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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 a 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 2011 Canadian federal election was held on May 2, 2011, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 41st Canadian Parliament.

The writs of election for the 2011 election were issued by Governor General David Johnston on March 26. Prime Minister Stephen Harper advised the Governor General to dissolve parliament after the House of Commons passed a motion of non-confidence against the government, finding it to be in contempt of Parliament. A few days before, the three opposition parties had rejected the minority government's proposed budget. (Full article...)

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Image 1Pope Francis with U.S. President Barack Obama, 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 2Casting Crowns (from 2010s in music)
Image 3Braided hair is popular in Europe, especially in France, Ukraine and Russia. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 4Business casual (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 5Brazilian hipster girl wearing leg warmers and knitted sweater dress, also sporting vibrant hair (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 6Avocado salad, tomato and salsa on a toasted baguette. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 7Various slim-fit jeans worn by men (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 8Women in casuals relaxing at a park in USA, 2010 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 9Ombre hair was popular during the decade. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 1028 February 2014: following the removal of pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from office, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine (from 2010s)
Image 11Jay Chou in 2013 (from 2010s in music)
Image 12P5+1 and Iranian negotiators meeting in Geneva for the interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme (2013) (from 2010s)
Image 13Woman wearing colored skinny jeans (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 14Unscheduled change of governments in Euro countries (marked red) due to crisis (from 2010s in politics)
Image 15Man wearing hypebeast fashion. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 16David Beckham sporting an undercut hairstyle, 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 17Woman wearing makeup popular in the mid-2010s. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 18A man and a delivery robot waiting at a pedestrian crossing in Redwood City, California, United States. E-commerce spurred advancements in drone delivery and transformed parts of the services and retail sectors (from 2010s)
Image 19Oculus Rift VR-display (2012), accessory (from 2010s in video games)
Image 20American man wearing a slim-fitting flannel shirt, a beard, and an undercut, 2019. Sleeve tattoos can be seen. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 21Muse (from 2010s in music)
Image 22Actress Jennifer Lawrence sporting a loosened wavy hairstyle, 2011 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 23The weighted capital city residential property price index, produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, since 2003 (from 2010s)
Image 24The 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 25Tom Brady with the Vince Lombardi Trophy following Super Bowl LI, 6 February 2017 (from 2010s in culture)
Image 26John Mayer (from 2010s in music)
Image 27Kesha performing on the American television program Today in 2012 (from 2010s in music)
Image 28The Japanese group AKB48 is one of the most successful J-pop artists. (from 2010s in music)
Image 29Greece and Eurozone's rise of debt in the early years of the decade (from 2010s)
Image 30Xperia Play (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 31Country pop music duo Dan + Shay (from 2010s in music)
Image 32Woman wearing teal blazer and dress (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 33Edward Snowden, former NSA employee who revealed a large number of global surveillance programs. (from 2010s)
Image 34A Community Programs team wearing casual attire in 2019 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 35The 2014 Hong Kong protests (from 2010s)
Image 36American man wearing a boater hat in 2017 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 37Syrian 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 38Drake was declared the Artist of the Decade of the 2010s by Billboard. (from 2010s in music)
Image 39Edwardian-style Windowpane tweed suit worn in England in the early 2010s (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 40Nintendo's Wii (2010) was the best selling console of the seventh generation, selling 92.4 million units. (from 2010s in video games)
Image 41Devastation in Mosul's old city after recapture from ISIL in 2017 (from 2010s)
Image 42PlayStation 4 (2013) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 43Nintendo 3DS (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 44In the 2010s, British girl group Little Mix was cited for helping the girl band renaissance in the UK during the late 00s and into the early 10s. They are also recognized as one of the most successful girl groups from that decade. (from 2010s in music)
Image 45Women's 1970s inspired outfit from 2018 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 46In red: the area controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) proto-state in December 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 47Girl in microskirt, Lisbon, 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 48Maroon 5 performing live in 2016 (from 2010s in music)
Image 49On 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 50Somali man wearing waistcoat, tuque and polar fleece (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 51North 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 52Xbox One (2013) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 53American rapper Tyga in 2013 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 54Scene kid with short hardcore punk-inspired hair (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 55Pippa Middleton's form-fitting dress caused a sensation at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 56Man wearing shawl collar cardigan and hipster-inspired beard (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 57Example of Lumbersexual fashion, 2016 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 58Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias recorded a remix version of the album track "Dirty Dancer" was released as the fourth English single and became his ninth Hot Dance Club Play chart topper, tying with Prince and Michael Jackson as the male with the most No. 1 dance singles. (from 2010s in music)
