Earthquakes battered Haiti, Japan and New Zealand, the Iceland ash cloud disrupted flights across Europe, summer riots spread through the UK ignited by trouble in North London and Amy Winehouse died. David Cameron and Nick Clegg pledged a new era of a Lib-Con coalition in a rose garden and Chile inspired the world with the rescue of 33 miners trapped for more than two months underground.
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