LDS President Russell M. Nelson announces that High Priests Quorum will be merged into Elders Quorum.
The Egyptian electorate vote in their presidential election, with incumbent President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi facing only one opponent.
The Kofu District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Japan announces nobody will be prosecuted over the collapse of the Sasago Tunnel, which killed nine and injured three.
Porn star Stormy Daniels sues Donald Trump, arguing that a nondisclosure agreement signed by her and Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is invalid.
hockey team of the National Hockey League
Turkish police discover 1.4 kilograms (3.1 lb) of radioactive-labelled material in a car in Ankara. Initially claimed to be californium by the smugglers, the material is later identified as a type of polystyrene sulfonate.
A French animal rights activist is charged under counterterror legislation for praising the death of a butcher in a terror attack.
Dilek Öcalan, MP for the pro-Kurdish HDP party, is sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of terror propaganda related to her participation in the 2016 funeral of a PKK fighter.
Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj tells Parliament DNA testing on remains in a mass grave in Iraq confirms 39 Indian nationals believed to have been kidnapped by ISIL have been killed.
The seven adults of the "Turpin children" are reported to have been released from the Corona Regional Medical Center in California and placed into an undisclosed residential home to lead normal lives.
National Hockey League franchise in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A United Kingdom panel, chaired by the former head of the Home civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake, issues a report which concludes that firefighters were prevented from attending the scene of the bombing for two hours. The report makes more than 50 recommendations.
NATO says the Afghan Air Force dropped its first laser-guided bomb on a Taliban compound on March 22. NATO have trained the Afghans in use of the equipment.
overview of notable events of 2018 in spaceflight
On the day of the funeral of slain journalist Ján Kuciak, for lack of evidence, police release seven Italian nationals who are accused of links with the 'Ndrangheta mafia in a posthumously published investigative report by Kuciak.
North Korean state media KCNA claims that, as a result of its nuclear weapons program, there has been "dramatic atmosphere for reconciliation" with South Korea, and "a sign of change" from the United States.
Japan, China, and South Korea agree in principle to hold a trilateral summit in May.
The measure also prohibits bump stocks, and creates a program for the arming of some teachers.
bilateral diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea
South and Southeast Asia, Western Asia, Northeast, East and Southern Africa and Australia
overview of US air transportation network
city in Isabella County, Michigan, United States
Evacuations of 7,500 people from rebel-held Harasta, Eastern Ghouta begin. Rebels agree with the Syrian government and Russia for the displaced people to be exiled in Idlib Governorate.
Free speech zones on college and university campuses
Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2, Malaysia
Israel admits for the first time that it carried out an airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, on 6 September 2007. The strike allegedly killed ten North Korean workers.
third planet from the Sun in the Solar System
In Japan, Kyushu Electric Power shuts down their Genkai Nuclear Power Plant because of a steam leak less than a week after being restarted for the first time in seven years.
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
United States top collegiate-level basketball tournament
Mountainous region in the Middle East, home to the Kurds
SPD party member vote on the 2018 coalition agreement of Germany
instruction to Federal government issued by the President of the United States
air warfare branch of Saudi Arabia's military
The United States government avoids another government shutdown when President Trump signs the 1.3 Trillion dollar omnibus spending bill into law.
Two U.S. Navy aviators – a pilot and a weapons officer – are killed after they eject from their FA-18 fighter jet, which crashes into the sea off Key West, Florida.
American former attorney and former Republican official
Iraqi authorities announce the arrest of alleged senior Islamic State member Saab Abdullah al-Issawi in a military-supported airdrop in Anbar.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn sacks Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Smith after he called for a second referendum on European Union membership. He is replaced by Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd.
Ged Kearney retains the Batman Division for the Australian Labor Party, despite earlier predictions that the Australian Greens would win.
United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel
2017 recognition by the United States of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel
Hours after the Polish so-called Holocaust Law about discussing of historical facts takes effect, the Polish League Against Defamation sues Argentinian newspaper Página/12, which it accuses of suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust.
The leaders of 44 African Union states sign an agreement in Kigali, Rwanda, to create the African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).
The party has long stated its hostility towards forming a coalition government.
attorney general for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
Craigslist deactivates its personals section in response to the U.S. Senate's passage of the bill.
combat search and rescue helicopter series of the H-60/S-70 family
Japan announces a fund worth US$940 million to encourage the foundation of new companies involved in space exploration.
astronomical object in interstellar space, such as a comet
list of medals won by Paralympic delegations
Four people are killed and 16 wounded when an extremist takes hostages in Trèbes, France. The suspect is killed by police.
diplomatic relations between the United States of America and the European Union
guided missile that uses semi-active laser homing to strike a designated target
The Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats advance to the National Championship Game after defeating the Loyola Ramblers and Kansas Jayhawks in the Final Four.
The complex is the first Arab nuclear power plant.
vehicle propelled by one or more electric motors
overview of crime in the Republic of Turkey
Florida's House of Representatives votes 67–50 to approve a gun and school safety bill that would raise the age to buy firearms from 18 to 21, sending the bill to Governor Rick Scott to sign into law. The measure also prohibits bump stocks, and creates a program for the arming of some teachers.
U.S. President Donald Trump, during a speech on his infrastructure plan in Richland County, Ohio, announces U.S. forces will be leaving Syria "very soon."
head of the United States Department of Justice
U.S. graphics processing unit producer Nvidia suspends all its tests of self-driving cars.
NASA astronomers use the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes in research implying that "hot Saturn" (high surface-atmosphere temperatures and gas giant-mass) exoplanet WASP-39b, located 700 light-years from Earth, has a large amount of water molecules in its atmosphere.
Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich replaces Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko as the Russian government executive in charge of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
On Land Day, the start of a planned six-week protest at the Israeli-Gazan border involving tens of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians and wound over 1,100 others as tens of thousands of protestors approach the border fence. ,
U.S. President Donald Trump tweets that possible progress is being made in talks with North Korea.
aviation activity conducted for any non-military purpose
President Donald Trump blocks Broadcom's proposed acquisition of Qualcomm.
large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores
Some politicians have vowed to resist the resignation in favour of instead impeaching Kuczynski.
Two connected stabbings occurred in Vienna, Austria: three people were seriously injured outside a Japanese restaurant, and one man in a later stabbing.
international airport in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha, Russia
Australian voters in South Australia, the Melbourne division of Batman, and the Perth electoral district of Cottesloe go to the polls in three separate elections.
China launches an oil futures market, with contracts denominated in yuan, in a bid to compete with oil benchmarks from the United States and Europe.
Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda
codified rules helping define association football
Former Vice President of Iran Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a close ally to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is arrested after criticizing Iran's judiciary.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe says inter-Korea talks could be a "meaningless" ploy by North Korea.
head of state and government of Argentina
Myanmar President Htin Kyaw resigns due to ill health. Vice-President Myint Swe, a former general, will become acting president until a new president is chosen.
gay bar, dance club, nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S.
The United Kingdom expels 23 Russian diplomats and cuts off all top-level ties with Russia as punishment for a reported attack with the Novichok military-grade nerve agent, an attack which Prime Minister Theresa May described as an "unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom".
terrorism in the region of United Kingdom
After an 18-month Sunday Mirror investigation, Theresa May has called for an inquiry "as quickly as possible" on reported Asian grooming gangs in Telford whereby up to 1,000 girls were lured from their families to be drugged, beaten, raped and even murdered.
U.S. President Donald Trump states North Korea was recently seeking talks with the United States.
republic of Russia, federal subject of Russia
It rules blood samples can be taken from the pair for analysis by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and grants the group access to medical records.
institution of the European Union defining the EU's general political direction and priorities and consisting of heads of state or government of the EU's member states
application of the science of anthropology in a legal setting
A search team led by Paul Allen's company Vulcan, Inc., using his research vessel Petrel, announces the discovery of the wreck of the USS Lexington (CV-2) about 800 kilometres (500 mi) off the eastern coast of Australia at a depth of around 3 km (2 mi).
Two men are rescued from a capsized dredger off Malaysia after 50 hours in an air pocket in the engine room.
Turkish troops and the Free Syrian Army seize control of the strategic town of Rajo, Syria, from YPG forces.
Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
2017 U.S. law sanctioning Iran, North Korea and Russia
Brazilian politician and outspoken police critic Marielle Franco is killed along with her driver in a drive-by shooting in Rio de Janeiro.
Spanish politician, trade unionist and teacher
All 23 Russian diplomats expelled from the UK and their families depart on a flight to Moscow.
East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey launches an investigation into alleged harvesting of Facebook profiles by Cambridge Analytica, a firm employed by Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.
A fire in the Winter Cherry complex, a shopping centre in Kemerovo, Russia, kills at least 64 people, the majority of which are children.
Lightning strikes a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda, killing 16 people and injuring dozens.
The Parliament of Iraq votes to oblige the federal government to set a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops.
island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
A Dutch court rules police are liable for a mass shooting at a shopping centre that killed six and wounded sixteen because the gunman should not have been issued a firearms licence.
U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on US$60 billion of Chinese goods, while also limiting China's ability to invest in the U.S. technology industry.
present phase of the Somali Civil War, concentrated in southern Somalia
unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year
ceremonial county in England, UK (use Q21694636 for administrative unitary authority)
Two men accused of an attempt to assassinate Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah die in a shootout with security forces.
The Kofu District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Japan announces nobody will be prosecuted over the collapse of the Sasago Tunnel, which killed nine and injured three. Officials say the collapse would have been difficult to predict.
will apply a tax on cars made in the European Union if the E.U.
The Miami Police Department states that they believe they have recovered the last of the victims killed by the bridge's collapse.
European commercial space transportation company
Italian police arrest five Tunisians suspected of links to Anis Amri, perpetrator of the December 2016 terror attack in Germany.
Minneapolis Police formally charge Mohamed Noor with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the shooting death of Justine Damond.
Two connected stabbings occurred in Vienna, Austria: three people were seriously injured outside a Japanese restaurant, and one man in a later stabbing. The perpetrator was arrested.
Chinese diplomat Chen Cheng repeatedly interrupts and objects to exiled dissident Yang Jianli's testimony to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The field for the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament is announced. The top overall seed is Virginia, with Villanova, Kansas, and Xavier as the other #1 seeds.
village in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria
The suspension of Facebook remains in place until the riots end.
The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) was held on 8 March 2018 being International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, annually held since then and feminist slogan Mera Jism Meri Marzi (My body, my choice) in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence came into vogue in Pakistan.
Congolese President Joseph Kabila signs a law that increases taxes on mining and government royalties on international mining companies working in DR Congo, including on the mining of cobalt, despite the opposition from foreign companies.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee announce the end of their Russia investigation, against the objections of Democratic members.
Angela Merkel is elected and sworn in for a new term as Chancellor of Germany.
highly contested topic especially for the fundamental human rights
television audience in recorded history, according to Nielsen Holdings.
Catalonia's ex-President Carles Puigdemont is detained in Germany.
capital city of Texas, United States of America
Trew had been given the option of a military trial or leaving the country.
Voters in Antigua and Barbuda go to the polls, with Barbudan residents having to travel to Antigua in order to participate.
"Gaudete et exsultate" ('Rejoice and Be Glad'; from Matthew 5:12) is the third apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, dated on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, and is subtitled "on the call to holiness in today's world". It addresses the universal call to holiness, with a focus "to repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time".
artificial satellite designed for telecommunications
Italy faces a period of political instability after the results of the general election are almost complete. The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is projected to be the largest party in the Italian Parliament with 32% of the vote. The party has long stated its hostility towards forming a coalition government.
The NRA is suing Florida after it passed a gun control law which would raise the minimum age for purchasing guns from 18 to 21.
conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
Mark Anthony Conditt, the main suspect in the serial bombings, dies after detonating a bomb in his vehicle while being pursued by Austin police officers.
2018 Philippine Piper PA-23 Apache crash
French President Emmanuel Macron says that Trump should hold tough talks with North Korea.
Corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces the elevation of Brazilian Ulisses Soares and Chinese American Gerrit W. Gong to the church's top leadership group, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. They are respectively the first Latin American and first man of Asian descent to serve in this role.
English judge Christine Henson fines St. Michael's Hospice in St. Leonards, at East Sussex, over the July 2015 fire in which three residents died.
Antonio Tajani, the current President of the European Parliament, accepts the offer of Silvio Berlusconi to stand as a candidate for Prime Minister of Italy for Forza Italia.
cataclysmic nuclear explosion in a white dwarf star
Office of the Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
China's National People's Congress approves the removal of presidential term limits, in a move that allows current president Xi Jinping to remain president for life.
List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
Date: 19 December 2016 20:02 CET (UTC+01)
DNA tests confirm Ata, an unusual six-inch-long mummy found in Chile in 2003, to be the remains of a newborn human with genetic mutations.
The European Union agrees with the United Kingdom's assessment of the incident, stating that "there is no plausible alternative explanation" to Russian involvement.
An anomalous weather event caused due to dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara, leads to an orange snow blanketing several Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. This weather event happens roughly every five years; a similar event occurred in Siberia in 2007.
Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca announces that it is shutting down due to the economic and reputational damage inflicted by its role in the global tax evasion scandal.
The closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics takes place with the United States team winning the medal table with 36 medals (13 gold, 15 silver and 8 bronze).
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
scandal involving unconsented use of personal information on Facebook for political advertising
Toyota pulls all its self-driving cars off U.S.
court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court
The 23 British diplomats and their families expelled from the Russian Federation arrive on a flight from Moscow.
Journal of Adolescent Health publishes research from the University of Texas at Austin implying that transgender youths have a much lower risk of suicide when they are permitted to use their own chosen names. ,
An Israeli military spokesperson said that he got too close to the border fence.
The United States accuses North Korea of using VX to kill Kim Jong-nam, and imposes apparently symbolic sanctions against North Korea.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 36 pro-Syrian government troops were killed in a Turkish airstrike in Afrin, Syria.
A Red Arrows jet crashes in North Wales, killing an engineer.
Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union
The French ambassador to Italy is summoned to the Italian foreign ministry to explain an incident in which French police cross over the sovereign border of Italy, enter a migrant clinic in Turin, and force a refugee to take a urine test.
The Trump administration through the United States Department of State publishes a 60-day notice of request for public comment, proposing to collect social media identities from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the United States.
capital and largest city of the United Kingdom
A tank containing ethyl acetate explodes in a port in Livorno, Italy, killing two people.
The field for the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament is announced. Connecticut, the only remaining unbeaten Division I team of either sex, is the top overall seed, with Notre Dame, Louisville, and Mississippi State as the other #1 seeds.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz accuses the European Union of "double standards" and of suffering "a deficit of democracy".
Six alleged members of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action appear in court. One is accused of planning to kill MP Rosie Cooper and another is charged with inciting murder.
British YouTuber and political candidate
4th President of South Africa (2009–2018)
The European Space Agency announces a mission to study the atmospheres of exoplanets. Selected as Cosmic Vision medium class M4 mission, ARIEL is expected to launch in 2028.
South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority Director Shaun Abrahams says former President Jacob Zuma will be prosecuted for corruption, relating to a R30 billion arms deal in the late 1990s. Zuma disputes all the allegations against him.
capital city of Western Australia, Australia
bureaucracy of the national government of the United Kingdom
Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, detained in Syria on suspicion of beheading hostages for Islamic State, claim their right to a fair trial has been breached by the government of the United Kingdom stripping them of citizenship.
Claims emerge that Uber had disabled Volvo's collision avoidance technology in the self-driving car involved in a fatal accident in Arizona.
