AN ENGLISH AUDIENCE......
The collective top 10 stories cover the big events of the Japanese earthquake, the Arab spring and the English riots, as well as four deaths and a wedding.
Here are the top 10 stories as chosen by you:
1. A series of massive earthquakes hit north-east Japan, unleashing a 10-metre tsunami
2. US forces kill the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, in a raid on a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan
3. The Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, quits and the army pledges to oversee a transition to democracy
4. President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali flees Tunisia, sparking copycat protests that become the Arab spring
5. Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed by rebels in the wake of a Nato air strike
6. Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey
7. The English riots hit their peak in London and spread to Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool
8. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dies, aged 56
9. The English riots begin on the back of a peaceful protest over the police shooting of Mark Duggan in London
10. The death is announced of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, one of the most condemned leaders of recent history
The news year was in fact so big that some events that would probably have made the cut in a "normal" year, didn't reach the top 10 – the crisis in Greece, the occupy protests, the Murdochs' appearance before a hearing on phone hacking, to name just a few
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