* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

In January 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron announced at Pinewood film studios to businesses that the government has bold ambitions for the film industry.

Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.

* 1955 – Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Russian presidential election, 2012: Voters in Russia go to the polls for a presidential election with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claiming victory despite allegations of voter fraud.

Putin returned to the presidency following the 2012 presidential elections, and Medvedev was appointed Prime Minister.

He served as Acting Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister and Minister without portfolio from May to July 2012.

Prime Minister of Guyana Sam Hinds | Samuel Hinds at the local Unification Church headquarters, 2012

Putin previously served as President from 1999 to 2008 and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012.

* May 8 – Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia ( d. 2012 )

For example British Prime Minister Tony Blair held a Champagne reception to celebrate London winning the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

Tehran also has small number of third generation Iranian Sikh community that has a gurudwara visited by Indian Prime Minister in 2012.

The current mayor of Nantes is Patrick Rimbert, ( PS ), elected on 29 June 2012 to replace long-serving mayor Jean-Marc Ayrault, who had become Prime Minister of France.

In February 2012, Netanyahu visited Cyprus, the first visit of an Israeli Prime Minister in history.

Yes Prime Minister will be playing at the Trafalgar Studios, in Whitehall, from 6 June 2012.

On 29 March 2012, it was confirmed that a revived series of Yes, Prime Minister would be shown on Gold.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Greenwich became a Royal Borough on 3 February 2012, due in part to its historic links with the Royal Family, and to its UNESCO World Heritage Site status as home of the Prime Meridian.

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, on 3 February 2012 Greenwich became the fourth Royal Borough, an honour additional to its historic links with the Royal Family, and its status as home of the Prime Meridian and as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In September 2012, a year after the attack, a rebuilt Sony Distribution Centre was opened by David Cameron, the current Prime Minister.

On March 30, 2012 De Jong and several other prominent CDA members, including fellow former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers, former Ministers of Foreign Affairs Hans van den Broek, Pieter Kooijmans and Ben Bot.

On 26 July 2012, marked as the ` Kargil Vijay Diwas ', Nitin Gadkari, BJP President unveiled in Mumbai a wax statue of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was the Prime Minister at the time of Kargil war.

Presidents have invited other world leaders to travel with them on Air Force One at times, including Nixon inviting Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to travel with him to California from Washington, D. C. in June 1973, and George W. Bush traveled with Mexican President Vicente Fox to Toledo, Ohio on 6 September 2001 In March 2012, President Obama took the British Prime Minister David Cameron to a basketball game in Ohio aboard Air Force One.

In 2012, McLachlan wrote a letter on behalf of PETA to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, protesting that country's annual seal hunt.

The incumbent Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is Terry Mills, representing the Country Liberal Party since the 2012 general election.

Assange was granted diplomatic asylum on 16 August 2012, with Foreign Minister Patiño stating that Assange's fears of political persecution were " legitimate ".

On 20 June 2012, Samaras successfully formed a coalition with PASOK ( now lead by former Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos ) and DIMAR.

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

The Minister for Employment and Social Security, Fátima Báñez, said in June 19, 2012, that labor reform promoted by the Government has allowed reached in a short time, 32, 500 contracts for entrepreneurs, of which over 50 % has gone to young people.

On 18 July 2012, Syrian Defence Minister Dawoud Rajha, former defence minister Hasan Turkmani, and the president's brother-in-law General Assef Shawkat were killed by a bomb attack in Damascus.

The Bill was introduced in Rajya Sabha on 29 March 2012 by V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs.

The review's findings were adopted by the Minister for Local Government, the Honourable Jeanette Powell, and was declared in the Victorian Government Gazette on 1 March 2012.

The current Minister of Internal Affairs is General of Police Vladimir Kolokoltsev, who was the Moscow Police Commissioner between 2009 til 2012.

Currently, the seat of Prime Minister is occupied by Raja Pervez Ashraf of Pakistan Peoples Party, who was elected on 25 June 2012, after a vacancy occurred due to the disqualification of the then Prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani of Pakistan Peoples Party, by the Supreme Court of Pakistan over contempt of court on 19 June 2012.

Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani was the 16th Prime Minister of Pakistan and on 19 June 2012, the Supreme Court disqualified and ousted Gillani from holding the prime minister office from 26 April 2012.