A United States court jury in Florida finds the widow of Omar Mateen not guilty of assisting her husband in the June 2016 attack that killed 49 people.
The top overall seed is Virginia, with Villanova, Kansas, and Xavier as the other #1 seeds.
system of judiciary and courts in Kingdom of Denmark
The report makes more than 50 recommendations.
Old Bailey Justice Charles Haddon-Cave sentences convicted terrorist Umar Haque, who indoctrinated children he was teaching in London so that he could use them to commit attacks, to lifetime incarceration with parole eligibility only after 25 years.
The Court of Protection hears the Skripals are unable to communicate and may have suffered lifelong brain damage. It rules blood samples can be taken from the pair for analysis by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and grants the group access to medical records.
city in Ingham and Clinton counties, Michigan, United States
warns Abbas to "choose between hate and peace".
Australia and East Timor sign a treaty for a permanent maritime border in the Timor Sea, ending a decade-long dispute over rights to the sea's rich oil and gas reserves.
specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture
In a private speech to Republican donors at Mar-a-Lago, U.S. President Donald Trump congratulates Chinese President Xi Jinping on eliminating China's presidential term limits, reportedly advocates for similar action to be taken in the United States.
South African officials determine that the country's ongoing listeriosis outbreak—which is already the world's deadliest listeriosis outbreak, killing over 180 people and sickening 1,000 more—was caused by contaminated "Polony" processed meat. The Ministry of Health issues a recall of contaminated products from RCL Foods and from Tiger Brands subsidiary company Enterprise Food and advises the public to avoid all processed meat products that are sold as ready-to-eat.
Former Prime Minister and candidate to the elections, Matteo Renzi, resigns as Secretary of the Democratic Party.
The Metropolitan Police deny searching the aircraft.
Former United States Department of Justice attorney Jeffrey Wertkin is sentenced to 2½ years in prison for what prosecutors called the DoJ's "most serious" example of public corruption, which involved stealing more than 40 whistleblower fraud cases in 2016 with intentions to sell the secret information to companies under federal investigation.
President Donald Trump orders the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle.
Convicted terrorist Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali is jailed for life in London for one count of attempted murder and one of causing an explosion with intent to endanger life.
The Speaker of the Catalan Parliament, Roger Torrent, proposes Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol as a candidate for President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, but he has been preventively jailed since 16 October 2017, accused of sedition.
Senegalese Judge Malick LaMotte sentences Khalifa Sall, mayor of Dakar, Senegal, to a five-year term for fraud.
United Kingdom government non-ministerial department
Computers at Boeing are infected with the WannaCry ransomware.
Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War
A statue of the Kurdish legendary figure, Kaveh the Blacksmith, is bulldozed by Turkish-backed forces.
Thirteen Catalan separatist politicians appear before the Spanish Supreme Court.
A Madrid court issues an order shutting down a website that uses extracts from Don Quixote to recreate the book Farina. Farina, an investigation of drug trafficking, is the subject of a freedom of speech debate after a court halted sales ahead of a libel case. ,
ocean between Africa, Asia, Oceania and Antartica
United States missile defense complex in Poland
A bulldozer damages a gas line with a subsequent explosion at a construction site in al-Jalala mountain, Egypt, killing two people and wounding nine more.
South Korea states that North Korea is willing to hold talks with the United States on denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.
Turkey calls a statement of European Union support for Greek Cypriots in a dispute over offshore resources "unacceptable". Turkey has been using its Navy to prevent exploration by Cypriot vessels.
The South Korean Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board issues its final report on the March 2016 near-collision between a China Southern Airbus A319 and a Korean Air Boeing 737-800 on a runway in Cheongju, South Korea.
The Polish government announces a planned visit for April 9 from European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans.
At least 25 people are killed in a fire at a drug-rehabilitation clinic in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Danish government ministry responsible for military and national defense matters
A British yachtsman falls overboard from Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag. A search and rescue operation launches, with one ship diverting from over 400 nautical miles away.
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
United States federal district court in Washington (U.S. state)
Convicted terrorist Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali is jailed for life in London for one count of attempted murder and one of causing an explosion with intent to endanger life. He will have to serve 34 years before becoming eligible for parole.
The FBI arrests Everett, Washington, 43-year-old Thanh Cong Phan on suspicion of charges of illegally shipping explosive materials by sending 12 package bombs to the CIA as well as multiple military and government facilities in the Washington, D.C. area. Those devices did not explode.
Police in Austin, Texas announce that three package bombs in recent days that have killed two people and injured one more appear to be connected.
ISIL releases purported footage of the October 2017 attack on American special forces in Tongo Tongo, Niger.
Thirteen Catalan separatist politicians appear before the Spanish Supreme Court. Marta Rovira, who is "self-exiled" in Switzerland, does not attend.
A hotel collapses in Indore, India, killing at least 10 people.
sovereign state in Southern Europe situated on an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
Austrian diplomat, journalist and politician
An alleged Senate Intelligence Committee report states that a House Intelligence Committee Republican was behind the leak to Fox News of private text messages between a Russian-connected lawyer and Senator Mark Warner, the committee vice-chairman, concerning an attempt to contact Christopher Steele, author of the Trump–Russia dossier.
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
position at the Central Intelligence Agency
fear, hatred of, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general
The Department for Work and Pensions wins a court case holding that benefits claimants cannot raise arguments based on the European Convention on Human Rights at tribunals, and must instead go via the High Court.
Democrat Conor Lamb declares victory in the special election of Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district. The final vote could still be determined by a recount if at least three voters in each precinct petition for one.
The Putin administration closes the United States consulate in Saint Petersburg and expels 60 U.S. diplomats from Russia as a retaliatory measure to the closing of the Russian consulate in Seattle, Washington.
Austin, Schertz, and Round Rock, Texas, United States
Czech refinery and petrochemical company
A Peruvian court confirms it will consider a request to impose a travel ban on President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski if his resignation is confirmed by lawmakers, who are considering whether to accept it.
Russian politician and diplomat (born 1967)
group of people from one state present in another state to represent the sending state
A car bomb near an International Committee of the Red Cross office wounds three people in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2018 opening of regular sessions of the National Congress of Argentina
The Speaker of the Catalan Parliament, Roger Torrent, proposes Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol as a candidate for President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, but he has been preventively jailed since 16 October 2017, accused of sedition. This happens after Carles Puigdemont resigns as a possible candidate, who, if elected, would have been a symbolic president with a symbolic government in Brussels. The candidacy of Sànchez also reportedly lacks one seat for a majority.
Students throughout the United States participate in a walkout protest against gun violence.
List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters
Three people are killed in a fire at the Manila Pavilion Hotel in the Philippines.
Lawmakers at the Kentucky Senate and the Kentucky House of Representatives pass a heavily disputed pension overhaul and forward it to Governor Matt Bevin for his signature.
diplomatic relations between North Korea and Sweden
any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune
Poland signs a deal with the United States to buy a US$4.75 billion Patriot missile system.
U.S. President Donald Trump orders the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle.
British music journalism website and former magazine
Following a collapse of a farm and a large release of Atlantic salmon into the Pacific, the state of Washington bans the farming of Atlantic salmon in their territorial waters.
Investigators discover the Skripals switched off their mobile phones for four hours shortly before falling ill, and begin examining mobile phone data from everyone in Salisbury the day of the crime in a bid to link a phone to the poisoner.
ArXiv publishes research that a gas giant may be orbiting a brown dwarf. The exoplanet, designated OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb, orbits its host at a distance of 0.59 AU and could be the first known gas giant to have formed inside the protoplanetary disk of a brown dwarf.
Mubarak al-Ajji, named on a Qatari official list of wanted terrorists, wins second place at a government-sponsored triathlon and is photographed at the medal ceremony.
Sheikh Tamim of Qatar visits Russia to discuss the situation in Syria, Yemen and Palestine.
The field for the 2018 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament is announced.
The second round of a general election begins in Sierra Leone with a tight race expected between the People's Party and the All People's Congress.
French public university located in Provence. Created the 1st January 2012 from the merger of Université Aix Marseille I, Aix Marseille II and Aix Marseille III
city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States
The United States charges and sanctions nine Iranians and the Iranian company Mabna Institute for hacking and attempting to hack hundreds of universities.
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales issues new guidelines increasing the penalties for terrorist offences.
type of nationalism or pan-nationalism which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people
Jeju Island emerges as a possible location for U.S.–North Korea summit talks in May.
Boeing loses a case in Copenhagen city court against the Danish Ministry of Defense over access to documents used in the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters in preference over Boeing F/A 18 Super Hornets. Boeing argued the evaluation process used in the purchase had been "flawed".
province of Indonesia, on the island of Borneo
List of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2018
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he is "extremely worried" about the impact of a trade war, adding that it could "undermine economic gains".
Protests continue in Slovakia after last week's collapse of the government, which included the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment with the Israeli Lod District Court against Abed al-Karim Adel Asi for the murder of a rabbi on February 5 and the Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against Malek Yusef Nahar Asadi for the March 4 attempted murder by ramming a car which injured four people.
Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom is evacuated after a bus catches fire outside the main terminal.
Economic policy of the Donald Trump administration
A car bomb blast in Mogadishu, near the Weheliye hotel in the Somali capital, kills at least 14 people and injures 10 others. Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast.
Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, Nature Astronomy publishes observations of what may be a new exoplanet named K2-229b, whose attributes may resemble the planet of Mercury (hot, metallic, and dense). , ,
NIWA declares that the previous summer, which had an average temperature of 18.8 °C (65.8 °F), was the hottest in New Zealand history.
Fugitive ex-minister Clara Ponsatí i Obiols says she will hand herself over to Police Scotland, who have received a copy of the European Arrest Warrant for her.
Selected as Cosmic Vision medium class M4 mission, ARIEL is expected to launch in 2028.
U.S. President Donald Trump pardons Kristian Saucier, who had served a one-year sentence for unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information.
free trade agreement founded in 2018 and commenced in 2021
inalienable fundamental rights to which people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland are inherently entitled
international court in Strasbourg, France, established by the European Convention on Human Rights
A Brooklyn federal court sentences Martin Shkreli to seven years in prison for securities fraud in his hedge fund and pharmaceutical companies.
Chinese prototype space station in orbit from 2011 to 2018
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announces the withdrawal of the Philippines from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over "outrageous attacks" by United Nations officials.
2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit
In order to make sea room for expanding berthing facilities in Trincomalee Harbour, the Sri Lankan navy raises the SS Sagaing, a British passenger ship sunk when it was bombed in an April 1942 Japanese air strike during World War II.
Sebastian Piñera takes office for the second time as President of Chile.
Jordi Turull i Negre, ex-member of the dismissed regional government, who was imprisoned amid sedition and under investigation due to his connection in a corruption scandal involving CiU, is named candidate by the President of Catalan Parliament in an investiture for Thursday, March 22.
2017–18 Mississippi State Bulldogs women's basketball team
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
head of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Shortly after the announcement of the closure of Toys "R" Us stores in the UK, the company announced that they will close down all 800 stores in the United States, resulting in the loss of about 33,000 jobs.
county in Virginia, United States; part of Washington metropolitan area
Swiss voters reject a proposal to scrap the television licence fee that provides the majority of funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Swiss voters also approve the right of the federal government to levy VAT and direct federal tax until 2025.
An Austrian soldier was stabbed and injured in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna.
Police release onboard video from an autonomous Uber car that fatally struck a pedestrian crossing the road in Tempe, Arizona.
American businessman, investor and philanthropist (1953–2018), a co-founder of Microsoft
A former French Parliamentarian candidate of the La France Insoumise party is arrested for tweeting that the death of Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame was "great" and "one less vote for Emmanuel Macron."
26th United States National Security Advisor
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov says Russia will "definitely" expel British diplomats.
Date: Main combat phase: 20 January – 24 March 2018 (2 months and 4 days) Main insurgency phase: 25 March 2018 – 9 August 2019 (1 year, 4 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
South Korean President Moon Jae-in announces he is sending two officials to meet with North Korea.
Philippines-related events during the year of 2018
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) expands the search area to 560 square nautical miles for nine crewmen missing since March 21 from a capsized sand dredger off the coast of Malaysia. MMEA requests for the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency to assist in the operation.
A passenger ferry grounds off the coast of South Korea, injuring at least six people with The South Korean Coastguard evacuating all 163 on board.
Officials with former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva say shots were fired at two of his reelection campaign buses.
She appears before court and is released on bail.
In Kosovo, opposition lawmakers set off tear gas to prevent the ratification of a border treaty with neighboring Montenegro.
borough of New York City, New York, United States
The government of the Netherlands recalls a diplomat from Turkey after local newspapers accused him of spying.
Seven people are killed in an attack on the city of Beni, North Kivu, DR Congo by the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group, which crossed the border from Uganda.
Police arrest a man at the Freedom Monument displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews as a protest against an annual march in Riga, Latvia, honoring two Latvian SS divisions during World War II.
A second winter storm occurs in the East Coast of the United States, only a few days after another storm.
The Senators say the bill will discriminate against victims and descendants who had emigrated.
A study commissioned by the UK government concludes marine plastic debris may treble within ten years, and predicts the "ocean economy" will double to US$3 trillion (£2 trillion) by 2030.
During the trial it was revealed that Mateen's father was an FBI informant.
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were en route to the United States.
overview of the foreign relations of the Philippines
Prime Minister Bruno Tshibala says the election – delayed repeatedly since President Joseph Kabila's term expired in December 2016 – will occur this December.
self propulsion of a person through water or other liquid; mainly on the water surface
Head of State of the Republic of Mauritius
US President Donald Trump issues an order banning "transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition" from the military. Pentagon spokesman Major David Eastburn says this announcement will have no immediate practical effect for the military which will continue to recruit and retain transgender people in accordance with current law.
Alleged Libyan financing in the 2007 French presidential election
Alleged Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections
fourth branch of Saudi Arabia's Armed Forces.
The United Nations reports that from January 2017 to January 2018 a total of 47 people were killed in protests against Congolese President Joseph Kabila.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives
It is the first successful prosecution of cow vigilantism violence in India.
Physician to the President of the United States
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
A roadside bomb in Syria kills one British and one U.S. soldier and injures five more coalition personnel. It is the first death of a British soldier fighting ISIL.
Research published in the journal Science Advances implies the Earth may have had water earlier than thought, and that terrestrial water could have survived the impact that created the Moon, the event which was previously hypothesised to be responsible for our planet's water.
overview of the legality and prevalence of abortions in Poland
District judge George B. Daniels of the District Court for the Southern District of New York has rejected the government of Saudi Arabia’s request to throw out lawsuits claiming the nation helped plan the September 11 attacks.
Grodno and Brest regions, Belarus Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Qatar's Interior Ministry releases a list of individuals and entities it says are linked to terrorism.
For the first time in the history of the Division I men's tournament, a #16 seed defeats a #1 seed, as UMBC shocks top overall seed Virginia 74–54.
An Afghan War veteran and recently expelled resident takes an executive director and two psychologists into a room at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, California.
Two ships collide in the Great Belt strait between Funen and Zealand, near Romsø, Denmark.
The Hellenic Parliament passes a bill legalising the use of medical cannabis in Greece. New Democracy, Communist Party, Golden Dawn and the Union of Centrists voted against the government-sponsored bill.
Qantas Airways Flight QF9 becomes the first ever regularly scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and Europe after making the 17-hour journey from Perth to London.
A four-storey building collapse kills two firefighters in Pennsylvania.
