What were the biggest stories of the year?

TIME and CNN chose these ten stories based on their impact, significance and long-term implications. In TIME Daily's Readers Choice (below), we ranked stories according to the intensity of your interest. What do you think? Scroll down and take our poll.

Top 10 stories of 1997

The death of Princess Diana

Hong Kong handover

Earth invades Mars!

Cloning Cloning

McVeigh guilty in OKC bombing

Big Tobacco coughs up

The death of Deng Xiaoping

Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

Blair, Labour win British elections

Revolution in Zaire