-Korean summit in late April which culminated in the signing of the Panmunjom Declaration on 27 April 2018. An unprecedented bilateral summit between Kim and Trump was held in Singapore on 12 June 2018. It resulted in a joint declaration calling for the "full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula". A second summit between Kim and Trump took place in Hanoi, Vietnam on 27–28 February 2019. Though talks there broke down, a third summit took place in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on 30 June 2019, with Trump becoming the first sitting US president to visit North Korea. Follow-up talks later in 2019, however, broke down within hours. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Arab Spring saw mass unrest in the Arab world early in the decade:
  Government overthrown multiple times
  Government overthrown
  Civil war
  Protests and governmental changes
  Major protests
  Minor protests   Other protests and militant action outside the Arab world (from 2010s)
Image 2North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump meet during the first North Korea–United States summit in Singapore, June 2018 (from 2010s)
Image 3Nintendo's Wii (2010) was the best selling console of the seventh generation, selling 92.4 million units. (from 2010s in video games)
Image 4Young women in Hong Kong wearing layered street style with accessories and hairstyles influenced by Japanese gyaru and J-pop aesthetics, 2013. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 5PlayStation Vita (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 6Teenagers in Italy wearing graphic tees, plaid shirts, cutoff shorts, and studded accessories popular early in the decade, 2010. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 7K-pop star B.I sporting an undercut hairstyle, 2016 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 8Vancouver woman in early athleisure look with casual hoodie and white sneakers, 2014. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 9Nvidia Shield Portable (2013) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 10Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (from 2010s)
Image 11iPad (2010) and other tablet-PCs (from 2010s in video games)
Image 12Nickelback in May 2006 (from 2010s in music)
Image 13Samsung Galaxy Note (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 14A man wearing a leather Supreme snapback hat while taking a photograph in 2016 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 15Syrian and Iraqi refugees arriving in Greece. In the 2010s Europe had been severely affected by a huge migration from Africa and Middle East (from 2010s)
Image 16K-Pop singer Psy (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 17Pope Francis with U.S. President Barack Obama, 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 18In 2014 the One World Trade Center opened its doors in the Financial District of Manhattan, serving as a replacement to the original World Trade Center Twin Towers that were destroyed in 2001. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in 2011 (the same year Osama bin Laden was killed), the 9/11 Memorial was opened. (from 2010s)
Image 19Alan Jackson (from 2010s in music)
Image 20Women in Oregon wearing festival fashion including lace tops, maxi skirts, flower crowns, and stacked bracelets, 2013. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 21Man wearing shawl collar cardigan and hipster-inspired beard, 2011. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 22Teenagers in Yangon, Myanmar with trendy, dyed haircuts and slim fit, layered silhouettes inspired by East Asian and American trends, 2014. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 23American rapper Cardi B (from 2010s in music)
Image 24Taylor Swift was one of the most successful country artists of the 2010s. Her albums Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012) topped charts and opened with more than a million copies sold in their first weeks. (from 2010s in music)
Image 25Xperia Play (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 26Anwar al-Awlaki (from 2010s)
Image 27Lady Gaga was a fashion icon of the era (from 2010s)
Image 28Geforce GTX 1080 (2016) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 29Wii U (2012) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 30Tame Impala Australian Psychedelic Rock Band (from 2010s in music)
Image 31A laptop gaming PC from the 2010s (from 2010s in video games)
Image 32Nintendo Switch (from 2010s in video games)
Image 33Young men in London, 2010, wearing slim-cut jeans and layered T-shirts and polos, typical of middle-class streetwear influenced by Abercrombie & Fitch. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 34Nintendo 3DS (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 35Casting Crowns (from 2010s in music)
Image 36Two women with blunt bangs wearing vintage-inspired outfits with high-waisted jeans, a peter-pan collar sweater, and retro, 1950s inspired silhouettes in 2013. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 37Unscheduled change of governments in Euro countries (marked red) due to crisis (from 2010s in politics)
Image 38Malala Yousafzai (from 2010s)
Image 39Tom Brady with the Vince Lombardi Trophy following Super Bowl LI, 6 February 2017 (from 2010s in culture)