The government of Turkey rejects the government of France's offer to mediate in the conflict between Turkish armed forces and Kurdish YPG militia in Syria.
The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States restricts "doors off" aircraft flights following a helicopter crash that killed 5 people.
The World Health Organisation says a listeria outbreak spread via infected food responsible for 200 deaths in South Africa may have spread to Namibia.
List of secretaries of the Democratic Party (Italy)
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
multi-purpose indoor arena in Inglewood, California, United States, adjacent to Los Angeles
Miro Cerar announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Slovenia, due to the Supreme Court of Slovenia's annulment of the referendum that approved building a railway between Koper and Divača, a project which he calls "strategic".
head of government of the United Kingdom
Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005–06), President (2016–18)
Delegations from North Korea, South Korea, and the United States meet in the outskirts of Helsinki, Finland.
French police detain two men in connection with the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was found in the burned remains of her apartment.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach meets North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Scientists discover a large colony of more than 750,000 pairs of Adélie penguins on the Danger Islands in Antarctica.
A rocket fired from rebel-held Eastern Ghouta strikes a popular market in Damascus, killing at least 35 people, according to Syrian state TV SANA.
capital and largest municipality of Spain
major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
The town is extensively destroyed by Turkish airstrikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States
Jackfruit becomes official state fruit of Kerala.
The 31st annual Kids' Choice Awards takes place.
Italian counter-terror police arrest Elmahdi Halili on suspicion of planning attacks with knives and lorries, attempting to recruit terrorist attackers, and creating the first piece of Islamic State propaganda in Italian.
any attempt to expose, alter, disable, destroy, steal or gain unauthorized access to or make unauthorized use of a computer system
U.S. President Donald Trump accepts an invitation from North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un to discuss North Korea's denuclearization sometime by May.
A student shoots his parents dead in a dorm at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States. ,
A fire breaks out in the upper floors of a hotel and apartment block building in Ballymun, Ireland, near Dublin Airport. The fire affects the top seven floors of the building and two floors of apartments, without casualties.
national government of the United States
Thousands protest across Poland against the government's proposed restrictions on abortion.
A shooting occurs at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland. Two students are reported injured; the shooter is killed by police.
Hundreds of thousands of people participate in the March for Our Lives protest around the world regarding gun violence, mass shootings and school shootings in the United States.
bilateral relations between Qatar and Russia
island sovereign state in the central Pacific Ocean
head of the United States Department of State
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data breach
Date: 8 August 2016 – c. 2019 (c. 3 years)
Islamophobic incidents in the United Kingdom
A car bomb claimed by Al-Shabab kills five people including the driver and wounds around ten others outside Somalia's Parliament, Interior Ministry, and Presidential Palace buildings in Mogadishu.
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 374 Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,000 submitted by the government of Bangladesh.
He will have to serve 34 years before becoming eligible for parole.
National counter-terror prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho states that an estimated 50 people have returned to Italy after fighting with the Islamic State.
Former President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak is detained on charges of taking bribes when he was in office.
The Peruvian Congress votes 105–12 to accept President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's resignation.
deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information
crime or tort of harming the reputation of a legal person through false or misleading statement
A Línea Aérea Amaszonas passenger plane overruns the runway at Riberalta Airport after abandoning takeoff due to a bird strike and crashes into a ditch with no injuries.
In the latest in a series of raids, Italian authorities detain 19-year-old Ilyass Hadouz in Fossano on suspicion of pro-ISIL extremism.
An overloaded bus carrying migrants from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan crashes into a light pole on the Igdir-Kars highway in Turkey and catches fire.
island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
island territory of the United States of America
North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un meets with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, on what is his first known travel outside North Korea since assuming office in 2011.
tax required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts
first version of the Soyuz launch vehicle
A friend of poisoned exiled Russian spy Sergei Skripal claims Skripal had written to Vladimir Putin asking to return to Russia.
Judge Llarena reactivates the European Arrest Warrants against Carles Puigdemont, Marta Rovira, and four fugitive ex-members of dismissed regional government.
Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy is preliminarily charged with illegal funding of his 2007 presidential campaign, passive corruption and receiving money from Libyan embezzlement.
country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl recalls diplomat Jürgen-Michael Kleppich from Israel after he is photographed wearing a t-shirt with slogans linked to Nazism.
The United States government avoids another government shutdown when President Trump signs the 1.3 Trillion dollar omnibus spending bill into law. This bill ensures no more shutdown threats until October 1, 2018. ,
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils his plan to combat the United States's opioid epidemic which includes harsher penalties for drug traffickers, including the death penalty.
highest organ of state power and legislature of the People's Republic of China
Republicans raise concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on metal imports. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he is "extremely worried" about the impact of a trade war, adding that it could "undermine economic gains".
communications satellite owner and operator
Police state their investigation indicates the collision could not have been avoided.
NATO says the Afghan Air Force dropped its first laser-guided bomb on a Taliban compound on March 22.
A UNICEF report says that 20% of girls under 18 are married, compared to 25% ten years ago, with an estimated 25 million marriages having been prevented in the past decade.
In a message on Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S.
Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide 10-day state of emergency, the first since 2011, in an effort to calm communal tensions. The previous day, a Sinhalese Buddhist mob attack on Sri Lankan Muslim shops in the region of Kandy, Central Province, left a Muslim person dead.
Russia's Ministry of Transport suspends all flights by Saratov Airlines after conducting checks on the company's Antonov An-148 aircraft.
A man attempts Seppuku at Nankang Software Park in Taiwan, apparently in response to the final public appearance of online celebrity Zhou 'Dora' Yingxin.
French and European spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana
An attempted prison break and subsequent rioting and fires at a police station in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, results in at least 68 people dead. Two women who were visiting inmates are thought to be among the dead. Prosecutor General Tarek Saab says an investigation into what has happened would begin immediately.
A bomb targeting police in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, kills three people and injures five others.
sport and art performed with figure skates on ice
The Trump administration imposes financial sanctions on 19 Russian nationals, including 12 of those indicted in the Special Counsel investigation.
Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped, super-heavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile
The impersonator allegedly used the same stolen identity twice.
flight routes from Australia to United Kingdom via Eastern Hemisphere
bilateral relations between Russia and Sudan
city in Guadalupe, Bexar, and Comal counties, Texas, United States
The UN Refugee Agency reports that more than 900,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing fighting in the central provinces of DR Congo between militias and government forces since 2016.
President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and 2014 to 2018
Fifteen new exoplanets are discovered. Three of them, larger than Earth, are also discovered around the dwarf star K2-155. Furthermore, a 3D climate simulation was created to find out if K2-155d has water.
public broadcasting group of Switzerland
Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in office.
rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy
Iranian immigrant Hussein Khavari is convicted of rape and murder in a case that provoked widespread discussion of refugee immigration to Germany.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees
2018 United States gun violence protests
2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash
public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States
Railways, airways, schools and power generation are affected.
Polish President Andrzej Duda vetoes a bill that would have demoted all communist-era military officers who served between 1944 and 1990 to private.
List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
Rif Dimashq offensive (February–April 2018)
Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
border guard branch of the Federal Security Service of Russia
political-religious armed movement in Yemen
A hot air balloon hits a tree near Sydney, Australia, wounding 16 people.
Norwegian justice minister Sylvi Listhaug resigns amid controversy over remarks on human rights and national security.
An aircraft operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla Airlines crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal, killing 49 of the 71 people on board.
A Chinese court sentences Zhang Zhongsheng, the former Vice Mayor of Lüliang, Shanxi, to death.
A car bomb kills five people and injures six others in Ajdabiya, Libya.
roads in the wake of a fatal accident involving an Uber vehicle.
British automotive and aerospace engineering firm GKN (founded in 1759) is sold to British-based investment company Melrose Industries for £8.1 billion.
European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker conclude talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The government of Russia claims that United Kingdom police searched an Aeroflot Airbus jet at Heathrow Airport arriving from Moscow. The Metropolitan Police deny searching the aircraft.
Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico resigns amid controversy over the murder of Ján Kuciak.
A friend of poisoned exiled Russian spy Sergei Skripal claims Skripal had written to Vladimir Putin asking to return to Russia. Russia denies receiving such a letter.
There are no reports of immediate damage.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces that New Zealand will give NZ$10 million to Tonga to help with rebuilding after the country was struck by Cyclone Gita in February.
French police detain two men in connection with the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was found in the burned remains of her apartment. The prosecutor's office is investigating if the killing was "motivated by the real or supposed adherence to a religion".
A Piper PA-23 passenger aircraft bound for Laoag International Airport in Ilocos Norte, Philippines, crashes upon take off from Plaridel Airport in Bulacan, killing all five people onboard as well as five on the ground.
Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, Nature Astronomy publishes observations of what may be a new exoplanet named K2-229b, whose attributes may resemble the planet of Mercury (hot, metallic, and dense).
state highway in Arlington County, Virginia, United States
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says that the White House needs to see "concrete and verifiable steps" toward the denuclearization of North Korea before meeting with Kim Jong-un.
Polish environment minister Henryk Kowalczyk says Poland alone should decide the fate of the protected Białowieża Forest, ahead of a European Court of Justice ruling on whether additional logging allowed by the Polish government at the UNESCO world heritage site breaches European Union rules.
Chilean search and rescue authorities declare that a crewman who fell overboard from a competitor vessel is lost at sea.
An Austrian soldier was stabbed and injured in front of the Iranian embassy in Vienna. The attacker, which had Islamist sympathies according to the authorities, was shot dead.
Near-Earth asteroid 2017 VR12 makes a flyby past Earth.
Date: 8 April 2017 – 12 June 2018 (1 year, 2 months and 4 days)
Russian President Vladimir Putin accepts an invitation to visit Sudan from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
A Eurocopter 120 helicopter carrying five people crashes into the sea near Hardy Reef off the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia. Two people are killed.
An attack on a village, part of the unrest between ethnic Lendu and Hema communities, leaves 49 people dead in the Ituri Province of DR Congo.
legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime
The death toll rises to 52 people as a survivor dies in hospital.
Advertisers remove their ads from InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channels. Many of the brands say they were not aware their adverts were being shown on the channel until being contacted by CNN.
In Austin, Texas, a fourth bomb detonates, injuring two men. The Austin Police Department believes it is connected to the other parcel bombings, but do not believe it to be connected to the bomb threat leveled at the SXSW festival.
Date: 31 January 2009 – present (13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
The status change comes after alleged health attacks.
Transgender personnel in the United States military
island of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea
Qatar's Interior Ministry releases a list of individuals and entities it says are linked to terrorism. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, who had demanded the list amid tensions with Qatar, welcome its release but criticise the time taken to prepare it.
A market in the town of Harem, Idlib province, is reportedly struck by Russian aircraft, killing 35 people including 12 children.
The government of Ireland lifts a 90-year ban on the sale of alcohol on the religious holiday of Good Friday.
They are respectively the first Latin American and first man of Asian descent to serve in this role.
A Russian Border Guard Service Mil Mi-8 crashes in Chechnya, killing at least eight people.
Far-right politics in the United Kingdom
Dapchi, Bulabulin, Yunusari, Yobe State, Nigeria
The judge remands Jordi Turull, Josep Rull, Carme Forcadell, Dolors Bassa and Raul Romeva into custody again.
Clara Ponsatí i Obiols, fugitive ex-Minister of Education of Catalonia, hands herself over to Police Scotland. She appears before court and is released on bail.
South Korea and the United States announce that the Foal Eagle and Key Resolve military drills will be scaled down and shortened.
An unknown source supposedly leaks a report from the German defence ministry which suggests the nation's Tornado fighter jets may not meet NATO requirements for secure encrypted communications and are therefore potentially unsuitable for NATO missions.
9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
global international and intergovernmental organization
Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
human settlement in Maryland, United States of America
The Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile completes its probe into the March 2016 near-miss between two commercial aircraft at Basel/Mulhouse Airport, concluding miscommunication between an air crew and air traffic control was to blame. One aircraft took off over the top of the other one.
Police say the attack "may have been politically motivated".
The FBI arrests Everett, Washington, 43-year-old Thanh Cong Phan on suspicion of charges of illegally shipping explosive materials by sending 12 package bombs to the CIA as well as multiple military and government facilities in the Washington, D.C.
sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
Italy faces a period of political instability after the results of the general election are almost complete.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri delivers a speech in the Congress to start the regular sessions for 2018.
A search team led by Paul Allen's company Vulcan, Inc., using his research vessel Petrel, announces the discovery of the wreck of the USS Lexington (CV-2) about 800 kilometres (500 mi) off the eastern coast of Australia at a depth of around 3 km (2 mi). The aircraft carrier was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.
American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones
city in Travis and Williamson counties in Texas, United States
Program that locks files until a sum of money is paid
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
international organization based in The Hague
French left-wing activist Stephane Poussier receives a one-year suspended term for praising the death of a policeman in a terrorist attack.
Date: 9 December 2017 – present (5 years, 1 month, 2 weeks and 3 days)
The Putin administration gives the government of the United Kingdom one month to reduce its diplomatic missions' sizes to mirror those of the Russian ones in Britain.
A New Zealand light aircraft pilot Rod Vaughan claims that his plane was brought down at Waihi after colliding with a drone.
A Cirque du Soleil performer dies after falling 15 feet (4.6 m) during a performance in Tampa, Florida.
It addresses the universal call to holiness, with a focus "to repropose the call to holiness in a practical way for our own time".
The current largest cruise ship in the world Royal Caribbean International's $1.35 billion MV Symphony of the Seas commences its maiden voyage.
European organisation dedicated to space exploration
system when a process variable or variables have been changed and the system has not yet reached a steady state
Many of the brands say they were not aware their adverts were being shown on the channel until being contacted by CNN.
The Crown Prosecution Service charges pilot Andrew Hill with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence and one count of endangering an aircraft over an accident at Shoreham Airshow in England.
U.S. President Donald Trump fires Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, moving to replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Trump selects CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo as director.
The United States permanently downgrades their embassy in Havana, making its status 'unaccompanied', meaning a post at which no family members are permitted to reside.
October 2017 announcement by which Catalonia declared their independence and founded the Catalan Republic
A New Zealand light aircraft pilot Rod Vaughan claims that his plane was brought down at Waihi after colliding with a drone. If true, it would be the first such incident in the country.
800 South Main Street, Corona, California, United States
The Syrian government and rebel forces reach an agreement to allow 7,500 people to evacuate from rebel-held Harasta, Eastern Ghouta.
2017–18 UConn Huskies women's basketball team
An Afghan community centre is burned down in Athens, Greece. An extreme far-right group claims responsibility, and the United Nations condemns the attack.
Aircel, India's fifth-largest wireless provider, declares bankruptcy.
census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States
The governor of Arizona suspends all statewide-testing of Uber autonomous cars following the March 19 fatal accident involving Uber self-driving car research.
International Committee of the Red Cross
nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of Russian Federation
The Syrian Army declares that the Eastern Ghouta towns of Arbin, Zamalka, Jobar, and Ein Tarma are vacated of rebel fighters. Except for the town of Douma, which is facing an ultimatum, the government controls most of the area around the capital Damascus.
Dilek Öcalan, MP for the pro-Kurdish HDP party, is sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of terror propaganda related to her participation in the 2016 funeral of a PKK fighter. Nine HDP MPs are currently in jail.
Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election, 2018
former sailor sentenced to 12 months in prison
A message in a bottle found in Australia is confirmed to have been adrift for almost 132 years, making it reportedly the oldest known message in a bottle.