Image 59BRICS, 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 60A man wearing a leather Supreme snapback hat while taking a photograph in 2016 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 61Russian farmer family in 2010 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 62Athleisure fashion, 2017 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 63A woman wearing a jean jacket in 2015 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 64Natalia Lafourcade (from 2010s in music)
Image 65American rapper and singer XXXTentacion (from 2010s in music)
Image 66Rapper Macklemore sporting an undercut. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 67Jürgen Mossack, co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, which shut down in light of revelations from the Panama Papers. (from 2010s)
Image 68Women 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 69A young woman in a white crop top, 2015 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 70David Guetta (left) performing for BBC Radio 1 in 2007 (from 2010s in music)
Image 71The British boy band One Direction in their Up All Night Tour, 2012 (from 2010s in music)
Image 72Indian children, 2015 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 73PlayStation Vita (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 74Gyaru fashion in Japan, 2011 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 75Typical late 2010s fashion of Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer in 2018 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 76For 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 77Brazilian 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 78Ed Sheeran, a photograph from a concert at the V Festival held in 2014 (from 2010s in music)
Image 79Billy Ray Cyrus (from 2010s in music)
Image 80Influencer Kylie Jenner wearing make-up popular in the latter part of the decade. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 81Orlando Bloom with Samurai bun, 2014 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 82Google Stadia controller (2019) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 83Sam Smith, a photograph from the Lollapalooza concert held in 2015 (from 2010s in music)
Image 84Muammar al-Gaddafi (from 2010s)
Image 85TobyMac'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 86Woman in a red miniskirt and green cardigan crop, 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 87Nvidia Shield Portable (2013) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 88Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (from 2010s)
Image 89Jamal Khashoggi (from 2010s)
Image 90Steam Controller (2015) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 91A video game is used during a physical therapy session at the Naval Health Clinic in Charleston. (from 2010s in video games)
Image 92Protesters in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. (from 2010s)
Image 932011 IIHF World Championship gold medal celebrations in Finland (from 2010s)
Image 94Nickelback in May 2006 (from 2010s in music)
Image 95Polish youth attending a rock music festival, 2011 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 96Alan Jackson (from 2010s in music)
Image 97Samsung Galaxy Note (2011) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 98Foo Fighters performing live in 2007 (from 2010s in music)
Image 99American rapper Playboi Carti (from 2010s in music)
Image 100American rapper Kendrick Lamar (from 2010s in music)
Image 101Justin Timberlake performing on his 20/20 Experience Tour in Charlotte, North Carolina (from 2010s in music)
Image 102Tame Impala Australian Psychedelic Rock Band (from 2010s in music)
Image 103Streetwear fashion in 2017. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 104An example of an e-girl's aesthetic (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 105K-Pop singer Psy (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 106German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, 2011 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 107English-Irish boy band One Direction with preppy-inspired outfits in 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 108President Barack Obama and family in 2013 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 109PlayStation Move (2010), accessory for the PlayStation 3 (from 2010s in video games)
Image 110Anwar al-Awlaki (from 2010s)
Image 111Nintendo Switch (2017) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 112Indian actress Sameera Reddy wearing contrasting black and white top (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 113Geforce RTX 2080 (2018) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 114Maroon 5 performing in Hong Kong in May 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 115A laptop gaming PC from the 2010s (from 2010s in video games)
Image 116Fall Out Boy (from 2010s in music)
Image 117J Balvin in 2018 (from 2010s in music)
Image 118Three girls with multicolored seapunk inspired hair (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 119Osama bin Laden (from 2010s)
Image 120iPad (2010) and other tablet-PCs (from 2010s in video games)
Image 121A man with sleeve tattoos, beard and flannel shirt, mid 2010s (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 122Ouya (2012) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 123Robyn, the Swedish singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ. (from 2010s in music)
Image 124Girl wearing steampunk costume, including goggles and pith helmet (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 125Concerns 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 126Psy's song "Gangnam Style" broke the record for the most number of YouTube views during 2012 until 2017. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 127Robe and kaftan for slightly overweight gentleman in Götgatan of Stockholm, 2018 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 128Canadian singer The Weeknd, 2018 (from 2010s in music)
Image 129An example of Smart Casual Dress (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 130Woman wearing bikini top and jeans in USA, 2010. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 131Japanese slim fitting three piece grey suit with window pane check, mid to late 2010s (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 132Man wearing fedora hat, 2017 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 133LeBron James, a sports icon of the decade, is the only NBA player to have won four championships with three separate franchises. (from 2010s)
Image 134Sports anchor wearing little black dress and knee-high boots, Mexico, 2010 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 135Anti-Ghaddafi fighters celebrate during the Libyan Civil War. (from 2010s)
