By 2012, despite natural gas prices at a ten-year low and a higher Canadian dollar, oil prices had recovered enough to restart economic growth.

Finnish Defence Forces reported on 3 September 2012 that the United States has not delivered any of the AMRAAM anti-aircraft missiles they had ordered due to a mysterious engine malfunction in cold weather that the manufacturer, Raytheon, has not been able to determine the fault of.

in 2012, the playoffs were expanded again so that two wild card teams face off in a one game wild card round to determine which team advances to the division series, with the playoffs then continuing as it had before 2012 ( though with the possibilty of a fifth seed being in the playoffs and a fourth seed being out ) after the end of the wild card round.

The two airmen had been NCOICs in medical units deployed to the War in Afghanistan and received the medals in March 2012.

In February 2012 an MI5 file on Chaplin was opened to the public which revealed that the FBI had contacted the British secret service to provide them with information which would enable them to ban Chaplin from the US.

In July 2012 this faction announced it had a new leadership after expelling members who had been working against the organisation.

As of 1 September 2012, 176 States had adhered to the Convention with Bahrain being the latest.

The late hit also lead to a fight breaking out between players on both teams. In 2012 the game also had multiple fights.

By 1993, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had made the program available nationwide ; by 2012, CERT programs were offered in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The House of Lords of the UK parliament had, for example through the 1990s, over 700 members with a hereditary right to being a lawgiver ; this practice was reformed in 2004, still some 92 parliamentary seats are set aside for hereditary peers as of 2012.

In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

However, in an in-person interview held at the Apple Store Soho on August 16, 2012, Cronenberg commented that the financing for the " Eastern Promises " sequel had fallen through about two weeks earlier.

In Maclean's 2012 common law school rankings, the Schulich School of Law had placed 6th in Canada.

And in 2012, researchers finally succeeded in correctly identifying the path each particle had taken without any adverse effects at all on the interference pattern generated by the particles.

In September 2012, Saban Brands announced it had acquired the Digimon franchise and MarVista Entertainment will distribute the series outside of Asia.

The overall trade balance for August 2012 was a surplus of almost 390 million dollars for the first six months of 2012, a huge figure compared with that of 2007, which reached only $ 5. 7 million ; the surplus had risen by about 425 million compared to 2006.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

The city had 217, 192 inhabitants ( February 2012 ) and 261, 082 if adjacent Veldhoven is included, making it the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands and the largest of North Brabant.

12, 000 sets of the 2010 edition were printed, of which 8, 000 had been sold as of 2012.

By late April 2012, the remaining copies of the 2010 edition had sold out at Britannica's online store.

As of February 2012, NASA's Kepler mission had identified 2, 321 unconfirmed planetary candidates associated with 1, 790 host stars, based on the first sixteen months of data from the space-based telescope.

Talking to India Today on March 18 of 2012 — nearly 41 years of disintegration of East Pakistan, Kissinger reminisced and quoted that: " India and the former Soviet Union had made a near-alliance around this time .....

Frogs range in size from the goliath frog ( Conraua goliath ) of West Africa to the long Paedophryne amauensis, first described in Papua New Guinea in 2012.

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

The first official celebration will take place in Wellington in August 2012, with the planting of pohutukawa and Norfolk pines along Thorndon Esplanade.

In exchange, the Falcons gave up their first -, second-and fourth-round draft picks in 2011, and their first and fourth draft picks in 2012.

The first production cars should come in 2012.

The first four volumes of the complete English edition appear in May 2012.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

The first private university of Bursa is Bursa Orhangazi University, which is going to start its first education in 2012 – 2013 academic year.

However, after a 14-year stretch of consecutive losing seasons, the Orioles posted a winning record in 2012 and qualified for the postseason for the first time since 1997.

The Orioles finished the first half of the 2012 season with a winning record for only the second time since 1998, with a record of 45-40 before the All-Star break.

On September 18, 2012, Berkeley became what is thought to be the first city in the U. S. to officially proclaim a day recognizing bisexuals September 23, which is known as Celebrate Bisexuality Day.

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

Caltech was ranked first in the 2011 – 2012 Times Higher Education worldwide rankings of universities as well as ranking first in physical science and engineering.

The Presidency of the Council is not a single post, but is held by a member state's government ( Denmark for the first half of 2012 ).

In the Clean Development Mechanism, only afforestation and reforestation are eligible to produce certified emission reductions ( CERs ) in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ( 2008 – 2012 ).

The first programme to air on the channel was the teatime game show Countdown, at 16: 45 produced by Yorkshire Television ; it is still running as of 2012.

On January 29, 2012, for the first time since the team's inception, the Carolina Panthers unveiled a new refined logo and logotype.

Etisalat became the first company to launch 3G services in 2012 followed MTN and Roshan.

In 2009 – 10, the club won their first " Double " and in 2012 became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League.