Year-end Lists | featured news

The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and a record-breaking skydiver.

The Company Man, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit; $13.99). This novel, set in 1919 in a vast industrial metropolis in the Pacific Northwest, is a genuine original, something like an episode of "The X-Files" written by...

Rebecca Black's "Friday," a music video we love to hate, tops that list despite temporarily disappearing from YouTube at one point. She's followed by a dog who can't stop thinking about food, a catchy tune by the boys of Lonely Island (with Michael Bolton), some babbling babies, and other gems.

Albums by Radiohead, Lady Gaga and Wild Flag were among those near the top of Rolling Stone's year-end list of the 50 Best Albums of 2011. Which records beat them out? Find out by reading our complete list.

The editors at CardRatings.com pick their favorite cash-back and low-interest cards

If you've held off on buying a fancy new phone this year, you should cop one of these.

Here's what made us want to hide the kids, hide the wife ... and hide our husbands, too, in 2010.