Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
Michael van Gerwen defeats Peter Wright to win the 2014 PDC World Darts Championship |
Jan 2 |
30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India |
Jan 4 |
14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India |
Jan 6 |
Zach Johnson wins the 2014 PGA Tournament of Champions |
Jan 8 |
40th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Josh Charles & Stana Katić win (Dramatic TV) |
Jan 9 |
5 people are killed in a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant, Yokkaichi, Japan |
Jan 9 |
Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year |
Jan 12 |
71st Golden Globe Awards: 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle win |
Jan 12 |
Stephen Bunting and Lisa Ashton win the 2014 BDO World Darts Championship |
Jan 12 |
"True Detective", a crime-drama starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, debuts on HBO |
Jan 13 |
14 people are killed and 7 are injured after an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China |
Jan 13 |
Cristiano Ronaldo wins the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or |
Jan 14 |
American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia |
Jan 17 |
21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan |
Jan 18 |
20th Screen Actors Guild Awards: Mathew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett win |
Jan 19 |
Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks win their playoff matches to reach Super Bowl XLVIII |
Jan 20 |
Credit cards of at least 20 million South Koreans are hacked |
Jan 22 |
Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres |
Jan 25 |
Li Na defeats Dominika Cibulková to win the Australian tennis open |
Jan 26 |
56th Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde, and Daft Punk win |
Jan 26 |
21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
Jan 26 |
Stanislas Wawrinka defeats Rafael Nadal to win the Australian Tennis Open |
Jan 28 |
Peter Cosgrove is named the next Governor-General of Australia |
Jan 28 |
DNA analysis confirms that the 6th C Plague of Justinian was caused by a variant of Yersinia pestis (the same bacteria for the Black Death) |
Jan 29 |
Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant'Omobono |
Jan 29 |
Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice |
Jan 29 |
Bohuslav Sobotka becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
Jan 30 |
24 hostages are killed after 6 suicide bombers temporarily take over the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation in Baghdad |
Feb 1 |
14 people are killed after Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia |
Feb 1 |
Ray Guy becomes the first pure NFL punter to be inducted in the hall of fame |
Feb 2 |
Seattle Seahawks defeat Denver Broncos 42-8 to win Super Bowl XLVII |
Feb 2 |
Super Bowl XLVIII becomes the the most viewed television event in the United States with over 111 million viewers |
Feb 3 |
2 students are shot & killed in a school shooting in Moscow |
Feb 4 |
10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India |
Feb 4 |
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland |
Feb 5 |
Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code |
Feb 6 |
Jay Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show |
Feb 8 |
15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia |
Feb 8 |
17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina |
Feb 8 |
Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12 |
Feb 9 |
Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old |
Feb 11 |
11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan |
Feb 11 |
77 people are killed after a military transport plan crashes in Algeria |
Feb 12 |
Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating |
Feb 14 |
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office |
Feb 15 |
Tammam Salam is elected Prime Minister of Lebanon after a 10 month gridlock |
Feb 16 |
67th British Academy Film Awards: 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor, & Cate Blanchett win |
Feb 17 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon premieres on NBC |
Feb 18 |
2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins |
Feb 19 |
2014 BRIT Awards: David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, & Arctic Monkeys win |
Feb 21 |
11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia |
Feb 21 |
US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama |
Feb 21 |
10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded |
Feb 22 |
Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Feb 22 |
Marit Bjørgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals |
Feb 22 |
Ukrainian parliament votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from his position |
Feb 24 |
Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time |
Feb 24 |
7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam |
Feb 24 |
A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earth's crust |
Feb 25 |
50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria |
Feb 27 |
Republic of Crimea announces a referendum & ousts its regional government |
Feb 27 |
Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed Prime Minister of the Ukraine |
Feb 27 |
Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm |
Feb 28 |
Russia moves troops into the Crimea to protect its interests against Ukraine |
Mar 1 |
34th Golden Raspberry Awards: Movie 43 wins |
Mar 1 |
29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China |
Mar 2 |
86th Academy Awards: "12 Years a Slave," Matthew McConaughey & Cate Blanchett win |
Mar 8 |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history |
Mar 12 |
8 people are killed, 70 are injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York |
Mar 16 |
Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design |
Mar 17 |
The Republic of Crimea is declared |
Mar 18 |
Phil Jackson signs a five-year contract to be president of the New York Knicks |
Mar 18 |
Transnistria formally requests to join the Russian Federation |
Mar 18 |
Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty |
Mar 18 |
US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats |
Mar 19 |
Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol |
Mar 21 |
Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation |
Mar 22 |
251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda |
Mar 22 |
30 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington |
Mar 24 |
Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea |
Mar 26 |
Taavi Rõivas becomes Prime Minister of Estonia |
Mar 27 |
UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea |
Mar 28 |
Russia increases the price of gas to the Ukraine by 80% |
Mar 29 |
Andrej Kiska is elected President of Slovakia |
Apr 1 |
NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia |
Apr 3 |
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta |
Apr 6 |
Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary |
Apr 8 |
Mike Babcock wins his 414th career game as head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, becoming the winningest coach in Red Wings history (passing Jack Adams) |
Apr 9 |
Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage |
Apr 10 |
88 civilians are killed by barrel bombs from Syrian war planes in Aleppo, Syria |
Apr 10 |
The Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote |
Apr 11 |
2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens |
Apr 12 |
The new drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C, is announced |
Apr 13 |
Kenyan Wilson Kipsang wins the London Marathon |
Apr 13 |
Bubba Watson wins the US Golf Masters |
Apr 13 |
Manny Pacquiao defeats Timothy Bradley to regain his WBO welterweight boxing title |
Apr 16 |
Real Madrid defeat Barcelona to win its 19th Copa del Rey trophy |
Apr 17 |
Abdelaziz Bouteflika wins a fourth term as President of Algeria |
Apr 18 |
12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest |
Apr 21 |
Meb Keflezighi wins the 2014 Boston Marathon |
Apr 22 |
David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United |
Apr 23 |
60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Apr 27 |
Ariana Grande's first single from her second debut album, "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, is released |
Apr 28 |
Craig Ferguson announces he will leave "The Late Late Show" at the end of 2014 |
May 3 |
California Chrome ridden by Victor Espinoza wins the 2014 Kentucky Derby |
May 4 |
Juan Carlos Varela is elected President of Panama |
May 10 |
The African National Congress wins the 2014 South African General Election |
May 10 |
Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest with Rise like a Phoenix |
May 13 |
Christopher Columbus's flagship, the Santa Maria, is discovered north off the coast of Haiti |
May 13 |
238 miners are killed by an underground explosion and mine fire in Soma Mine, Turkey |
May 16 |
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations |
May 17 |
Atlético Madrid win the 2013—14 La Liga |
May 17 |
Arsenal defeats Hull City to win the 2014 FA Cup Final |
May 17 |
Bayern Munich defeats Borussia Dortmund to win the 2013—14 DFB-Pokal |
May 17 |
California Chrome wins the 2014 Preakness Stakes |
May 18 |
Adam Scott overtakes Tiger Woods as the No. 1 ranked golfer in the world |
May 21 |
José Mário Vaz is elected President of Guinea-Bissau |
May 22 |
Royal Thai Armed Forces launch a coup d'état against the caretaker government of Thailand |
May 23 |
Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria |
May 24 |
Real Madrid defeat Atlético Madrid to win the 2014 UEFA Champions League |
May 25 |
Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine |
May 25 |
Dalia Grybauskaitė is re-elected President of Lithuania |
May 26 |
Narendra Modi becomes President of India |
May 28 |
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is elected President of Egypt |
May 30 |
Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is released to theatres, MacFarlane's first live-action role on the big screen |
May 31 |
Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube |
Jun 1 |
Kolkata Knight Riders win the Indian Premier League cricket championship |
Jun 3 |
Hashim Amla becomes the first non-white captain of the South African national cricket team |
Jun 7 |
