The Taj Mahal Palace hotel on the night of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008. Nearly 80 people were killed and an estimated 200 to 350 injured across the city that night. The Siege chronicles the events in the hotel. Pal Lillai/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Inspired by "Standing Man" Erdem Gunduz, protesters stand silently during an action at Istanbul's Taksim Square on June 23. Among the latest recommended reads from Tina Brown is a Foreign Affairs article on how Turkey's manipulates media coverage of political unrest. Burak Kara/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters wear prison-style orange jumpsuits, handcuffs and hoods during a 2012 demonstration urging the government to close down the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Astrid Riecken/Getty Images hide caption
Malala Yousafzai, targeted by the Taliban for her advocacy in favor of education for girls and young women in her native Pakistan, will be honored at the opening night of Tina Brown's Women in the World Summit. AP hide caption
Gen. Stanley McChrystal during a retirement ceremony in 2010. His comments in a Rolling Stone interview helped lead to his resignation. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images hide caption
Longtime CIA agent and counterintelligence agent Jeanne Vertefeuille, pictured at center, was instrumental in uncovering undercover agents, or moles, within the organization in the 1980s and '90s. Central Intelligence Agency hide caption
Five years after suing Newsweek, Lynn Povich became the magazine's first female senior editor. Povich writes that her then-colleague Oz Elliott (right) was one of the first to say, "God, weren't we awful?" Bernard Gotfryd/Courtesy of PublicAffairs Book hide caption
Veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin, shown here in Cairo, was killed in February while reporting in Homs, Syria. Ivor Prickett/AP hide caption
Queen Elizabeth II arrives for an event with The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, in London on Wednesday. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky walks into court in Moscow, Russia, May 24, 2011. A Moscow appeals court upheld the second conviction of Khodorkovsky, reducing his prison sentence by one year for a total of 13 years. He will be released in 2016. Misha Japaridze/AP hide caption
Andrew Breitbart, the late editor and founder of BigGovernment.com, is shown in this file photo speaking at a rally at the conservative Americans for Prosperity "Defending the American Dream Summit" in Washington on Nov. 5. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses supporters in Myitkyina on Feb. 24. Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Taken during a 1997 tour of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces, this photo shows a giant falcon made from Italian marble. Jassim Mohammed/AP hide caption
The city of Tangier, the setting for Tahar Ben Jelloun's 2006 novel, Leaving Tangier. Abbey Hesser/Flickr hide caption
In his article, Robert F. Worth detailed how rebels in Benghazi suffered under Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi before finally revolting earlier this year. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
British soldier, adventurer and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence Of Arabia, joined the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I and was instrumental in the conquest of Palestine. The photo was taken in 1918. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
According to Mark Halperin's article, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has plenty of reasons to stick around despite her party's loss in Congress. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption