Nor does greater policing: stringent enforcement campaigns in France and Spain have successfully cut speeds, but Britain has seen a 20% drop in the number of traffic cops in the past decade, reckons Edmund King of the AA, a motoring lobby.

ECONOMIST: Drivers are slowing down to save money

Taking the title, Badshah-e-Taliban, King of the Taliban, he was a two-decade-long headache for the British, who decried him as an irredeemable fanatic, but were not above trying to buy him.

ECONOMIST: Waziristan

With an impressive 20 percent annualized return, silver is king of the commodity space over the past decade with gold (19 percent annualized) and copper (18 percent annualized) following closely behind.

FORBES: Commodities Were Market Beaters Last Decade, Look Good Again

The company's boxy, no-frills 800-cc model has been king of the road for more than a decade - even though there have been precious few changes in its interior, exterior or the engine.

CNN: INDIA'S CAR WARS

Throughout the 1990s and into the early part of this decade, the minivan was the unquestioned king of family cars.

FORBES: How Crossovers Pushed Minivans Out of The Driveway

Buckingham Palace said the 86-year-old queen had experienced symptoms of gastroenteritis and was being examined at London's King Edward VII Hospital the first time in a decade that Elizabeth has been hospitalized.

NPR: UK: Queen Hospitalized Over Stomach Illness