Maria Sharapova wins the French Open women's tennis singles |
Jun 8 |
Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei win the women's tennis doubles at the French Open |
Jun 8 |
Rafael Nadal wins his ninth French Open title |
Jun 13 |
Los Angeles Kings defeat the New York Rangers to win the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals in 5 games |
Jun 14 |
49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down |
Jun 14 |
Alexander Stubb becomes Prime Minister of Finland |
Jun 15 |
Juan Manuel Santos is reelected President of Columbia |
Jun 15 |
Martin Kaymer wins the 2014 US Golf Open |
Jun 15 |
San Antonio Spurs defeat the Miami Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals |
Jun 18 |
Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters |
Jun 23 |
Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million |
Jun 23 |
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is re-elected President of Mauritania |
Jun 24 |
Sidney Crosby wins the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award for the 2014 NHL season |
Jun 25 |
Luis Suárez is charged with biting at the 2014 FIFA World Cup |
Jun 26 |
Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident |
Jun 26 |
Canadian Andrew Wiggins is selected as the No.1 draft pick in the NBA by the Cleveland Cavaliers |
Jun 30 |
Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England |
Jul 1 |
Jennifer Love Hewitt joins the CBS series "Criminal Minds" |
Jul 1 |
Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament |
Jul 2 |
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors |
Jul 4 |
Rolf Harris is sentenced to 5 years and 9 months for indecently assaulting female minors |
Jul 8 |
Germany defeat Brazil by a record 7-1 to make it to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final |
Jul 8 |
Miroslav Klose breaks the World Cup goal scoring record with 16 goals |
Jul 9 |
Joko Widodo is elected president of Indonesia |
Jul 9 |
Typhoon Rammasun begins and kills 151 people |
Jul 13 |
Germany defeats Argentina 1-0 in extra time to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final |
Jul 13 |
2014 FIFA World Cup: Lionel Messi (golden ball), James Rodriguez (golden boot); Manuel Neuer (Golden gloves) win |
Jul 14 |
The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops |
Jul 14 |
The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500 |
Jul 15 |
20 people are killed & 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow |
Jul 16 |
Bashar Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria |
Jul 17 |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board |
Jul 20 |
Rory McIlroy wins the 2014 Open Championship (British Open) |
Jul 23 |
2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow holds its opening ceremony |
Jul 23 |
44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan |
Jul 24 |
116 people are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali |
Jul 24 |
Fuad Masum is elected as the President of Iraq |
Jul 24 |
Reuven Rivlin is sworn in as the President of Israel |
Jul 26 |
Taghrooda wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes |
Jul 27 |
Vincenzo Nibali of Italy wins the Tour de France |
Aug 8 |
The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO |
Sep 4 |
Monsoon rains beging and cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India & Pakistan |
Sep 4 |
Aracheological remains of a Viking fortress from the 900s CE, the Vallø Borgring, is discovered in Denmark |
Sep 7 |
Asteroid 2014 RC makes a close approach to Earth (39,900 km; 24,800 mi) |
Sep 7 |
Serena Williams wins her third straight US Open women's tennis singles |
Sep 7 |
Bob and Mike Bryan win their fifth US Open men's tennis doubles |
Sep 8 |
Marin Čilić wins the US Open men's tennis singles |
Sep 11 |
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide) |
Sep 13 |
At least 8 people are killed after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast |
Sep 13 |
40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria |
Sep 14 |
The United States defeats Serbia 129-92 to win the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup |
Sep 15 |
Ewa Kopacz becomes Prime Minister of Poland |
Sep 17 |
Voreqe Bainimarama's Fiji First Party wins the first Fijian elections since his coup in 2006 |
Sep 18 |
Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom |
Sep 18 |
Emma Watson delivers an address to a standing ovation at UN Headquarters in New York City, helping launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality |
Sep 18 |
8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida |
Sep 20 |
New Zealand's National Government wins a 3rd term in the elections despite allegations of corruption and revelations about state surveillance |
Sep 22 |
NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars |
Sep 23 |
Grammy Award winning rapper Eve (35) weds entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper at Cala Jondal Beach in Ibiza, Spain |
Sep 27 |
57 people are killed after Mount Ontake erupts in Japan |
Sep 27 |
The West African death toll from the Ebola virus reaches 3,000 lives |
Sep 27 |
Hawthorn Football Club defeats the Sydney Swans in the 2014 AFL Grand Final 137-74 |
