Foreign Policy has been publishing the list of failed states since 2005. You can see how each country received its ranking, and where it has placed in the past years. Somalia has been No. 1 for the past three years. 177 countries were analyzed from an extensive variety of sources.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her speech at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., addressed the sate of global Internet freedom. She touched on subjects such as data networks enhancing the effectiveness of disaster relief efforts, using the Web to make political voices heard in oppressive regimes, and even the ways the freedom of expression guaranteed online can be abused by terrorists and hate groups.