2010 by the numbers
Here's a look at some of the numbers behind 2010:
27,000: The number of suspected drug gang members arrested in Mexico
12,000: The number of people murdered in Mexico as part of the country's drug war.
57: The number of reporters killed around the world.
708: The number of coalition forces killed in Afghanistan.
1,550: The number of strategic nuclear warheads the U.S. and Russia will be allowed to maintain under the terms of the New START treaty.
985: The estimated number of people killed by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan in 2010.
222,000,000,000: The cost, in U.S. dollars, of economic losses from both man-made and natural disasters.
260,000: The approximate number of people killed by severe catastrophes.