Top 10 Insider News Features of 2022

Edith HonanJan 5, 2023, 03:14 IST

Left, from top: Fred Ramos; Reuters; Getty Images; Rachel Mendelson. Right, from top: Hokyoung Kim; Alan Chin

A near-death fall from North America's highest peak. Three weeks in Ukraine as a volunteer soldier. The early life of Tucker Carlson.

These are the Top Ten most-read features of 2022 from Insider's Global News Correspondents — a team of freelance writers and photographers — and our Insider News journalists. Happy reading!

The 'world's coolest dictator' rounded up 60,000 people in a supposed crackdown on MS-13. A shrimp farming community is fighting back.

Residents of the Bajo Lempa meet weekly at a retreat center to discuss the mass arrests.Fred Ramos for Insider

The not-quite-redemption of South Africa's infamous ultra-marathon cheats

Sergio Motsoeneng races in the 1999 Comrades Marathon,Gail Irwin/Reuters

The night the Lord of the Skies got away

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On board the mobile command that's keeping Ukraine's trains running

Oleksandr Kamyshin (left), CEO of Ukrainian Railways, with members of his management team.Alan Chin for Insider

Tucker Carlson's mother, Lisa McNear Lombardi, was a free-spirited artist who mostly disappeared from his life when he was six years old

Several pieces of art from Lisa Lombardi and Mo Mcdermott in the home of a California collector.Ted Soqui for Insider

The Eteri Expiration Date: Kamila Valieva and Russia's quest for figure skating gold

Eteri Tutberidze and choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz with figure skater Kamila Valiyeva in 2021.Sergei Bobylev / TASS via Getty Images

Noom sells psychology-driven weight loss. Some users expected therapy

Tara Anand for Insider

The Tucker Carlson origin story

Tucker Carlson during a CNN National Town Meeting on coverage of the White House sex scandal, on January 28, 1998.Richard Ellis/Getty Images

They went to Ukraine to be war heroes and fight Russians

Lukas and Tobias, two German volunteers, arrive in the western city of Lviv, just over a week after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began.Alan Chin for Insider

Disaster at 18,200 feet

Hokyoung Kim for Insider

Inside the isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia where 8 men were accused of raping more than a hundred women and girls, the horrific crime that inspired the film 'Women Talking'

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