Toppled Leaders

RESIGNED

SCANDAL

SEX

Italian PM Silvio “Bunga Bunga” Berlusconi bowed out after Parliament passed a measure he opposed

Facing sexual-assault allegations, IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned in May. Later, prosecutors dropped the charges

Congressman Anthony Weiner stepped down in June after exchanging sexually explicit messages with women

OVER IT

Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld left after a decade in which circulation grew 40%. She is planning a new magazine

PUSHED OUT

BY THE MASSES

Protests forced Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power after 30 years. He now faces trial

Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia in January following protests in his country

BY POLITICS

In August, Elizabeth Warren left the Obama Administration after he nominated someone else to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

BY THEIR OWN STUPIDITY

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt quit after a drunk-driving arrest in December

Japanese Minister of Trade and Industry Yoshio Hachiro stepped down after making tasteless jokes about the Fukushima nuclear disaster

KILLED

In Yemen, Hellfire missiles from a U.S. drone killed al-Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric educated in Colorado

The U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 6 took out Osama bin Laden during a risky May mission

In October, rebels murdered longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirt

HACKING

James Murdoch, Rupert’s son, left the board of News Group Newspapers in September amid the company’s privacy-invasion lawsuits

News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks walked away from the company with a hefty severance package in July

UNDERQUALIFIED

Cathleen Black didn’t segue well from publishing exec to New York City schools chancellor. She was replaced after 95 days

FIRED

UNFIT

WORDS

In March, Christian Dior dismissed its creative director, John Galliano, after he made anti-Semitic remarks

ACTION

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was let go after it was alleged he failed to report to police a former assistant’s sexual abuse of boys

Syracuse University fired basketball coach Bernie Fine amid allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct

STILL OUT THERE

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has persevered despite protests

Arrested in April, former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is set to stand trial for crimes against humanity

Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh is holding on to power (though he has promised to step down)

Syrian President Bashar Assad has survived in part by killing at least 4,000 of his people