Currently, the seat of Prime Minister is occupied by Raja Pervez Ashraf of Pakistan Peoples Party, who was elected on 22 June 2012, after a vacancy occurred due to the disqualification of the then Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani of Pakistan Peoples Party, by the Supreme Court of Pakistan over contempt of court on 19 June 2012.

Recently, after proceeding the notice of contempt against the Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani who forcefully refusing to direct a letter to Swiss authorities over President's hidden assets in Swiss Banks, Chaudry retroactively discharged and ousted Gillani and his government on April 26, 2012.

On 19 June 2012, Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualified Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani on charges of not obeying court orders and for not reopening the graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari.

Interview at El Centro de la Raza, September 4, 2012.

In his critique of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Lomborg stated: " Global warming is by no means our main environmental threat.

In June 2012 the Cypriot finance minister Vassos Shiarly stated that the European Central Bank, European commission and IMF officials are to carry out an in-depth investigation into Cyprus ' economy and banking sector to assess the level of funding it requires.

On February 11, 2012, after the sudden death of Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton stated, " Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston.

" In a 8 March 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Nesmith stated " For me, David was The Monkees.

As the 2012 Northern Hemisphere Summer started to draw to a close, NOAA stated that El Niño conditions are likely to develop in August or September.

Echo Bridge Entertainment has stated it plans to release the film on both formats by December 4, 2012.

The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.

Though, he stated in 2012, that his own personal contribution is mostly merging code written by others, with little programming.

However, a report from the French AFP news agency stated that " The Turkish judicial authorities still haven't explained exactly which legal resources he had access to ", and former minister of Justice Hikmet Sami Türk, in government at the time of Ağca's extradition, claimed that, from a legal viewpoint, his liberation was a " serious mistake " at best, and that he should have not been freed before 2012.

In his April 2012 appearance before the Leveson Inquiry Rupert Murdoch stated that the " notorious " headline was both " tasteless and wrong " and led to the editor Kelvin MacKenzie receiving a reprimand.

In a position paper released May 17, 2012, the Pan American Health Organization ( PAHO ) stated that services that purport to " cure " people with a non-heterosexual sexual orientation lack medical justification and represent a serious threat to the health and well-being of affected people, and noted that there is a professional consensus that homosexuality is a natural variation of human sexuality and cannot be regarded as a pathological condition.

However at Comic-Con International 2012, Raimi stated that he was no longer involved in the project, saying “ Actually, they don ’ t have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job, they had to move on to another director.

In April 2012, the Moscow authorities stated that they would be renovating the " Iron Felix " monument in full and put the statue on a list of monuments to be renovated, as well as officially designated it an object of cultural heritage.

In 2012, physicist Harold White and collaborators announced that modifying the geometry of exotic matter could reduce the mass-energy requirements for a macroscopic space ship from the equivalent of the planet Jupiter to around one metric tonne, and stated their intent to perform small-scale experiments in constructing warp fields.

In October 2010, HP stated that they would continue to support Tru64 UNIX until 31 December 2012.

In April 2012 the Council of Europe published a report which stated it would be “ difficult to imagine ” that Blatter would have been unaware of “ significant sums ” paid to unnamed FIFA officials by ISSM / ISL in connection with lucrative contracts for World Cup television rights and the subsequent bankruptcy and collapse of ISL in 2001.

Michael Ondaatje stated in an interview on BBC Radio 4 broadcast 9 August 2012, that most people think this comment is attributed to Kip, but it was in fact Caravaggio.

43 % of the adult population, and 3 % of children ( 3 to 17 years old ), stated in 2012 that they speak Alsatian.

Incubus has hinted that they will go on hiatus following the end of the 2012 Honda Civic Tour, but their manager has stated that Incubus will only take a break after the tour, not a hiatus.

The Reasons for Judgment, published on 23 February 2012, stated that there is a serious problem with the finding made and endorsed by the trial judge and the Court of Appeal respectively that Lo knew that there had been champerty involved.

During a debate on the legality on the 11 January 2012, UK Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes Mark Lancaster, Conservative, stated importation of Khat into the UK stands at 10 tonnes every week.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

On March 16, 2011, Keillor stated in an interview with the AARP that he would most likely retire from the show by the time he turns 70, which will occur in August 2012.