Sep 28 |
The European Team wins the Ryder Cup for the third straight time |
Sep 29 |
Ashraf Ghani becomes President of Afghanistan |
Sep 30 |
A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas |
Oct 1 |
Canadian freestyle skier and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 27 |
Oct 1 |
41 children are killed by a suicide bombing on the Akrameh al-Makhzumi school in Homs, Syria |
Oct 2 |
15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria |
Oct 3 |
83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions |
Oct 4 |
New Zealand win the 2014 Rugby Championship |
Oct 5 |
South Sydney Rabbitohs win the 2014 NRL Grand Final |
Oct 6 |
John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Oct 7 |
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes |
Oct 8 |
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize |
Oct 8 |
Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy |
Oct 9 |
Patrick Modiano wins the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature |
Oct 10 |
Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 12 |
Evo Morales is re-elected President of Bolivia |
Oct 14 |
Richard Flanagan's novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize |
Oct 15 |
Kansas City Royals win the MLB 2014 American League Championship Series |
Oct 16 |
New Zealand, Malaysia, Angola, Spain and Venezuela are elected to the United Nations Security Council |
Oct 19 |
A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States |
Oct 20 |
Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia |
Oct 21 |
Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp |
Oct 21 |
San Francisco Giants win game one of the 2014 World Series |
Oct 26 |
Dilma Rousseff is re-elected President of Brazil |
Oct 28 |
Kansas City Royals defeat the San Francisco Giants 10—0 in the 6th game to tie the 2014 World Series 3-3 |
Oct 29 |
San Francisco Giants win the 2014 World Series |
Oct 29 |
Madison Bumgarner is named MLB 2014 World Series MVP |
Oct 30 |
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks win the 2014 Japan Series |
Oct 31 |
2014 baseball HOF inductees: Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Frank Thomas, Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre |
Nov 3 |
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for world leaders to act on climate change following stark warning from scientists on its severe and irreversible effects |
Nov 4 |
Americans vote in mid-term elections which decide whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate and pave the way for the 2016 White House race |
Nov 4 |
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities in case of a new rebel offensive in the regions |
Nov 4 |
The body of the last missing victim of Italy's 2012 cruise ship disaster is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, which is being dismantled in Genoa |
Nov 4 |
More than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, New York's 104-storey World Trade Center re-opens for business in Manhattan |
Nov 5 |
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key rules out sending troops to fight against Islamic State, but claims there are 40 NZers on 'terror watchlist' |
Nov 6 |
The Republicans win control of the US Senate in mid-term elections, increasing its power in the final two years of Obama's presidency |
Nov 8 |
Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations |
Nov 8 |
Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War |
Nov 8 |
US President Obama authorises deployment of 1500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants |
Nov 9 |
United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS) |
Nov 9 |
Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance |
Nov 9 |
Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak |
Nov 9 |
Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption |
Nov 11 |
The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison |
Nov 11 |
An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake |
Nov 11 |
The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute |
Nov 11 |
The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence |
Nov 15 |
Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense |
Nov 15 |
World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth |
Nov 15 |
The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case |
Nov 15 |
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning |
Nov 20 |
Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US will have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes |
Nov 23 |
A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan |
Nov 23 |
An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country |
Nov 23 |
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan |
Nov 23 |
Republicans condemn US President Obama's use of executive powers to force through immigration reform |
Nov 23 |
Mass protests in Mexico by relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang |
Dec 28 |
AirAsia Flight QZ8501, enroute from Surabaya to Singapore, crashes in the Java Sea killing all 162 people aboard. |
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