2014
As 2014 closes, world still grasps for answers to year’s top news
More than nine months after searchers began scouring the seas for a Malaysia Airlines jetliner that vanished with 239 people aboard, the catastrophe defies...
South African beauty wins Miss World 2014 title in London
Rolene Strauss, a fourth-year medical student from South Africa, has been crowned Miss World 2014.
GPS in your head: Brain cell researchers win 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine
American-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discoveries...
'Sick notes' for sale as World Cup fever grips China
The 11-hour time difference between China and Brazil has given Chinese wheeler-dealers a lucrative opportunity selling fake sick notes to football fans...
DiCaprio donates $7m to prevent oceans turning into ‘massive dead zones’
Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $7m toward protecting the oceans after witnessing “environmental devastation firsthand.” The Hollywood star told...
Obama to use executive power to create world’s largest ocean preserve
President Barack Obama announced plans today to use executive power to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which would create the...
World Cup: Swiss roll over Ecuador, wins for France and Argentina
A dramatic goal deep into stoppage time gave Switzerland a 2-1 victory over Ecuador in their World Cup Group E opener on Sunday.
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