A massive winter storm occurs in the East Coast of the United States, leaving millions without power and cancelling thousands of airplane flights.
diplomatic relations between Australia and East Timor
Anonymous Japanese government sources say that Japan is considering a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
Saudi Arabian state-owned petroleum company
Slovak politician, former prime minister and member of parliament
International Football Association Board
After a series of allegations of sexual misconduct against co-founder Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company also states that it will release all employees from a non-disclosure agreement which could prevent them from coming forward regarding the alleged misconduct of Weinstein.
North Korea accepts South Korea's proposal to hold high-level inter-Korean talks, scheduled to take place on March 29.
North American professional baseball league
A letter from 59 US Senators is sent to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticising proposed legislation on reparations to Holocaust victims.
Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, who had demanded the list amid tensions with Qatar, welcome its release but criticise the time taken to prepare it.
The Florida Senate rejects a bill to ban assault weapons and holds a moment of “silence and reflection” for the Parkland, Florida, victims.
A Madrid court issues an order shutting down a website that uses extracts from Don Quixote to recreate the book Farina.
Two ships collide in the Great Belt strait between Funen and Zealand, near Romsø, Denmark. One catches fire.
study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe
An overloaded bus explodes a tyre and crashes near Bhanjyang, Nepal, killing at least two people and wounding dozens of others.
The Independent claims the Metropolitan Police misidentified material in convicted bomber Ahmad Hassan's possession as not related to ISIS when in fact it was produced by the group.
laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms
Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, United States
North Korea foreign minister Ri Yong-ho visits Sweden for talks.
The Law Society of England and Wales issues a report claiming that Turkey has prosecuted 1,539 lawyers since the 2016 coup d'état attempt.
One of the victims of the shooting at Great Mills High School in Maryland dies from her injuries.
The Kenyan Court of Appeals rules forced anal examinations on suspected homosexuals are illegal.
wide ranging taxes, tariff and trade treaty
The United Kingdom Foreign Office considers a consular request from the government of Russia for visitation with Yulia Skripal, the daughter of poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini holds crisis talks with Markus Ederer, the bloc's recalled ambassador to Russia.
Telford child sexual exploitation scandal
Ongoing sexual exploitation scandal in Telford, England
NATO have trained the Afghans in use of the equipment.
human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway
passenger airport at Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England
Research published in the journal Nature implies the existence of a galaxy that appears to contain no dark matter, dubbed NGC1052-DF2. If confirmed it would be the first such galaxy discovered. ,
chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27
Interstate 395 (Virginia–District of Columbia)
public research university in London, United Kingdom
country in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa
The EU ambassador to Russia is recalled from Moscow.
President of the Government of Catalonia
head of government of the Generalitat of Catalonia
15,000 demonstrators gather in Barcelona, Spain, to support the mock region of Tabarnia—a hypothetical area that includes the least independentist areas of Catalonia—as a way to oppose Catalan independence and the declaration of independence on October 27.
The World Health Organisation says a listeria outbreak spread via infected food responsible for 200 deaths in South Africa may have spread to Namibia. The organisation reaches out to 16 African nations it assesses as at risk.
Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammad bin Salman meets Pope Tawadros II at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral.
1.3 Trillion dollar omnibus spending bill
Polish lawyer and politician, President of Poland (b. 1972)
international airport in Selangor, Malaysia
European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker conclude talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The parties say they have been unable to agree on human rights issues but pledge to hold more talks.
ground warfare branch of Turkey's military
An explosion followed by a building collapse kills four and injures 20 in Poznan, Poland.
global information, data and measurement company
A bus and a lorry collide head-on near Kitonga, Tanzania, killing twenty six people and wounding nine others.
social identity that an Internet user establishes in online communities and websites
Jordi Turull fails in the first vote to become President of the Generalitat. The next session will be held on Saturday, March 24.
A bomb planted beneath a car explodes in Alexandria, Egypt, as a motorcade carrying the city's head of security passes by, killing at least two people.
The opening ceremony of the 2018 Paralympic Games in South Korea takes place.
system of courts that interprets and applies the law
In regards to the March 23 attack that killed four people, French state prosecutor François Molins charges attacker Radouane Lakdim's 18-year-old girlfriend with terrorist conspiracy.
President Vladimir Putin visits the scene and declares "criminal negligence" responsible for the high death toll.
American multinational technology company
A Russian Antonov An-26 transport plane crashes during an attempted landing at Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Syria, killing all 39 people onboard.
Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from Greenland dates an eruption on Eldgjá volcano in Iceland. Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem Völuspá.
The SA Liberals win a majority of seats in South Australia's lower house, ending 16 years of Labor Party government in the state.
storm on the North American East coast in March 2018
U.S. Federal Judge Michael P. Shea of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in Hartford, Connecticut awards an injured passenger US$272,000 against Caribbean Airlines over the July 2011 airliner crash in Guyana.
Updated predictions suggest that derelict Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will reenter Earth's atmosphere over the weekend.
bilateral diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea
legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts
informal diplomatic relationship between the United States and Iran
Palestinians are planning a mass demonstration in the Gaza Strip, ahead of the U.S. Embassy move.
One is accused of planning to kill MP Rosie Cooper and another is charged with inciting murder.
Seven hours later, California Highway Patrol officers find all of them shot dead.
bilateral relations between Israel and Syria
Polish politician, former President of the European Council, and former Prime Minister of Poland
easternmost coast of the United States, located near the North Atlantic Ocean
United States Africa Command announces that a March 24 airstrike in Ubari, Libya, killed Musa Abu Dawud, who was a wanted alleged senior member of al-Qaida.
The US Department of Justice announces it will reclassify bump stocks as machine guns, effectively outlawing them.
If true, it would be the first such incident in the country.
Vice-President Myint Swe, a former general, will become acting president until a new president is chosen.
Italians go to the polls today to elect the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 members of the Senate of the Republic.
Government shutdowns in the United States
Houthis claim to have shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 jet over Sa'da province, Yemen.
Poland's ruling Law and Justice proposes changes to planned judicial reforms in response to European Union criticisms the plans threaten judicial independence. The European Commission is threatening Poland with sanctions over the reforms.
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In Madarganj Upazila, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, a group of between 70 and 80 people from one faith of mosque attack an inauguration ceremony for another faith of mosque, resulting in at least 20 injured.
The government of Ukraine states that it expelled two Iranians earlier this year for attempting to buy a Kh-31 missile in Kiev, in violation of United Nations sanctions.
gender identity other than sex assigned at birth
A second package presumed to have been sent by the bomber is discovered in a FedEx facility near Austin–Bergstrom International Airport.
2017–18 South African listeriosis outbreak
2017–2018 South African listeriosis outbreak
ISIL releases a statement claiming responsibility for killing or wounding 103 Iraqi soldiers within one month.
Catalan activist Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol, imprisoned accused of sedition, drops his bid to lead the Catalan government.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asserts his nation will secure Northern Cyprus' access to natural hydrocarbon resources off the Cypriot coast. The comments come amid disputes as to sovereign rights and access to offshore resources on the island.
A terrorist attack at the French embassy and military headquarters in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, leaves 28 people dead and at least 50 others injured.
United States Space Force facility in Brevard County, Florida
John Dowd, the most senior lawyer advising U.S. President Donald Trump on allegations of Russian electoral interference, resigns.
trade restrictions levied by the United States government
hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
The International Football Association Board, which sets the rules for association football, approves the use of video assistant referees, which will be used at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
The Washington Capitals defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in a special outdoor hockey match, 5–2, at the Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.
former British, now stateless terrorist and drug dealer
The death of Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov, who lived in exile in the United Kingdom, is confirmed by a coroner's examination to be a murder. The killing happened eight days after the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
Marta Rovira, Carme Forcadell, ex-president of the Parliament and Dolors Bassa, ex-member of the dismissed government who was in prison accused of sedition, resigns as Deputy before the declaration in front of Supreme Court that will be held on March 23.
An Afghan community centre is burned down in Athens, Greece.
The South Korean Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board issues its final report on the March 2016 near-collision between a China Southern Airbus A319 and a Korean Air Boeing 737-800 on a runway in Cheongju, South Korea. The Board reports the Airbus crew misunderstood the full meaning of the specific ground control runway instruction.
Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Four suicide bombers attack Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing five people with thirteen others wounded.
television awards show program broadcast in 2018
province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Leonards, at East Sussex, over the July 2015 fire in which three residents died.
Research published in the journal Science Advances implies the Earth may have had water earlier than thought, and that terrestrial water could have survived the impact that created the Moon, the event which was previously hypothesised to be responsible for our planet's water. ,
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
diplomatic crisis between several Arab League countries and Qatar
overview of gun violence in the United States
Vice President Martín Vizcarra is sworn in to replace Kuczyski.
The European Commission is threatening Poland with sanctions over the reforms.
Spanish police in Alicante arrest the suspected leader of a bank hacking scheme believed to have stolen over €1 billion.
The Singaporean Parliament approves the Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act, which makes it a crime to take pictures and relay information during terror attacks.
British Prime Minister Theresa May calls the incident "part of a pattern of Russian aggression against Europe" and promises to raise the matter at an upcoming European Union summit.
Emeritus University of Tennessee Professor Richard Jantz claims that bones found in 1940 on Nikumaroro, Kiribati, almost certainly belong to lost aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, himself the victim of a September 2004 poisoning, calls for military action to be considered against Russia.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs detains Ziyavudin Magomedov, his brother Magomed Magomedov, and the chief executive of the Summa Group on charges of embezzlement of public funds and criminal association. A Moscow court orders Ziyavudin Magomedov, one of the richest Russians, to remain in pre-trial custody until May 30. ,
Boko Haram releases most of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls it had kidnapped in February 2018, and warns against sending them back to school.
A court in Quebec City accepts guilty pleas to six murders and six attempted murders tendered by Alexandre Bissonnette on March 26 and lifts restrictions on reporting the pleas after he passes a psychiatric evaluation. The charges relate to the January 2017 Islamophobic shooting at a mosque that Justin Trudeau described as a terrorist attack.
passenger ship used for pleasure voyages
bilateral relations between Australia and United States
criminal organization and far-right neo-nazi political party in Greece
The ATF reports that there were no serious injuries.
Norwegian musher Joar Leifseth Ulsom wins the 2018 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
international treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe
2001 Islamist terrorist attacks in the U.S.
mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences; more specifically, techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses
The NTSB says it will investigate issues firefighters had trying to determine how to respond.
The death of Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov, who lived in exile in the United Kingdom, is confirmed by a coroner's examination to be a murder.
Police in Austin, Texas announce that three package bombs in recent days that have killed two people and injured one more appear to be connected. The packages were left off at three separate locations and were not placed there by any delivery service, police say.
Protests erupt across Spain, especially in Barcelona, against Puigdemont's detention.
capital and most populous city of Finland
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)
governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The Times reports their journalist, Bel Trew, had been expelled from Egypt shortly after her February 20 arrest.
The European Union calls on Turkey to cease military actions aimed at enforcing Turkish claims to disputed natural gas deposits. The bloc also asks Turkey to release detained EU citizens.
An Afghan War veteran and recently expelled resident takes an executive director and two psychologists into a room at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, California. Seven hours later, California Highway Patrol officers find all of them shot dead.
census-designated place (CDP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1832 onwards
Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit demands Guatemala reverse its decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala, Sandra Jovel says the move is "irreversible."
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is held for up to 48 hours and questioned by police in Nanterre over allegations that he illegally accepted €50 million from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance his bid in the 2007 presidential election.
express agreement between nations under international law
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency claims a Vietnamese fishing vessel tried to ram one of their boats when they tried to detain it for illegally entering and fishing from Malaysian waters.
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger
A man is arrested in Austin, Texas, for threatening, via email, to bomb the SXSW festival.
Democrat Conor Lamb declares victory in the special election of Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district.
Anthony Sablan Apuron, the former Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña, Guam is found guilty on charges of the sexual abuse of minors by a tribunal.
Christian religious holiday, the Friday before Easter
A bomb detonates overnight at a FedEx facility in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The FBI believes the bombing is linked to the other bombings in the area. The ATF reports that there were no serious injuries. Both the bomb's point of origin and intended destination were in Austin.
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigns amid a vote buying scandal.
U.S. President Donald Trump appoints conservative commentator Larry Kudlow as National Economic Council director, replacing outgoing Gary Cohn.
Fighting breaks out between anti-fascist protesters and supporters of white nationalist Richard B. Spencer when he gives a speech at Michigan State University, before they are separated by police.
diplomatic relations between Russia and the European Union
Congressman, American medical doctor, former Obama,Trump Physician to the President
The Shape of Water wins a leading four awards, including Best Picture, followed by Dunkirk, which won three awards.
German political activist; founder of Pegida
The Dutch swimmer Maarten van der Weijden sets the 24-hour swimming record in a 25-meter pool at 102.8 kilometres (63.9 mi).
city in and county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States
An inquest is opened into the death of murdered Russian exiled dissident Nikolai Glushkov in London.
layer of gases surrounding a material body
The European Court of Human Rights says that Turkish authorities violated the rights of journalists Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay when they were arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup. The court ruled the men, one of whom is now serving life, were innocent and their rights to freedom of expression and to liberty had been violated.
Soviet military intelligence officer convicted of spying for the United Kingdom
Trump selects CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo as director.
Burmese politician and scholar serving as the 9th President of Myanmar
Any sort of asteroid or non-cometary astronomical object observed to have an orbit not bound to the Sun
The company has issued a statement that it expects its stores to remain operational while it restructures its debt.
A fire destroys four World Food Programme warehouses in Hudaydah, Yemen, which contained 50 tonnes of food as well as fuel and mattresses.
The government of Russia declares a state of emergency in Volokolamsk over toxic hydrogen sulphide fumes leaking from a dump at at least ten times permitted concentrations.
A suspected drunk driver loses control while fleeing police in Maputo, Mozambique, strikes a crowd, and kills 21 people, injuring 30 more.
The Argentine Navy rescues four United States Antarctic Program scientists and a contractor stranded on Joinville Island in Antarctica after their icebreaker RV Laurence M. Gould encountered thick sea-ice.
meat which has been modified in order either to improve its taste or to extend its shelf life
class of organophosphates; classified as weapons of mass destruction
Three people (two American, one Russian) launch successfully from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz MS-08 to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 55.
Act on the Institute of National Remembrance
The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army seizes control of Jindires in Syria's Afrin District from the Kurdish YPG. The town is extensively destroyed by Turkish airstrikes, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Ministry of Health issues a recall of contaminated products from RCL Foods and from Tiger Brands subsidiary company Enterprise Food and advises the public to avoid all processed meat products that are sold as ready-to-eat.
Lawmakers at the Kentucky Senate and the Kentucky House of Representatives pass a heavily disputed pension overhaul and forward it to Governor Matt Bevin for his signature. Several school districts will close on Friday due to teacher protests against the bill.
Arianespace launches mission VS18 from the Guiana Space Centre, a Soyuz rocket carrying a payload of four O3b communications satellites for SES.
List of presidents of the Parliament of Catalonia
Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim is to resign over a financial scandal, where she was accused of using a charity bank card to make personal purchases worth tens of thousands of dollars.
American online social media and social networking service
The government of Turkey states that eleven Kurdish militants have been killed near its Syrian border, and two soldiers were killed by an explosion in Syria.
A fairground ride collapses in Neuville-sur-Saône, central France. Occupied pods attached to the ride fall to the ground, ejecting some riders, with one man dead.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz asks the European Commission to halt its use of Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union against the nation in exchange for modifications to controversial proposed judicial reforms.