Image 40Adele during this decade established herself as the best selling British female artist of all time. Her 21 (2011) and 25 (2015) became two of the best selling albums of the 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 41An example of an e-girl's aesthetic (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 42On 10 April 2010 a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed in Russia with the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other passengers including many senior officials (from 2010s)
Image 43Orlando Bloom with Samurai bun, 2014 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 44Business casual (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 45Justin Timberlake performing on his 20/20 Experience Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina (from 2010s in music)
Image 46Grammy Award-winning Skrillex in 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 47British boy band One Direction with preppy-inspired outfits in 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 48Andrei Karlov (from 2010s)
Image 49Retail mannequin in 2018 dressed in 1970s-inspired plaid coat, button-front miniskirt, and cap. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 50Maroon 5 performing in Hong Kong in May 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 51Women to drive movement: Women's rights in Saudi Arabia made progress when women were allowed to drive in the kingdom in 2018. (from 2010s)
Image 52Three women wearing grunge and streetwear inspired outfits with elements such as distressed jeans, combat boots, tied flannel, and bold lipstick, 2015. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 53Somali man wearing waistcoat, tuque and polar fleece, illustrating East African diaspora fashion in 2010. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 54Woman wearing Neo-Victorian steampunk costume, including goggles and pith helmet, 2010. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 55P5+1 and Iranian negotiators meeting in Geneva for the interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme (2013) (from 2010s)
Image 56Jay Chou in 2013 (from 2010s in music)
Image 57Natalia Lafourcade (from 2010s in music)
Image 58In the 2010s, British girl group Little Mix was cited for helping the girl band renaissance in the UK during the late 2000s and into the early 2010s. They are also recognized as one of the most successful girl groups from that decade. (from 2010s in music)
Image 59Two women in England, the woman on the left wears a pompadour, while the woman on the right sports side-parted blonde hair with a boho-style headband, 2011. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 60Xi Jinping became China's leader for life in 2018. (from 2010s)
Image 61Mid 2010s Ugandan fashion (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 62J Balvin in 2018 (from 2010s in music)
Image 63Musician Harry Styles sporting a wings haircut in 2012. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 64Psy's song "Gangnam Style" broke the record for the most number of YouTube views during 2012 until 2017. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 65American rapper Kendrick Lamar (from 2010s in music)
Image 66Jamal Khashoggi (from 2010s)
Image 67Muse (from 2010s in music)
Image 68Woman in 2013 wearing galaxy-print top, leather moto jacket, statement necklace, and riding boots. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 6928 February 2014: following the removal of pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from office, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine (from 2010s)
Image 70Drake was declared the Artist of the Decade of the 2010s by Billboard. (from 2010s in music)
Image 71Geforce RTX 2080 (2018) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 72The British boy band One Direction in their Up All Night Tour, 2012 (from 2010s in music)
Image 73Ed Sheeran performing at the V Festival in 2014 (from 2010s in music)
Image 74Country pop music duo Dan + Shay (from 2010s in music)
Image 75Oculus Rift VR-display (2012), accessory (from 2010s in video games)
Image 76Ouya (2012) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 77Steam Controller (2015) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 78Google Stadia controller (2019) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 79Three girls with multicolored seapunk inspired hair (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 80A desktop gaming PC setup from 2010s (from 2010s in video games)
Image 81Burj Khalifa, tallest building when completed in 2010. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 82Good Charlotte performing in 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 83The 2014 Hong Kong protests (from 2010s)
Image 84American rapper Playboi Carti (from 2010s in music)
Image 85Foo Fighters performing live in 2007 (from 2010s in music)
Image 86Billy Ray Cyrus (from 2010s in music)