Image 136In 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 137Kim Kardashian wearing an off-the-shoulder top in 2017. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 138Norwegian man in slim fitting velvet jacket, 2019 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 139Vetusta Morla (from 2010s in music)
Image 140Wii U (2012) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 141Good Charlotte performing in 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 142Ed Hardy clothes popular among men, women and children from 2008 to 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 143In 2017 Gloria Trevi collaborated with fellow Mexican artist Alejandra Guzmán for the album Versus. (from 2010s in music)
Image 144Jing Ulrich, a prominent global leader in finance, wearing brightly colored 1980s-inspired dress, 2012 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 145Algerian protesters gather during the 2019 "Smile Revolution" (from 2010s)
Image 146The war-torn ruins of Donetsk International Airport in late December 2014 (from 2010s)
Image 147Brazilian indie pop group Restart wearing "colorido" fashion, popular for most of the early 2010s in Brazil (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 148Boat shoes associated with the preppy look (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 149South African model Candice Swanepoel wearing pantywaist top and bodycon skirt, 2010 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 150A man wearing pullover hoodie and a snapback cap in 2015 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 151The 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 152Egyptian man wearing a sports shirt and a hat, 2019 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 153Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (from 2010s in music)
Image 154Bowler hat worn by an increasing number of British professionals (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 155Men's polo shirts in more muted colors, 2015 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 156The Parade of Nations at the 2012 Summer Olympics (from 2010s in culture)
Image 157German woman wearing hooded fur coat (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 1583D printed model of a human liver (from 2010s)
Image 159Selena Gomez gained global popularity in the 2010s, due in part to her hushed vocal style. (from 2010s in music)
Image 160Women wearing contemporary outfits at a 2015 fashion show (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 161A desktop gaming PC setup from 2010s (from 2010s in video games)
Image 162Two women wearing flared trousers, jeggings and oversized cardigans (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 163Tool's live performances in 2006 included an elaborate light show using 10,000 Days artwork by painter Alex Grey as a backdrop. (from 2010s in music)
Image 164From 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 165Polish women wearing boho- or hippie-inspired dresses, floral prints and peasant blouses, 2014 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 166Grammy Award-winning Skrillex in 2011 (from 2010s in music)
Image 167Nintendo Switch (from 2010s in video games)
Image 168Musician Harry Styles sporting a wings haircut in 2012. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 169The A-line dress made a comeback in 2013. Hemlines also became shorter than they were in the early 2010s. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 170Burj Khalifa, tallest building when completed in 2010. (from 2010s in culture)
Image 171Lady Gaga was a fashion icon of the era (from 2010s)
Image 172Xi Jinping became China's leader for life in 2018. (from 2010s)
Image 173A woman in bra-shaped top and mini-shorts in Germany, 2013 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 174Mexican student wearing a casual outfit: a jacket, black jeans and loafers, 2017 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 175Malala Yousafzai (from 2010s)
Image 176Adele 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 177Woman wearing popular athleisure trends. (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 178Geforce GTX 1080 (2016) (from 2010s in video games)
Image 179Mid 2010s Ugandan fashion (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 180Tourist couple wearing casual clothes in Georgia (U.S), 2015 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 181American teenager with hi-top fade and distressed acid wash denim vest (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 182Mumford & Sons were considered one of the most successful British bands of the early 2010s. (from 2010s in music)
Image 183Imagine Dragons were an instant success after the release of their debut album, Night Visions. (from 2010s in music)
Image 184Andrei Karlov (from 2010s)
Image 185Portuguese hipster, 2014 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 186In 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 187Kinect (2010), accessory for the Xbox 360 (from 2010s in video games)
Image 188K-pop star B.I sporting an undercut hairstyle, 2016 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 189Chinese women in Ireland, 2016 (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 190Peruvian hats for the American export market (from 2010s in fashion)
Image 191Taylor 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 192Barbadian artist Rihanna had the most songs top the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 2010s (nine). (from 2010s in culture)

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Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the member of parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister outside the Indian National Congress.

Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight. At the age of 18, he was married to Jashodaben Modi, whom he abandoned soon after, only publicly acknowledging her four decades later when legally required to do so. Modi became a full-time worker for the RSS in Gujarat in 1971. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he rose through the party hierarchy, becoming general secretary in 1998. In 2001, Modi was appointed chief minister of Gujarat and elected to the legislative assembly soon after. His administration is considered complicit in the 2002 Gujarat riots, and has been criticised for its management of the crisis. According to official records, a little over 1,000 people were killed, three-quarters of whom were Muslim; independent sources estimated 2,000 deaths, mostly Muslim. A Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India in 2012 found no evidence to initiate prosecution proceedings against him. While his policies as chief minister were credited for encouraging economic growth, his administration was criticised for failing to significantly improve health, poverty and education indices in the state. (Full article...)

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