The Court of Protection hears the Skripals are unable to communicate and may have suffered lifelong brain damage.
maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fires former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe because of a report from the Office of Professional Responsibility accusing McCabe of making an unauthorized news media disclosure and lacking candor on multiple occasions.
head of state and of government of Turkey
The trial of Noor Salman, widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, hears closing arguments. Jurors begin deliberations. During the trial it was revealed that Mateen's father was an FBI informant.
Sri Lanka ends the state of emergency declared on March 6, 2018.
ocean between Asia, Australia and the Americas
U.S. Government agency which maintains U.S. presence and research in Antarctica
2015 TH367 (previously known as V774104), a 100–400 kilometer asteroid, is announced as possibly the fourth most distant known Solar System object from the Sun at nearly 90 (±10) times Earth's distance from the Sun.
term in reference to concentration camps built and run by Nazi Germany in Poland
The comments come amid disputes as to sovereign rights and access to offshore resources on the island.
Diplomatic Mission of the United States in Cuba
Cyclone Hola makes landfall in New Zealand.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi lifts a ban on international air travel to the Kurdistan Region.
Southern Island belonging to South Korea
The Times reports their journalist, Bel Trew, had been expelled from Egypt shortly after her February 20 arrest. Trew had been given the option of a military trial or leaving the country.
List of European Space Agency programmes and missions
Shutdown of Gran Turismo 6 Online Servers
head of state and of government of the Republic of Korea
Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district
Stansted Airport in the United Kingdom reopens after a shuttle bus fire.
political situation in the Palestinian territory of Gaza since the 2007 takeover by Hamas
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer tells a Senate panel that President Donald Trump has decided to "pause" tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the European Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea.
bridge designed for pedestrians and in some cases cyclists, animal traffic and horse riders, rather than vehicular traffic
intentional act of causing one's own death
Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)
The governments of China and North Korea both confirm that North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un met with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing during the past four days. China states that North Korea is "committed to denuclearization" and willing to hold a summit with the United States.
acts of terrorism commited by Palestinians
55th expedition to the International Space Station
A judge in Catania, Italy, upholds the seizure of a Proactiva Open Arms ship that brought migrants to Sicily after refusing to hand them over to the Libyan Coast Guard.
military forces of the Russian Federation
Democratic Republic of the Congo general election, 2018
Journal of Adolescent Health publishes research from the University of Texas at Austin implying that transgender youths have a much lower risk of suicide when they are permitted to use their own chosen names.
The linguistics journal Diachronica publishes Australian research implying that a tracement of the country's indigenous languages can be made back to a single, common language known as Proto-Australian, which was spoken around 10,000-years ago.
political ideology which opposes secessionist and independence movements in the Spanish territories
U.S. Department of Justice immigration Judge Jose A. Sanchez in Boston, Massachusetts, approves an extradition request from the government of Guatemala for Juan Alicio Samayoa Cabrera, who is wanted for trial for war crimes.
Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, wounded when he came to the aid of the poisoned Russian dissidents, is discharged from hospital.
James Ibori, a former governor of Delta State, Nigeria, launches a bid to overturn his guilty pleas on corruption charges in the UK alleging police corruption.
Parliament that exercises the legislative power of the Government of Catalonia
administrative jurisdiction within the United Kingdom
The company also states that it will release all employees from a non-disclosure agreement which could prevent them from coming forward regarding the alleged misconduct of Weinstein.
sovereign state situated on an island in the Caribbean Sea
air service branch of the United States Armed Forces
Except for the town of Douma, which is facing an ultimatum, the government controls most of the area around the capital Damascus.
A Peruvian court confirms it will consider a request to impose a travel ban on President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski if his resignation is confirmed by lawmakers, who are considering whether to accept it. Some politicians have vowed to resist the resignation in favour of instead impeaching Kuczynski.
Date: 16 January 2012 – present (11 years, 1 week and 3 days)
English judge Christine Henson fines St.
Land (federal state) in southwestern Germany
The vote will determine if the SPD is allowed to form a coalition with Angela Merkel's CDU.
type of ship travelling over short to medium distances between two places transporting people, cars or trains and acting like a replacement for a bridge
fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya Mall in the Russian city of Kemerovo on March 2018, killed officially at least 64 people, mostly children
crime, motivated by prejudice and usually violent
official currency of the People's Republic of China
continent on the Earth's northern and southern hemispheres
He is replaced by Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd.
United States Government agency dedicated to civil aviation matters
Kent County, Michigan special prosecutor Bill Forsyth charges William Strampel, the former dean of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan in East Lansing, Michigan, with misconduct in office, fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, and two counts of willful neglect of duty in connection with the Larry Nassar scandal.
A helicopter crash in Manhattan's East River kills five people.
United States investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections
A bus falls off a bridge in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines, killing at least 19 people and injuring 21 others.
meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un
Another lawsuit is filed against the Catholic Church in Guam, bringing the total lawsuits alleging historical sexual abuse to 157.
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
The United Arab Emirates, with help from Korea Electric Power Corp., completes construction of the first reactor complex at the Barakah nuclear power plant 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Ruwais.
Antigua and Barbuda's ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party wins a second term in a landslide vote.
ceremonial county in England (use Q21694646 for administrative non-metropolitan county)
peer-to-peer ridesharing, food delivery, and transportation network company headquartered in San Francisco, California
overview of human rights in the united states, including history
A private plane from Sharjah to Istanbul crashes in the Zagros Mountains in Iran, killing Turkish socialite Mina Başaran along with, according to Iranian state media, ten other people on board. ,
Former Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are taken to a hospital in critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. Skripal was granted refugee status in the UK following a "spy swap" deal between the UK and Russia in 2010.
According to the investigation's preliminary findings, the 2016 Trump campaign did not collude with the Russian government, and, contrary to the U.S.
continent on Earth, mainly on the Earth's northeastern quadrant
The next session will be held on Saturday, March 24.
The United Nations issues a report calling for an end to the nation's state of emergency, claiming it has been used to violate human rights. Turkey responds, calling the report "biased" and "unacceptable".
lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly
Legality of cryptocurrency by country or territory
highest federal executive body in the Russian Federation, headed by the Prime Minister
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announces the elevation of Brazilian Ulisses Soares and Chinese American Gerrit W. Gong to the church's top leadership group, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee announce the end of their Russia investigation, against the objections of Democratic members. According to the investigation's preliminary findings, the 2016 Trump campaign did not collude with the Russian government, and, contrary to the U.S. intelligence community's previous conclusions, Russia did not have a preference for Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.
A U.S. Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter crashes near Al-Qa'im in Iraq's western Al Anbar Governorate, killing all seven people on board.
former Leader of the British Labour Party, MP for Islington North
2017–18 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team
raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures such as fish ponds, usually for food
Because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) routinely failed to notify screened immigrant asylum-seekers of the one-year deadline for filing an actual asylum application, Western Washington state chief federal district judge Ricardo S. Martinez orders DHS to give those who missed the deadline another year to file their application, and to modify the DHS asylum system to avoid future problems.
diplomats from Russia as a retaliatory measure to the closing of the Russian consulate in Seattle, Washington.
Postal ballots of the 2018 SPD coalition party member vote are due. The vote will determine if the SPD is allowed to form a coalition with Angela Merkel's CDU.
Six people are killed after an explosion at a Unipetrol plant in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic.
A Florida man is arrested after killing his girlfriend and nine-year-old daughter in their home in Riverview, Florida.
attack at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin on 19 December 2016
Iraqi politician and Prime Minister of Iraq
terrorist attack on French Embassy in Burkina Faso
tropical sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located east of Central America, south of the Greater Antilles and north of South America
airbase located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, Latakia Governorate, Syria
county seat city of Monroe County, Florida, United States; island in Florida Keys
head of state and head of government of Sierra Leone
Poland's ruling Law and Justice's Arkadiusz Mularczyk says Germany owes Polish victims of World War II a total of 1.984 trillion zloty (US$543 billion, 440 billion euros) in compensation.
Another lawsuit is filed against the Catholic Church in Guam, bringing the total lawsuits alleging historical sexual abuse to 157. Louis Brouillard, who is now 96, was on Guam from 1948 to 1981, and is accused of abusing boys in 100 of the lawsuits the church is facing.
currently operational space telescope for observing gamma rays
2013–2018 British political consulting firm
A suicide car bomber kills one person and injures fourteen others near the Australian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
national referendums held in Switzerland in 2018
After struggling with debt from a leveraged buyout, Claire's files for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. The company has issued a statement that it expects its stores to remain operational while it restructures its debt.
The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) launches a probe into a Tesla electric car crash and fire in California. The NTSB says it will investigate issues firefighters had trying to determine how to respond.
The United Arab Emirates, with help from Korea Electric Power Corp., completes construction of the first reactor complex at the Barakah nuclear power plant 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Ruwais. The complex is the first Arab nuclear power plant.
A letter from 59 US Senators is sent to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticising proposed legislation on reparations to Holocaust victims. The Senators say the bill will discriminate against victims and descendants who had emigrated.
The Lansing, Michigan, Catholic Diocese's insurance company files a civil suit against Rev. Jonathan Wehrle, former pastor of St. Martha's Catholic Church in Okemos, a Lansing suburb, for the embezzlement of more than $5 million from his parish. Wehrle already faces six criminal counts for using embezzled funds to pay for home construction (appraised for much more than a $1 million), maintenance, and purchases. , ,
Series of consecutive bombings in Austin, Tx
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
List of international trips made by Kim Jong-un
ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots
Police launch an attempted murder probe.
capital city of New South Wales, Australia
Poland's ruling Law and Justice proposes changes to planned judicial reforms in response to European Union criticisms the plans threaten judicial independence.
A bus carrying migrant workers from Myanmar catches fire near Bangkok, Thailand, killing twenty people and injuring one other.
The Superleague Greece season is suspended indefinitely by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports after PAOK FC owner Ivan Savvidis invaded the pitch with several bodyguards during a match against AEK Athens F.C. while armed with a gun, after his side had a late goal ruled out for offside.
British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76 at his home in Cambridge.
mummified corpse from the Atacama desert, Chile
third campaign of the European Space Agency Science Programme
Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division)
A video begins circulating on social media appearing to show an unarmed teenager being shot.
Citing national security concerns, U.S. President Donald Trump blocks Broadcom's proposed acquisition of Qualcomm.
Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)
Conviviality PLC, owner of Wine Rack and Bargain Booze, announces it has been refused investment to stave off bankruptcy and will likely enter administration.
nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church
The organisation reaches out to 16 African nations it assesses as at risk.
U.S. President Donald Trump announces former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton will become his National Security Advisor, succeeding the outgoing H. R. McMaster.
The government of Russia expels 59 diplomats from 23 nations and may also take retaliatory action against four other countries.
Illegal immigration to the United States
immigration to the U.S.A. in violation of American law
eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il . Nacio en 1971 múrio en 2017. Cheh ! Il était connue pour ça mocheté
An anarchist group claims responsibility for a bombing outside a courthouse in Athens, Greece, on March 24.
An Indian court convicts eleven Hindus of murdering a Muslim man they discovered transporting beef, sentencing them to life. It is the first successful prosecution of cow vigilantism violence in India.
Citing national security reasons, U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imported from most countries.
minor planet of the inner Solar System; not a comet
The newspaper says it has submitted evidence to the Central Criminal Court that could affect Hassan's sentence.
commune in the metropolis of Lyon, France
The bloc also asks Turkey to release detained EU citizens.
American figure skating coach Richard Callaghan is suspended by the United States Center for SafeSport for alleged inappropriate sexual conduct with a 15-year-old pupil in 1985, first reported in 1999.
town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States
The Spanish National Police Corps arrest the two Mossos d'Esquadra and Asia History academic, Josep Lluís Alay, who accompanied Puigdemont in the van at the moment he was detained in Germany amid a crime of concealment. On 28 March were released.
Louis Brouillard, who is now 96, was on Guam from 1948 to 1981, and is accused of abusing boys in 100 of the lawsuits the church is facing.
The Polish government announces a planned visit for April 9 from European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans. The government of Poland and the European Union are locked in a dispute over planned judicial reforms.
Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, leader and deputy of the British far-right organization Britain First, are convicted of hate crimes for posting things deemed offensive online. Golding is sentenced to 36 weeks in prison and Fransen to 18 weeks in prison for promoting Islamophobic activities and harassment.
head of government of the Italian Republic
national intelligence agency of the United States
2017–18 Xavier Musketeers men's basketball team
city in Dallas County, Texas, United States
A fire at a condominium complex in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, kills at least 13 people and injures another 27, with most people dying of suffocation or jumping from high floors.
Ford issues a recall of 1.4 million vehicles, including some models of the Ford Fusion and the Lincoln MKZ, citing an issue where the steering wheel could come loose.
President Ameenah Gurib leaves the office after resigning on 17 March over a credit card from a NGO scandal. She is succeeded ad interim by Vice President Barlen Vyapoory.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she believes it is "highly likely" that the Russian government was behind an attempt to murder Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a Novichok agent.
Malta imposes a freeze on Pilatus Bank. The bank's Iranian chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was arrested and charged in the United States earlier this week, accused of breaching United States sanctions against Iran.
Outgoing Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signs a new law which creates nine marine reserves. The new legislation will increase the area of sea under state protection from 4.3% to 42.4%.
South Korea states that they want high-level talks with North Korea before the summit.
State media reports preliminary indications incumbent President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has won 90% of the vote with a 41% turnout.
Citing national security reasons, U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imported from most countries. Canada and Mexico are provisionally exempt pending NAFTA renegotiations. The tariffs will take effect on March 23.
escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, due to the rapidly improved nuclear weapons capability of North Korea
Non-governmental sports organisation (founded 1894)
Canada and Mexico are provisionally exempt pending NAFTA renegotiations.
upazila in Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh
Peruvian ex-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's homes are raided by police investigating Operation Car Wash.
United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
United States federal district court in Michigan
former Australian federal electoral division
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says "potentially positive signals" come from North Korea, but that the two countries are "still a long way" from direct negotiations.
2018 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
phenomenon in which a whale becomes stuck on a beach, often causing the whale's death
European astronomers discover eight new exoplanets classified as Hot Jupiters as part of the WASP project.
2017–18 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team
suicide bombing in Manchester, England on 22 May 2017
President Donald Trump announces that he is replacing David Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs and will nominate Ronny Jackson, who is currently the President's Physician, to fill the position.
Consulate-General of the United Kingdom, Saint Petersburg
The Turkish Army and Free Syrian Army seize the Kurdish stronghold of Afrin from the YPG in northern Syria, raising the Turkish flag above the city centre.
Ukrainian MP Nadiya Savchenko is arrested in Parliament over an alleged plot to attack Parliament and overthrow the government.
The court ruled the men, one of whom is now serving life, were innocent and their rights to freedom of expression and to liberty had been violated.
fourth medium mission of Cosmic Vision; optical telescope for surveys of known exoplanets
president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
Maoists blow up a mine-protected vehicle of CRPF personnel with an IED, killing at least nine and injuring two others in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh, India.
Facebook apologizes after including a question in a user survey on the acceptability of soliciting sexual pictures from minors on its platform.
An overloaded bus explodes a tyre and crashes near Bhanjyang, Nepal, killing at least two people and wounding dozens of others. A riot follows.
Facebook blocks Britain First, a far-right group that has been deregistered as a political party in the United Kingdom, because leaders Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen have repeatedly violated its community standards.