Image 87Two women wearing flared trousers, jeggings and oversized cardigans, 2011. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 88Various slim-fit jeans worn by men, showing the ubiquity of the silhouette in the early to mid-decade, 2013. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 89Woman in a red miniskirt and green cardigan crop, 2012. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 90Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and United States President Donald Trump in 2019. Both are emblematic of a wave of neo-nationalist and globalisation-weary conservative populism in the second half of the decade. (from 2010s)
Image 91The PlayStation 4 was released in November 2013 and is the best-selling gaming console of the decade (100+ million units sold worldwide as of August 2019^[update]). (from 2010s in culture)
Image 92American women with popular early 2010s hairstyles, including chunky highlights, flat-ironed layers, and deep side parts with crown volume, 2012. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 93The weighted capital city residential property price index, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, since 2003 (from 2010s)
Image 94Algerian protesters gather during the 2019 "Smile Revolution" (from 2010s)
Image 95Edward Snowden, former NSA employee who revealed a large number of global surveillance programs. (from 2010s)
Image 96American teenager with hi-top fade and distressed acid wash denim vest, 2010, showing early 2010s retro revival trends. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 97PlayStation 4 (2013) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 98Xbox One (2013) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 99PlayStation Move (2010), accessory for the PlayStation 3 (from 2010s in video games)
Image 100Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias recorded the track "Dirty Dancer", which was released as the second single of Iglesias's album Euphoria and became his seventh Hot Dance Club Play chart topper, tying him with Prince and Michael Jackson as the male with the most No. 1 dance singles. (from 2010s in music)
Image 101Brazilian girl wearing leg warmers, knitted sweater dress, and pastel hair, blending retro and alternative aesthetics into hipster style, 2011. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 102The war-torn ruins of Donetsk International Airport in late December 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 103A teenage American scene girl in 2011, wearing raccoon-striped hair extensions, heavy eyeliner, and colorful accessories typical of the style. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 104Teen girls in Brazil wearing casual trends including a lace detail top, black skater skirt, ballet flats, and a chunky owl pendant necklace in 2014. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 105Imagine Dragons were an instant success after the release of their debut album, Night Visions. (from 2010s in music)
Image 106Jürgen Mossack, co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, which shut down in light of revelations from the Panama Papers. (from 2010s)
Image 107Russian farmer family in 2010, showing a mix of contemporary clothing and traditional folk costume elements. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 108American rapper Tyga in 2013 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 109Devastation in Mosul's old city after recapture from ISIL in 2017 (from 2010s)
Image 110In 2013, China launched the ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, with over 150 countries announcing participation by the end of the decade. (from 2010s)
Image 111Kinect (2010), accessory for the Xbox 360 (from 2010s in video games)
Image 112A video game is used during a physical therapy session at the Naval Health Clinic in Charleston. (from 2010s in video games)
Image 113The Parade of Nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics (from 2010s in culture)
Image 114Protesters in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. (from 2010s)
Image 115Brazilian indie pop group Restart wearing "colorido" fashion, popular for most of the early 2010s in Brazil. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 116Robyn, the Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ (from 2010s in music)
Image 117A man with sleeve tattoos, beard and flannel shirt, mid 2010s (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 118Avocado salad, tomato and salsa on a toasted baguette. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 119Young woman in Italy with small pouf hairstyle wearing rhinestone-embellished tank top, low-rise skinny jeans, and logo buckle belt in 2010. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 120Selena Gomez gained global popularity in the 2010s, due in part to her hushed vocal style. (from 2010s in music)
Image 121Muammar al-Gaddafi (from 2010s)
Image 122Nintendo Switch (2017) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 123LeBron James, a sports icon of the decade, is the only NBA player to have won four championships with three separate franchises. (from 2010s)
Image 124A Community Programs team wearing casual attire in 2019 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 125American rapper and singer XXXTentacion (from 2010s in music)
Image 126Mumford & Sons were considered one of the most successful British bands of the early 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 127In red: the area controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) proto-state in December 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 128Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (from 2010s in music)
