Lund was ranked 71st in the world in the 2012 QS World University Rankings and the University Ranking by Academic Performance Research Laboratory ranked Lund 62nd in the world in 2011.

In 2012, it was ranked 39th in the world ; 3rd in Australia, behind Australian National University ( 24th ) and the University of Melbourne ( 36th ) in the 2012 QS World University Rankings.

The UAB is considered to be the best University in Spain by the 2012 QS World University Rankings, which ranked the university 176th overall in the world.

Ranked 47th globally by QS World University Rankings in 2012, a jump of 11 places from its 2011 ranking, NTU is the fastest-rising university in the QS global top 50, and 4th in the world among young elite universities, according to QS Top 50 Under 50.

In 2012, it was the fastest-rising university in the top 50 of the 2012 QS World University Rankings as it moved up 11 places from its 2011 ranking, having previously risen 16 places in 2010.

In 2012, the university was ranked 4th in the world among universities below the age of 50 in the QS Top 50 Under 50 ranking.

On Tuesday 29 May, Guardian published the ‘ QS top 50 universities under 50 ’ table for 2012.

The rankings are based on the same criteria as for the QS World University Rankings 2011 / 2012 – size, subject range and research intensity – but with the fourth aspect, age, restricted to those less than 50 years old.

It was ranked # 227 in the QS World University Rankings for 2012.

In 2012 the QS World University Rankings placed ETH Zurich at 13th overall in the world, and 1st in mainland Europe, while only four UK universities performed better than it in Europe.

QS World University Rankings rank WSU 354th in 2011 / 2012 Edition.

* Internationally, Swinburne is named amongst the top 500 universities in the world by the prestigious Academic Rankings of World Universities 2011, top 450 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011 and top 3 % by the QS World University Rankings 2011 .. Swinburne is ranked 301-400 in the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities and granted third place in Victoria, Australia after University of Melbourne and Monash University.

According to QS World University Rankings 2011 / 2012, it was at 22nd in the world and the best in Hong Kong as well as Asia ..

HKUST has consistently been ranked 1st in Asia according to both the 2011 and 2012 QS Asian University Rankings.

The QS World University Rankings ( 2012 / 13 ) ranked it as 33rd in the world, 4th in Asia and 2nd in Hong Kong ( after The University of Hong Kong ).

The university is ranked 23rd by QS Top 50 Under 50 and 271st in the 2012 QS World University Rankings.

HKBU comes 48th in QS Asian University Rankings 2012.

In 2012, ANU was ranked 1st and 2nd among Australian universities, and 24th and 38th among the world's universities by the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, respectively.

In 2012, NUS was ranked 25th in the world and 2nd in Asia by the QS World University Rankings.

In 2012, QS World University Rankings placed Sheffield as the 66th university worldwide.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

* Countries of the World-29 years of CIA World Fact Books ( 1982 – 2012 )

In the latest ( 2011 / 2012 ) Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011 / 2012 Chalmers ranked between 226 and 250 of all global universities.

Crane shotCrane camera in action at Götaplatsen, Göteborg, Sweden, during MTV World Stage 2012.

In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In 2012, the Center for World University Rankings ranked Caltech fifth in the world and fourth nationally in its CWUR World University Rankings.

U. S. News & World Report ranked Caltech as the 5th best university in the United States in their 2012 national college rankings, together with MIT, Stanford University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

Leading up to the Conference of the Parties ( COP 11 ) meeting on biodiversity in Hyderabad, India 2012, preparations for a World Wide Views on Biodiversity has begun, involving old and new partners and building on the experiences from the World Wide Views on Global Warming.

Image: G8 Summit working session on global and economic issues May 19, 2012. jpg | World leaders at the 2012 G8 Summit.

As of April 2012, the Association Croquet World Champion is Reg Bamford of South Africa.

Today, Chicago is listed as an alpha + global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world in the 2012 Global Cities Index.

In 2012, Dartmouth was ranked tenth among undergraduate programs at national universities by U. S. News & World Report.

Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U. S. News & World Report when in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities.

According to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 201-300 in the world and 8-17th in Canada.

* 1901 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( d. 2012 )

In 2012, September 15, 964 Ferrari cars ( worth over $ 162million ) attended the Ferrari Driving Days event at Silverstone Circuit and paraded round the Silverstone Circuit and set the World Record.

* 2012 – Florence Green, British, last surviving veteran of World War I ( b. 1901 )

Hakka cuisine, or Kejia cuisine, is the cooking style of the Hakka people, who originated in the southeastern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but may also be found in other parts of China and in countries with significant overseas Chinese communities .< ref > Linda Lau Anusasananan, < i > The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World </ i > ( University of California Press, 2012 )</ ref > There are numerous restaurants in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore serving Hakka cuisine.

At the December, 2012, World Conference on International Telecommunications, ITU secretary-general Hamadoun Touré will convene member-state delegations in Dubai to renegotiate the ITR treaty.

The deployment of IPv6 is accelerating, with a World IPv6 Launch having taken place on 6 June 2012, in which major internet service providers, especially in countries that had been lagging in IPv6 adoption, deployed IPv6 addresses to portions of their users.