District Court for the Southern District of New York
West 51st Street alley between Washburn and Xerxes avenues, Fulton, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
bilateral relations between United states and France
city in Napa County, California, United States
2018 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony
third largest island in the world by area, located in Southeast Asia
An avalanche near Entraunes in southeastern France, kills at least four people and leaves another one missing.
The European Space Agency announces a mission to study the atmospheres of exoplanets.
An overloaded bus carrying migrants from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan crashes into a light pole on the Igdir-Kars highway in Turkey and catches fire. A second bus hits some of the ejected passengers, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36 others.
During a three-week US Border Patrol Operation Sandman near Yuma, Arizona, there are 204 arrests for human smuggling.
Search and rescue personnel evacuate all 20 crew from a nearby ship.
2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
NATO and the government of Australia expel Russian diplomats. ,
Kurdish nationalist and separatist armed organization
range of organizations associated with motor vehicles, such as automobiles, trucks and motorcycles
National Security Advisor (United States)
annual film and music festival held in Austin, USA
Israel accuses Palestinian terrorists of using civilians as human shields.
The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army seizes control of Jindires in Syria's Afrin District from the Kurdish YPG.
An airstrike in Eastern Ghouta kills two women and 15 children in an underground school.
unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru
government consisting of two or more parties
Annual ranking by net worth by Forbes magazine
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of responsibility for the deaths of 16 protestors at the border with Gaza. Israel accuses Palestinian terrorists of using civilians as human shields. A video begins circulating on social media appearing to show an unarmed teenager being shot.
International Egyptian Presidential Elections
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 up to 2018
highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association
second-most populous Islamic denomination
Pulse Nightclub 1912 S. Orange Avenue Orlando, Florida, U.S.
diplomatic relations between the People's Republic of China and South Korea
Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Poland with other states
diplomatic relations between China and North Korea
Power of the president of the Unite States
People in 150 places across France take to the streets peacefully in a general strike to protest President Macron's economic reforms.
The ceremony records its lowest U.S. television audience in recorded history, according to Nielsen Holdings.
device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction
European astronomers observe the "birth" of a symbiotic X-ray binary, IGR J17329-2731, described as a transient, from the Galactic Center using INTEGRAL space telescope.
Date: 22 September 2014 – present (8 years, 4 months and 5 days)
contractual agreement not to disclose specified information
The Court of Session allows an appeal by a cross-party group of Scottish politicians seeking court permission for a referral to the European Court of Justice. The group wish for a ruling that the UK can abandon Brexit without permission from the European Union's other member states. A lower court will examine the claim.
The previous day, a Sinhalese Buddhist mob attack on Sri Lankan Muslim shops in the region of Kandy, Central Province, left a Muslim person dead.
Voters in Russia cast their votes for the President of Russia. Incumbent Vladimir Putin wins a fourth term in office, with just over 75% of the popular vote.
aerospace and defense manufacturer in the United States
elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus
collection of federal and state government laws, which regulates the conduct and organization of business corporations, generally to promote fair competition for the benefit of consumers
Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem Völuspá.
Police in London announce the arrest on March 29 of a 19-year-old man suspected of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism.
Land Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
ground warfare branch of the Democratic Republic of Congo's military forces
Turkey announces it is to send a drilling boat to disputed waters claimed by both Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.
Their car drove out of a seaside unbarricaded parking lot and off of a 75-foot cliff into the sea on March 26.
The charges relate to the January 2017 Islamophobic shooting at a mosque that Justin Trudeau described as a terrorist attack.
Protestors take to the streets in Faisalabad, Pakistan, following the rape and murder of a local university student.
The United Nations issues a report calling for an end to the nation's state of emergency, claiming it has been used to violate human rights.
An explosion at a market in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, kills one person and injures three others.
A pair of women accuse The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi of sexually abusing them in the 1990s while they were minors.
head of the state and government of Florida
California Highway Patrol search and rescue operations continue off the Californian coast for three children missing following a crash which killed five of their relatives.
sexual abuse of female athletes by people in the industry
Zhongsheng was convicted of accepting bribes totaling 1.04 billion yuan (US$160 million).
A report by Max Hill QC, an independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, reviewing the police response to the March 2017 Westminster attack, concludes that the arrests of 12 people cleared of involvement were appropriate, as was the questioning of them on their religious beliefs.
Southeastern Grocers announces a plan to file for bankruptcy and close 94 of its locations.
Gazan officials say Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian farmer on his own land in the Gaza Strip.
Toys "R" Us considers closing all its stores in the United States.
Accidents and incidents involving helicopters
South Korea and the United States reach agreements on trade and steel tariffs.
Date: 26 July 2009 – present (13 years, 6 months and 1 day)
2018 UMBC vs. Virginia men's basketball game
first-ever upset of a 1-seed by a 16-seed in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
Jordi Turull fails in the first vote to become President of the Generalitat.
President of the People's Republic of China
acquired control over a company by the purchase of its shares with borrowed money
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea
Strong tropical cyclone which affected Tonga
city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
administrative area, ceremonial county in England (excluding City of London)
The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) launches a probe into a Tesla electric car crash and fire in California.
human right to personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination
Independent investigative and prosecutorial body of the United States federal government.
The Sentencing Council for England and Wales issues new guidelines increasing the penalties for terrorist offences. , ,
capital and largest city of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Peruvian ex-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's homes are raided by police investigating Operation Car Wash. A judge orders him to remain in Peru.
Marta Rovira, who is "self-exiled" in Switzerland, does not attend.
British music journalism magazine New Musical Express (NME) issues its final print edition after 66 years, becoming a purely digital medium.
Cow vigilante violence in India since 2014
The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army rebels loot the Syrian city of Afrin.
U.S. sportswear brand Under Armour states that the personal details (including user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords) of about 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal application were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history.
The largest U.S. broadcaster, iHeartMedia, owner of 850 radio stations, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy after accumulating US$20 billion in debt.
Human rights activist Malala Yousafzai returns to her native Pakistan for the first time since being shot in October 2012 to meet with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.
The recorder of the system logged that the driver did not have their hands on the wheel at the time of the crash.
Ethnic conflict in the Kasaï region of the DRC
Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile
An under-construction pedestrian bridge over the eight-lane Tamiami Trail at Florida International University in Miami collapses killing at least six people and flattening eight cars.
NASA/ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
The second round of a general election begins in Sierra Leone with a tight race expected between the People's Party and the All People's Congress. Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in office.
city in Western Asia, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority as its capital
chemical element with the atomic number of 98
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz accuses the European Union of "double standards" and of suffering "a deficit of democracy". Poland and the European Commission are engaged in disputes over migrant quotas and proposed reform of Poland's judiciary.
2017–18 Louisville Cardinals women's basketball team
Police investigating the attack say they believe the Skripals were poisoned at Sergei Skripal's home.
magisterial document written by the pope
Uber reaches an out-of-court settlement with the victim's family.
5th generation of cellular mobile communications
geographic region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
international airport in Dublin, Ireland
In a statement to French investigating magistrates, ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy refutes corruption charges relating to alleged receipt of funding from the then President of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, in 2007.
gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing
An open letter from international politicians, activists, journalists, and academics demands an independent commission be formed to investigate the assassination of Brazilian human rights activist Marielle Franco and her driver.
An anomalous weather event caused due to dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara, leads to an orange snow blanketing several Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia.
The Russian military announces a second test of its most advanced nuclear ICBM, the RS-28 Sarmat, from a base in Plesetsk.
Manila Pavilion Hotel and Casino, Ermita, Manila, Philippines
Richmond Hwy./VA 110 at I-395, Arlington County, Virginia
standardized legal agreement to buy or sell something (usually a commodity or financial instrument) at a predetermined price (“forward price”) at a specified time (“delivery date”) in the future
Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in Veracruz.
city ​​and county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States
Award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2017
combined Field Training Exercise (FTX) conducted annually by the Republic of Korea Armed Forces and the United States Armed Forces
South Korea and North Korea agree to hold a summit in April 2018.
Violent attacks targeting farmers and farm workers in South Africa
SpaceX successfully launches Spanish communications satellite Hispasat 30W-6 into orbit on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
puppet state on the island of Cyprus, only recognised by Turkey
Toyota pulls all its self-driving cars off U.S. roads in the wake of a fatal accident involving an Uber vehicle.
cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, used by Russia
role of libertarianism in the United Kingdom
ISIL releases a statement claiming responsibility for killing or wounding 103 Iraqi soldiers within one month. The group also claims to have abducted 13 more soldiers, and destroyed 12 armoured vehicles.
Brazilian Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, calling him a "son of a dog" when he says Israeli settlers build on their land in the occupied West Bank.
bilateral relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Connecticut, the only remaining unbeaten Division I team of either sex, is the top overall seed, with Notre Dame, Louisville, and Mississippi State as the other #1 seeds.
The killing happened eight days after the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
In response to the fatal accident, Uber suspends self-driving car tests in all U.S.
Research published in the journal Nature implies the existence of a galaxy that appears to contain no dark matter, dubbed NGC1052-DF2.
buys digital magazine subscription app Texture for an undisclosed sum.
Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Section of the United States Bankruptcy Code
third major version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 orbital launch vehicle
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of responsibility for the deaths of 16 protestors at the border with Gaza.
intelligence community's previous conclusions, Russia did not have a preference for Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.
public university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Initially claimed to be californium by the smugglers, the material is later identified as a type of polystyrene sulfonate.
department in south-central France named after the river Aude
official residence and workplace of the President of the United States
Justice Michael Alexander Soole sentences Paul Moore to lifetime incarceration with a minimum imprisonment of 20 years for using his car to attack Muslims following a string of terror attacks in 2017 linked to Islamic extremism.
terror attack which occurred on 22 March 2017 in Westminster, London, England, UK
involves an elevated incidence of violent and non-violent crimes
China's "two sessions" - the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body - opens in Beijing; major announcements include an 8% rise in its military budget and a GDP growth target of around 6.5%.
events in a specific year or time period
A bushfire destroys dozens of buildings in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia.
Capital and the second biggest city in Turkey
An under-construction pedestrian bridge over the eight-lane Tamiami Trail at Florida International University in Miami collapses killing at least six people and flattening eight cars. Nine people are rescued from the rubble and taken to nearby Kendall Regional Medical Center. Two require immediate surgery; the others injured sustain non-life-threatening wounds.
Two lorry drivers receive prison terms, one of 14 years, for killing eight people when their vehicles collided with a bus on the M1 in Buckinghamshire, England, in 2017.
Police in Oslo, Norway, say that the FBI is assisting in the investigation into two forged nominations of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The impersonator allegedly used the same stolen identity twice. ,
country in the Caucasus in Eastern Europe
United States at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
urban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba
Republican Narcological Dispensary, Khatai Raion, Baku, Azerbaijan
airliner series by Airbus, shortened version of the A320 family
Vietnam-related events during the year of 2019
National Economic Council (United States)
United States government agency in the Executive Office of the President
German politician (SPD), federal minister for foreign affairs
Date: 20 February 2014 – present (8 years, 11 months, 1 week and 1 day)
New US National Security Advisor John R. Bolton says that President Donald Trump should insist on Libya-styled denuclearization for North Korea.
2016–2018 investigations involving Benjamin Netanyahu
The Russian military announces a second test of its most advanced nuclear ICBM, the RS-28 Sarmat, from a base in Plesetsk. President Vladimir Putin claimed in his March 1 state of the nation speech that the new nuclear arsenal will be impossible for U.S.-engineered technology to intercept.
landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia
A bomb detonates overnight at a FedEx facility in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
National Party politician and former Minister of Finance Steven Joyce resigns from parliament.
The prosecutor's office is investigating if the killing was "motivated by the real or supposed adherence to a religion".
Turnbull also said that Australia must retain sanctions on North Korea.
China's "two sessions" - the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body - opens in Beijing; major announcements include an 8% rise in its military budget and a GDP growth target of around 6.5%. , ,
Islamist insurgency in the DR Congo and Uganda
A same-sex couple and three of their adopted children have been found dead at the bottom of a cliff at the coast of northern California, along with the wreckage of their SUV. After further investigation, authorities eventually deduced that it was very likely that the couple, which was previously known to have abused their children, intentionally drove off the cliff with them.
discovery and exploration of outer space and celestial objects outside Earth
ongoing crisis occurring in the country of Yemen
minister in the Federal Republic of Germany
armed forces of the Syrian Interim Government
Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
The 2018 NCAA tournament begins, with the First Four starting in Dayton, Ohio.
U.S. National Economic Council director Gary Cohn announces his resignation.
multilateral free trade agreement and successor to TPP
Witnesses and Russia's Investigative Committee say the Winter Cherry complex's exits were blocked and there were no alarms during the disaster.
suppression of speech in the southwestern European country
United Kingdom government ministerial department
An alleged Senate Intelligence Committee report states that a House Intelligence Committee Republican was behind the leak to Fox News of private text messages between a Russian-connected lawyer and Senator Mark Warner, the committee vice-chairman, concerning an attempt to contact Christopher Steele, author of the Trump–Russia dossier. Committee chairman Richard Burr later denied the leak report. ,
child abuse case against the Turpins in California
Zambian Minister Bowman Lusambo is suspended by Parliament over an assault on a fellow lawmaker in October 2017.
Saudi aircraft attack Houthi targets in residential areas of Hudaydah and Sa'dah, Yemen, killing at least seven civilians.
Burmese general, acting President of Myanmar
The Royal Saudi Air Defense says it intercepted seven missiles, three of them targeting Riyadh, two targeting Jizan and one apiece targeting Najran and Khamis Mushait.
combined military forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
cape on the Atlantic coast of Florida in the United States
Approximately 3,400kg of gold ingots break free from a Nimbus Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo plane and fall onto the runway at Yakutsk Airport.
incidents characterized as inspired by Islamophobia by commentators
MMEA requests for the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency to assist in the operation.
Two women who were visiting inmates are thought to be among the dead.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says that Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if Iran does.
A car is deliberately driven into a group of schoolgirls in Glasgow, Scotland, injuring five.
July 2016 attempted military junta coup in Turkey
sovereign state in northern South America
1927 Lexington-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy
Peruvian Vice President Martín Vizcarra returns from Canada, where he is his nation's ambassador, in preparation to take over the Presidency.
American automotive, energy storage and solar power company
United Nations branch related to food-assistance
economic policies promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes off the coast of New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, at a depth of 35 km (22 mi). There are no reports of immediate damage. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43592321 (BBC)
escalation on the Israel–Gaza border starting in 2018
American Catholic priest (b. 1921, d. 2018)
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
The FBI believes the bombing is linked to the other bombings in the area.
opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals
The trial of Noor Salman, widow of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, hears closing arguments.
More than 140 pilot whales die in Hamelin Bay, Australia, after beaching themselves.
major international airport serving London, England, United Kingdom
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
census-designated place in Ingham County, Michigan
stadium of the Naval Academy in Annapolis
U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on US$60 billion of Chinese goods, while also limiting China's ability to invest in the U.S.
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
district in Bangladesh's Mymensingh Division
Two suicide bombers strike a Shi'ite mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, killing one person and wounding seven others. Security forces kill one bomber while the device kills the other. ISIL claims responsibility.
Ukrainian politician who was President of Ukraine
history and listing of economic sanctions imposed on North Korea
warship primarily designed to carry, support, launch, and recover naval aircraft at sea
2018 Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district special election
Eleven countries in Asia, North America, Oceania, and South America sign the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
An Israel Police anti-corruption unit questions Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara.
crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and collaborators
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
federal law enforcement organization of the United States
intentionally drove off the cliff with them
Category 4 severe tropical cyclone in 2017
The Turkish Army and Free Syrian Army seize the Kurdish stronghold of Afrin from the YPG in northern Syria, raising the Turkish flag above the city centre. A statue of the Kurdish legendary figure, Kaveh the Blacksmith, is bulldozed by Turkish-backed forces.
political and economic union of 27 European states
U.S.-based automobile manufacturer Tesla confirms that one of their Model X cars was placed into Autopilot mode moments before a fatal crash in California, United States.