Image 129For over 15 months it was unclear what exactly happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 until at the end of July 2015 a few remnants of the plane swept to the shores of the island of Réunion (from 2010s)
Image 130Anti-Ghaddafi fighters celebrate during the Libyan Civil War. (from 2010s)
Image 131Burhanuddin Rabbani (from 2010s)
Image 132Sam Smith performing at Lollapalooza in 2015 (from 2010s in music)
Image 133In 2017 Gloria Trevi collaborated with fellow Mexican artist Alejandra Guzmán for the album Versus. (from 2010s in music)
Image 134Greece and Eurozone's rise of debt in the early years of the decade (from 2010s)
Image 135Vetusta Morla (from 2010s in music)
Image 136Rapper Macklemore sporting an undercut. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 137Canadian singer the Weeknd, 2018 (from 2010s in music)
Image 138TobyMac's 2012 album Eye on It became the third Christian album to ever debut at number 1 on the Billboard 200. (from 2010s in music)
Image 139Fall Out Boy (from 2010s in music)
Image 140Ariana Grande was one of the most successful singers of the decade. (from 2010s in music)
Image 141Japanese slim fitting three piece grey suit with window pane check, mid to late 2010s (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 142Barbadian artist Rihanna had the most songs top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 2010s (nine). (from 2010s in culture)
Image 143David Guetta (left) performing for BBC Radio 1 in 2007 (from 2010s in music)
Image 144Two teen girls in scene style, with dyed hair, bright graphic tops, and edgy jewelry typical of MySpace-era subcultures, 2010. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 145Concerns over economic inequality, greed and the influence of corporations on government led to the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 (from 2010s)
Image 146From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed; Crimea is annexed by Russia in 2014; ISIS/ISIL perpetrates terrorist attacks and captures territory in Syria and Iraq; climate change awareness and the Paris Agreement; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole in 2019; Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage in the United States in 2015, marking continuing progress for LGBTQ rights in developed countries; increasing use of digital media and rise of mobile devices; the UK votes to leave the EU in 2016 on a rising tide of populism throughout the decade. (from 2010s)
Image 147Ali Abdullah Saleh (from 2010s)
Image 148Typical late 2010s fashion of Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer in 2018 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 149Kesha performing on the American television program Today in 2012 (from 2010s in music)
Image 1503D printed model of a human liver (from 2010s)
Image 151BRICS, a supranational economic cooperative comprising five major emerging national economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—grew to represent over 3.1 billion people, or about 41 percent of the world population by 2015. (from 2010s)
Image 152Two women in Brazil wearing monochromatic evening outfits with sheer elements and streamlined silhouettes, 2014. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 153Osama bin Laden (from 2010s)
Image 154The Japanese group AKB48 is one of the most successful J-pop artists. (from 2010s in music)
Image 1552011 IIHF World Championship gold medal celebrations in Finland (from 2010s)

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Merkel in 2019

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only from former East Germany. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018.

Merkel was born in Hamburg in West Germany. Her family moved to East Germany when she was an infant. A member of the communist East German Free German Youth (FDJ), Merkel obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. She then entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as deputy spokeswoman for the first democratically elected government of East Germany, led by Lothar de Maizière. Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As the protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was appointed as Minister for Women and Youth in 1991, later becoming Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994. After the CDU lost the 1998 federal election, Merkel was elected general secretary of the party. She then became the party's first female leader, and the first female leader of the Opposition, two years later. (Full article...)

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... that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
... that the Taylor Swift masters controversy was described by Rolling Stone as one of the "most important moments" in music of the 2010s?
... that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s?
... that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989, "New Romantics" by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone?
... that Paul English, co-founder of Kayak, offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?

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