This bill ensures no more shutdown threats until October 1, 2018.
society without a publicly enforced government or violently enforced political authority
Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth
A pair of women accuse The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi of sexually abusing them in the 1990s while they were minors. Kricfalusi, who was in his 40s at the time, admitted to Buzzfeed that he had an underage girlfriend during the years in question.
transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga visits separatist rebel stronghold Kidal.
Incumbent Vladimir Putin wins a fourth term in office, with just over 75% of the popular vote.
city in and county seat of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, and Maryland federated state capital city
The aircraft carrier was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.
Catholic festival to remember Joseph, husband of Mary
After struggling with debt from a leveraged buyout, Claire's files for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States.
large northside suburb of Dublin, Ireland
A Moscow court orders Ziyavudin Magomedov, one of the richest Russians, to remain in pre-trial custody until May 30.
Gazan officials say Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian farmer on his own land in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli military spokesperson said that he got too close to the border fence.
Angela Merkel is elected and sworn in for a new term as Chancellor of Germany. Olaf Scholz and Heiko Maas assume the positions of Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs respectively.
Russia holds a briefing on the case for all foreign diplomats in Moscow, where it accuses the United Kingdom of "withholding evidence."
second most important position in Saudi Arabia, second to the King
individual act constituting a serious violation of the laws of war
sovereign state situated on an island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
field of activity involving utilization of the atmosphere and outer space
Incidents involving multiple victims of firearms, not including robbery or familicide
Six alleged members of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action appear in court.
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
British multinational automotive and aerospace company
finely ground pork sausage containing cubes of lard
The visit comes amid tensions in the region with China.
2017–18 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
Parsons Green Underground station, London
terrorism-related explosion on a train at Parsons Green tube station, London, England on 15 September 2017
specialized electronic circuit; graphics accelerator
Far-right activist and journalist Lauren Southern is detained at Calais and prevented from entering the United Kingdom, with the reason given by the UK Home Office that her presence 'was not conducive to the public good'. ,
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the United States launches an investigation into potential defects in the airbag control systems of some Kia and Hyundai models.
presidential or dictatorial office without term limits
ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,500 kilometres
Legal guidelines specific to England and Wales regarding imprisonment until death
bilateral relations between United states and Poland
cessation of "non-essential" government services in the United States due to a funding lapse
deliberate use of someone else's identity, usually as a method to gain a financial advantage or obtain credit and other benefits in the other person's name, and perhaps to the other person's disadvantage or loss
The governments of China and North Korea both confirm that North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un met with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping in Beijing during the past four days.
President Ameenah Gurib leaves the office after resigning on 17 March over a credit card from a NGO scandal.
This happens after Carles Puigdemont resigns as a possible candidate, who, if elected, would have been a symbolic president with a symbolic government in Brussels.
Israel claims to have identified ten of the dead as members of terrorist organisations, and publishes a list of their names and the groups Israel says they belonged to.
Office of the United States Trade Representative
sport that is practiced between two teams of eleven players
U.S. President Donald Trump announces plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. ,
A woman in Tempe, Arizona, dies after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads. In response to the fatal accident, Uber suspends self-driving car tests in all U.S. cities as well as Toronto.
a global trend in which allegations of sexual misconduct by famous or powerful men are disclosed
Four people are killed and 16 wounded when an extremist takes hostages in Trèbes, France.
Canadian contemporary circus without performing animals
California Veterans' Home, Yountville, California, U.S.
land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces
Tumblr shuts down 84 accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency.
graphics processing unit producer Nvidia suspends all its tests of self-driving cars.
A woman in Tempe, Arizona, dies after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads.
The United States permanently downgrades their embassy in Havana, making its status 'unaccompanied', meaning a post at which no family members are permitted to reside. The status change comes after alleged health attacks.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
American agency of the Executive Branch of the Department of Transportation
Lutz Bachmann, the founder of the German nationalist group Pegida, is detained and prevented from speaking at a free speech rally at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London, at which activist Tommy Robinson is also speaking.
SPD party members approve with 66% in favour to allow to form a coalition with Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU, ending a five-month political deadlock after the federal elections.
one of the Unified Combatant Commands of the United States Armed Forces
the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples
type of substellar object larger than a gas giant
mysterious non-luminous matter (and/or radiation) comprising most of the matter in our observable universe
main airport serving the general area of Laoag City in the Philippines
Botswanan President Ian Khama steps down and hands power over to Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi.
broadcaster, iHeartMedia, owner of 850 radio stations, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy after accumulating US$20 billion in debt.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas insults U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, calling him a "son of a dog" when he says Israeli settlers build on their land in the occupied West Bank. The U.S. warns Abbas to "choose between hate and peace".
Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety
French civil aviation accident investigation agency
amateur basketball played by students of higher education institutions
modular space station in low Earth orbit
major city in Greater Manchester, England, UK
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denies White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders' claim that Russia breached any international arms control pacts, after President Vladimir Putin's March 1 speech on nuclear weapons.
A fairground ride collapses in Neuville-sur-Saône, central France.
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
An extreme far-right group claims responsibility, and the United Nations condemns the attack.
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
city in and county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States
Myanmar President Htin Kyaw resigns due to ill health.
British far-right nationalist political party
China states that North Korea is "committed to denuclearization" and willing to hold a summit with the United States.
Zuma disputes all the allegations against him.
Research vessel formerly owned by Paul Allen
Houthi forces fire several Burkan-2 ballistic missiles at targets in Saudi Arabia with at least one person, an Egyptian national, being killed in Riyadh. The Royal Saudi Air Defense says it intercepted seven missiles, three of them targeting Riyadh, two targeting Jizan and one apiece targeting Najran and Khamis Mushait.
The candidacy of Sànchez also reportedly lacks one seat for a majority.
United States Department of Homeland Security
political system of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
U.S. firearms and ammunition manufacturer Remington Arms files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after amassing US$950 million worth of debt.
On Land Day, the start of a planned six-week protest at the Israeli-Gazan border involving tens of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians and wound over 1,100 others as tens of thousands of protestors approach the border fence.
incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence
overview of mass media in the United Kingdom
British political parties with fascist and racist policies
People in 150 places across France take to the streets peacefully in a general strike to protest President Macron's economic reforms. Railways, airways, schools and power generation are affected.
supermarket portfolio headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida
Without water or food, the people from the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were en route to the United States.
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Security forces kill one bomber while the device kills the other.
Although the prediction remains highly uncertain, the station may impact around Africa.
Date: 26 February – 10 March 2018 (UTC+05:30)
capital and largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria
The 2018 Major League Baseball season begins.
overview about Poland in the European Union
Committee chairman Richard Burr later denied the leak report.
A roadside bomb in Syria kills one British and one U.S.
political opposition research report regarding the 2016 US election
Updated analysis by the European Space Agency and Aerospace Corporation suggests that the derelict Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash on tomorrow evening or the day thereafter in the morning.
Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast.
More than 100 Russian diplomats are expelled from over 20 countries.
The parties say they have been unable to agree on human rights issues but pledge to hold more talks.
microblogging platform and social networking website
2017–18 UMBC Retrievers men's basketball team
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
American legislative committee overseeing intelligence
The US National Transportation Safety Board releases a preliminary investigative report containing new information on the accident, in which five passengers drowned when they were trapped in the wreckage.
city in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan asserts his nation will secure Northern Cyprus' access to natural hydrocarbon resources off the Cypriot coast.
state-organized genocide of Jews by Nazi regime during World War II
2018 apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis
2017–18 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team
administrative division (voblasć) in Belarus
The new legislation will increase the area of sea under state protection from 4.3% to 42.4%.
An attempted prison break and subsequent rioting and fires at a police station in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, results in at least 68 people dead.
Islamic, democratic, federal parliamentary republic
someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network; mainly practiced by younger computer enthusiasts out of personal interest
American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War
Several school districts will close on Friday due to teacher protests against the bill.
The government of Russia claims that United Kingdom police searched an Aeroflot Airbus jet at Heathrow Airport arriving from Moscow.
strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates
This weather event happens roughly every five years; a similar event occurred in Siberia in 2007.
Two men are rescued from a capsized dredger off Malaysia after 50 hours in an air pocket in the engine room. The death toll so far is nine, with rescue efforts underway to search for more survivors.
kind of extradition within the European Union
bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States
combined law enforcement agencies of the Netherlands
detecting planets located outside the Solar System
executive department of the U.S. federal government
Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says white South African farmers could receive fast-track visas on "humanitarian grounds" amid calls to transfer land ownership from white to black farmers, and fears over the number of racially-motivated farm killings.
semi-annual conference in Salt Lake City
Researchers publish observations of a possible nova (ASASSN-18fv) in the constellation Carina. ,
As workers attempt to clean up an oil spill, a fire breaks out off the coast of Borneo near Balikpapan, Indonesia, killing at least two fishermen.
The bank's Iranian chairman Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad was arrested and charged in the United States earlier this week, accused of breaching United States sanctions against Iran.
self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
Date: 4 October 2017 11:40 to 14:58 (local time)
authorities say the completion of the United States missile defense complex in Poland, part of a NATO project, will be delayed until 2020.
right to communicate one's opinions and ideas and right to speak
Trump calls the digital currency, launched last month, an "attempt to circumvent U.S.
mob attacks in the name of "cow protection"
current rise in Earth's average temperature and related large-scale shifts in weather patterns
Authorities announce that the summit between the governments of North Korea and South Korea will take place on April 27, 2018.
American radio host and conspiracy theorist (born 1974)
United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
national crime information for the People's Republic of China
act in which an individual kills one or more other persons as well as oneself
international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities
South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority Director Shaun Abrahams says former President Jacob Zuma will be prosecuted for corruption, relating to a R30 billion arms deal in the late 1990s.
City in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Saint Petersburg
Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
Kricfalusi, who was in his 40s at the time, admitted to Buzzfeed that he had an underage girlfriend during the years in question.
The Spanish National Police Corps arrest the two Mossos d'Esquadra and Asia History academic, Josep Lluís Alay, who accompanied Puigdemont in the van at the moment he was detained in Germany amid a crime of concealment.
Polish and U.S. authorities say the completion of the United States missile defense complex in Poland, part of a NATO project, will be delayed until 2020.
city in Alaska, United States of America
unitary parliamentary representative democracy
Palestinian Sunni-Islamist organization that governs the Gaza strip, with an associated military wing. The group is recognized as a terrorist organization.
physical property of matter that quantitatively expresses the common notions of hot and cold
three channels in Denmark connecting the Baltic Sea to the North Sea
United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
United States federal district court of Connecticut
public research university in University Park, Florida, United States
2018 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board
upper house of the United States Congress
humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate
South Korea and the United States announce that the Foal Eagle and Key Resolve military drills will start on April 1 and last for four weeks.
9th president of the International Olympic Committee since 2013
University Park and Sweetwater, Florida, U.S.
List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
Turkey calls a statement of European Union support for Greek Cypriots in a dispute over offshore resources "unacceptable".
Tesla's Autopilot system is not intended to operate independently and as such the driver is meant to have their hands on the wheel at all times.
city in and county seat of King County, Washington, United States
European Union lawmakers strike a deal on opening up the 3.6 and 26 GHz bandwidths by 2020 to make room for the new 5G network.
A same-sex couple and three of their adopted children have been found dead at the bottom of a cliff at the coast of northern California, along with the wreckage of their SUV.
type of priest in Melchizedek priesthood of the Latter Day Saints
2017 police killing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
flight by an aircraft with no intermediate stops
American conservative cable television news channel
federal state, capital and largest city of Germany
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In a message on Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. will apply a tax on cars made in the European Union if the E.U. "further" increases tariffs.
groupings of highly centralized criminal enterprises
cruise line brand founded in Norway and based in Miami, Florida
title given to some men within the church of Latter Day Saints
automobile capable of traveling without human input
Sudan, the last known male Northern white rhinoceros, dies in captivity, leaving two females as the only surviving members of the subspecies.
ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria since 2011
Spanish NGO, the aim of which is to save lives at sea
U.S. District judge George B. Daniels of the District Court for the Southern District of New York has rejected the government of Saudi Arabia’s request to throw out lawsuits claiming the nation helped plan the September 11 attacks.
city in Ingham County, Eaton County and Clinton County, Michigan, USA and Michigan federated state capital city
Asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2018
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Knoxville, Tennessee
Greek-Russian businessman and politician
full-size crossover utility vehicle developed by Tesla Motors
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia
Two suicide bombers strike a Shi'ite mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, killing one person and wounding seven others.
city in Broward County, Florida, United States
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States federal district court in New York (U.S. state)
Police in the Philippines fatally shoot 13 suspected drug dealers in Bulacan.
The tariffs will take effect on March 23.
continent on the Earth's northwestern quadrant, spanning from the Arctic Archipelago to the Panama Isthmus
SS paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany
overview of the economy of the United Kingdom
The U.S. Department of Justice submits a regulation to ban bump stocks, a modification to semi-automatic guns that allows the user to fire at a faster rate.
On the final day of the election, Egypt's National Election Authority says it will fine abstaining voters.
Turkey responds, calling the report "biased" and "unacceptable".
constituent country of the United Kingdom
interim government in Western Asia, governing West Bank Areas A and B since 1994 and, until 2006, the Gaza Strip
Prime Minister of Luxembourg and President of the European Commission (born 1954)
law enforcement agency in Miami, Florida
aerobatics display team of the Royal Air Force
capital and most populous city of Russia
official currency of the United Kingdom and other territories
45th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (2017-2021)
inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled
head of debate oversight in the European Union legislature
city in East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
systematic or threatened use of violence to create a general climate of fear
any media encoded in machine-readable formats
The Austin Police Department believes it is connected to the other parcel bombings, but do not believe it to be connected to the bomb threat leveled at the SXSW festival.
Nine people are rescued from the rubble and taken to nearby Kendall Regional Medical Center.
city in Kemerovo Oblast in the Asiatic part of Russia
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
A student shoots his parents dead in a dorm at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service
fire and rescue service in north west England
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas insults U.S.
Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from Greenland dates an eruption on Eldgjá volcano in Iceland.
In Austin, Texas, a fourth bomb detonates, injuring two men.
diplomatic relations between Australia and the Republic of South Africa
former air warfare branch of Afghanistan's armed forces
U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he is replacing David Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs and will nominate Ronny Jackson, who is currently the President's Physician, to fill the position.
Anthony Sablan Apuron, the former Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Agaña, Guam is found guilty on charges of the sexual abuse of minors by a tribunal. He is suspended from the exercise of his authority over the archdiocese.
overview of immigration to the United States
A bus plunges into a ravine in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, killing at least 38 people, mostly students.
headquarters of the United States Department of Defense; named after the shape of the building, a polygon with five (greek: penta) sides
control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) expands the search area to 560 square nautical miles for nine crewmen missing since March 21 from a capsized sand dredger off the coast of Malaysia.
Violence breaks out as protesters storm an event organized by the King's College London Libertarian Society which featured Yaron Brook (Ayn Rand Institute) and the antifeminist YouTuber Sargon of Akkad.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says that Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act of 1939 during two 2017 television interviews.
The police chief warns residents that while they believe the bomber is deceased, he may have sent more packages before his death.
Israel admits for the first time that it carried out an airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, on 6 September 2007.
nuclear research sites and processing facilities of Iran
armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between North Vietnam and South Vietnam
The Putin administration closes the United States consulate in Saint Petersburg and expels 60 U.S.
sovereign state in Oceania, situated on an archipelago
Spouse of the 9th Prime Minister of Israel
Pentagon spokesman Major David Eastburn says this announcement will have no immediate practical effect for the military which will continue to recruit and retain transgender people in accordance with current law.
Sanchez in Boston, Massachusetts, approves an extradition request from the government of Guatemala for Juan Alicio Samayoa Cabrera, who is wanted for trial for war crimes.
An Indian court convicts eleven Hindus of murdering a Muslim man they discovered transporting beef, sentencing them to life.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges U.S. President Donald Trump to be cautious in North Korea talks. Turnbull also said that Australia must retain sanctions on North Korea.
After a series of allegations of sexual misconduct against co-founder Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company files for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2010s migrant crisis in the European Union
Updated analysis by the European Space Agency and Aerospace Corporation suggests that the derelict Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash on tomorrow evening or the day thereafter in the morning. Although the prediction remains highly uncertain, the station may impact around Africa.
Catalan political activist and language teacher
fighter aircraft family by McDonnell Douglas
diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Turkey
President Vladimir Putin claimed in his March 1 state of the nation speech that the new nuclear arsenal will be impossible for U.S.-engineered technology to intercept.
satellite constellation designed for telecommunications and data backhaul from remote locations
Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, leader and deputy of the British far-right organization Britain First, are convicted of hate crimes for posting things deemed offensive online.
Iran, Iraq, and Turkey Middle East or Western Asia
Golding is sentenced to 36 weeks in prison and Fransen to 18 weeks in prison for promoting Islamophobic activities and harassment.
Minister in the Government of New Zealand
In response to the UK's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the Russian Federation expels 23 British diplomats, closes the British Council in Russia and closes the Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Saint Petersburg.
United Nations body tasked with the promotion of human rights
major international sport event for people with disabilities
supreme court in the European Union, part of the Court of Justice of the European Union
person who imitates or copies the behaviour or appearance of another
fascist, antisemitic, nationalist, anti-communist, totalitarian ideology of the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945
presence of an unwanted constituent, harmful substance or impurity in a material, physical body, or environment
American politician and businessman (born 1963)
rotating circumstellar disk of dense gas surrounding a young newly formed star
After further investigation, authorities eventually deduced that it was very likely that the couple, which was previously known to have abused their children, intentionally drove off the cliff with them.
Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer
Economic sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and other nations
Clara Ponsatí i Obiols, fugitive ex-Minister of Education of Catalonia, hands herself over to Police Scotland.
settlement and raion in Baku, Azerbaijan
U.S.-based automobile manufacturer Tesla confirms that one of their Model X cars was placed into Autopilot mode moments before a fatal crash in California, United States. Tesla's Autopilot system is not intended to operate independently and as such the driver is meant to have their hands on the wheel at all times. The recorder of the system logged that the driver did not have their hands on the wheel at the time of the crash.
A Chinese court sentences Zhang Zhongsheng, the former Vice Mayor of Lüliang, Shanxi, to death. Zhongsheng was convicted of accepting bribes totaling 1.04 billion yuan (US$160 million).
A set of medical symptoms of unknown origin affecting U.S. and Canada government personnel.
Rebels agree with the Syrian government and Russia for the displaced people to be exiled in Idlib Governorate.
ceremonial county of England (use Q21694746 for administrative unitary authority)
intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states
Postal ballots of the 2018 SPD coalition party member vote are due.
British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities
aims to ensure a consistent approach to sentencing, demystify court processes
American businessman and convicted felon
The final vote could still be determined by a recount if at least three voters in each precinct petition for one.
A boat capsizes in Nawabshah, Pakistan, killing eight people.
capital and the largest city of Afghanistan
Mark Anthony Conditt, the main suspect in the serial bombings, dies after detonating a bomb in his vehicle while being pursued by Austin police officers. The police chief warns residents that while they believe the bomber is deceased, he may have sent more packages before his death.
lower house of the Parliament of South Australia
public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States
successful 2016 US presidential campaign
Officials say the collapse would have been difficult to predict.
act of befriending and connecting with a child with the objective of sexual abuse
U.S. President Donald Trump announces plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018
A partially-constructed building collapses onto a truck in Jacobs, Durban, South Africa, killing at least three people and hospitalising six more.
Nigerian jihadist terrorist organization
The Law Society of England and Wales issues a report claiming that Turkey has prosecuted 1,539 lawyers since the 2016 coup d'état attempt. The report states that 580 people still remain incarcerated with 103 more having received prison sentences.
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland sentences Maryland resident Mohamed Elshinawy to a 20-year term for financing ISIS.
Three of them, larger than Earth, are also discovered around the dwarf star K2-155.
Yemeni forces launch a missile attack on Aramco's HQ in Najran, Saudi Arabia.
South Africa's head of state and head of government
Hyperbolic asteroids A/2017 U7 and A/2018 C2 are announced, although their orbit suggests they are not interstellar in origin.
North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong-ho will visit Sweden and meet with Deputy Prime Minister Margot Wallström.
second-largest city in Florida, United States of America
It is the first death of a British soldier fighting ISIL.
U.S. federal executive department in charge of law enforcement
armed conflicts that started from January 2012
Rif Dimashq offensive (February 2018–present)
second-largest city in Texas, United States
method of electronically exchanging digital messages between people over a network
A fire breaks out in the upper floors of a hotel and apartment block building in Ballymun, Ireland, near Dublin Airport.
mass shooting at gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes off the coast of New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, at a depth of 35 km (22 mi).
law firm and corporate service provider based in Panama
Voters in Russia cast their votes for the President of Russia.
The European Court of Human Rights says that Turkish authorities violated the rights of journalists Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay when they were arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup.
operation that has led to numerous investigations into Petrobras regarding alleged corruption and payment of kickbacks
A partially-constructed building collapses onto a truck in Jacobs, Durban, South Africa, killing at least three people and hospitalising six more. ,
(Sentencing Council for England and Wales)
process of returning an asset, an item, or a person to its owner or their place of origin or citizenship
Farina, an investigation of drug trafficking, is the subject of a freedom of speech debate after a court halted sales ahead of a libel case.
international political scandal exposing the possible funding of Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign by Gaddafi's regime
A car is deliberately driven into a group of schoolgirls in Glasgow, Scotland, injuring five. Police launch an attempted murder probe.
California Highway Patrol search and rescue operations continue off the Californian coast for three children missing following a crash which killed five of their relatives. Their car drove out of a seaside unbarricaded parking lot and off of a 75-foot cliff into the sea on March 26.
annual award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
German politician (SPD) and 9th Federal Chancellor of Germany (since 2021)
automotive brand manufacturing subsidiary of Geely
The Lansing, Michigan, Catholic Diocese's insurance company files a civil suit against Rev.
Outgoing Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signs a new law which creates nine marine reserves.
continent, mainly on the Earth's southwestern quadrant
The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is projected to be the largest party in the Italian Parliament with 32% of the vote.
Saudi crown prince and Minister of Defense (born 1985)
town and administrative center of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast in central Russia
Date: 6 September 2017 – 1 June 2018 (8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
service provided for the purpose of preventing collisions between aircraft, and on the manoeuvring area between aircraft and obstructions; and expediting and maintaining an orderly flow of air traffic
2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony
Date: 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
head of state and head of government of the Philippines
The Court of Session allows an appeal by a cross-party group of Scottish politicians seeking court permission for a referral to the European Court of Justice.
in association football, match official that reviews decisions made by the head referee with the use of video footage
Police in Germany announce that earlier this week they detained four Syrian nationals on suspicion of arson and attempted murder over a Turkish Muslim mosque firebombing in Ulm.
Toys "R" Us announce that they will close down all of their stores in the United Kingdom after rescue talks fail, resulting in the loss of about 3,000 jobs.
Area set aside in public places for the purpose of political protesting
The death toll so far is nine, with rescue efforts underway to search for more survivors.
partially recognized country in southeastern Europe
process of evaluating and approving potential suppliers as well as measuring and monitoring current suppliers for performance and compliance, in order to reduce costs, mitigate risk and drive continuous improvement
police department of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: 13 November 1996 – present (26 years)
naval warfare branch of Argentina's armed forces
Advertisers remove their ads from InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channels.
free app and website that tracks diet and exercise
118th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
electronic warfare launched by Iranian military forces
Turkish offensive against the SDF in Afrin
diplomatic relations between the French Republic and North Korea
retailer of accessories and jewelry to girls and young women
policy on permits required to enter the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies
Apple Inc. buys digital magazine subscription app Texture for an undisclosed sum.
Police in Germany announce that earlier this week they detained four Syrian nationals on suspicion of arson and attempted murder over a Turkish Muslim mosque firebombing in Ulm. Police say the attack "may have been politically motivated".
Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
senior United States government position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation
most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States under the Trump Administration
One aircraft took off over the top of the other one.
Brazilian politician and activist (1979–2018)
New Democracy, Communist Party, Golden Dawn and the Union of Centrists voted against the government-sponsored bill.
national governing body for figure skating
United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee
National Olympic and Paralympic Committee
Federal Judge Michael P. Shea of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in Hartford, Connecticut awards an injured passenger US$272,000 against Caribbean Airlines over the July 2011 airliner crash in Guyana.
Boeing loses a case in Copenhagen city court against the Danish Ministry of Defense over access to documents used in the purchase of Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters in preference over Boeing F/A 18 Super Hornets.
Police in Oslo, Norway, say that the FBI is assisting in the investigation into two forged nominations of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lawyer, former official of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
while armed with a gun, after his side had a late goal ruled out for offside.
United States top collegiate-level basketball tournament for 2018
Date: 30 March 2018 – 27 December 2019 (1 year, 8 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
city in and capital of Connecticut, United States
regional jet designed and built by Antonov
Professional association of solicitors in England and Wales
As workers attempt to clean up an oil spill, a fire breaks out off the coast of Borneo near Balikpapan, Indonesia, killing at least two fishermen. Search and rescue personnel evacuate all 20 crew from a nearby ship.
The strike allegedly killed ten North Korean workers.
1969 transport aircraft family by Antonov
information office documenting human rights abuses in the Syrian Civil War
soldier and injures five more coalition personnel.
Researchers publish observations of a possible nova (ASASSN-18fv) in the constellation Carina.
molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses
The European Union calls on Turkey to cease military actions aimed at enforcing Turkish claims to disputed natural gas deposits.
instrument in outer space for observing distant space objects
Swiss voters reject a proposal to scrap the television licence fee that provides the majority of funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
history and demographics of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon
2017–18 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
List of school shootings in the United States
List of diplomatic missions of the United States
develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceuticals licensed for use as medications
He is suspended from the exercise of his authority over the archdiocese.
collision between an airborne animal (usually a bird or bat) and a human-made vehicle, especially aircraft; the term is also used for bird deaths resulting from collisions with human-made structures such as power lines, towers and wind turbines
capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada
Federal drug policy of the United States
Nationwide framework regarding the abuse of drugs in the United States
form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain
excavation of sediment, usually under water
specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health
capital of the Greater Poland Voivodeship in west-central Poland
Republicans raise concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on metal imports.
electrically neutral entity consisting of more than one atom (n > 1); rigorously, a molecule, in which n > 1 must correspond to a depression on the potential energy surface that is deep enough to confine at least one vibrational state
locality on the south-west coast of Western Australia, named after the nearby bay
giant planet which mainly consist of light elements such as hydrogen and helium
Both the bomb's point of origin and intended destination were in Austin.
ArXiv publishes research that a gas giant may be orbiting a brown dwarf.
2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, US
bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt
overview of political matters in the United States of America
declaration of independence on October 27
South African officials determine that the country's ongoing listeriosis outbreak—which is already the world's deadliest listeriosis outbreak, killing over 180 people and sickening 1,000 more—was caused by contaminated "Polony" processed meat.
law enforcement agency in California, USA
capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States
tariffs imposed during the presidency of Donald Trump
The packages were left off at three separate locations and were not placed there by any delivery service, police say.
A car bomb is driven into a crowd outside the Ghazi Muhammad Ayub Khan Stadium in Lashkar Gah, Helmund, before detonating. At least 13 people are killed.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges U.S. President Donald Trump to be cautious in North Korea talks.
federal city in and former capital of Russia
head of state and head of government of the United States of America
border barrier between the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Israel
Martha's Catholic Church in Okemos, a Lansing suburb, for the embezzlement of more than $5 million from his parish.
bilateral relations between Austria and Israel
Former Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are taken to a hospital in critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
bilateral relations between China and Japan
A private plane from Sharjah to Istanbul crashes in the Zagros Mountains in Iran, killing Turkish socialite Mina Başaran along with, according to Iranian state media, ten other people on board.
Florida's House of Representatives votes 67–50 to approve a gun and school safety bill that would raise the age to buy firearms from 18 to 21, sending the bill to Governor Rick Scott to sign into law.
diplomatic relations between Australia and North Korea
2018 New York City Eurocopter AS350 crash
urban-type settlement in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
state electoral district of Perth, Western Australia
South Korean accident investigation agency for air and rail disasters
hockey game played in Annapolis, Maryland
upper house of the Kentucky General Assembly
Skripal was granted refugee status in the UK following a "spy swap" deal between the UK and Russia in 2010.
2017–18 Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball team
Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit demands Guatemala reverse its decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
A car bomb blast in Mogadishu, near the Weheliye hotel in the Somali capital, kills at least 14 people and injures 10 others.
Nuclear power station in the United Arab Emirates
overview about the asylum in the United States
The exoplanet, designated OGLE-2017-BLG-1522Lb, orbits its host at a distance of 0.59 AU and could be the first known gas giant to have formed inside the protoplanetary disk of a brown dwarf.
Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution
unofficial title held by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
an unofficial title of the top leader of China, usually the General Secretary or Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs detains Ziyavudin Magomedov, his brother Magomed Magomedov, and the chief executive of the Summa Group on charges of embezzlement of public funds and criminal association.
Turkey has been using its Navy to prevent exploration by Cypriot vessels.
capital city in Central Province, Sri Lanka
form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment
type of assault that typically involves the perpetrator firing a weapon from within a motor vehicle and then fleeing
city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States of America
Saudi war against Houthis in Yemen launched in 2015
sovereign state situated on several islands in Southeast Asia
A court in Quebec City accepts guilty pleas to six murders and six attempted murders tendered by Alexandre Bissonnette on March 26 and lifts restrictions on reporting the pleas after he passes a psychiatric evaluation.
Occupied pods attached to the ride fall to the ground, ejecting some riders, with one man dead.
series of nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union and Russia
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
aircraft carrier to visit a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War in 1975.
head of government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
national space program of the People's Republic of China
military campaign against Islamist extremist militant groups in Syria by USA, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE
country in Northwestern Europe with territories in the Caribbean
alloy made by combining iron and other elements
constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
damaged offshore oil pipeline in Indonesia
The Independent claims the Metropolitan Police misidentified material in convicted bomber Ahmad Hassan's possession as not related to ISIS when in fact it was produced by the group. The newspaper says it has submitted evidence to the Central Criminal Court that could affect Hassan's sentence.
Two men accused of an attempt to assassinate Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah die in a shootout with security forces. Two Hamas security personnel also die.
United States government investigative agency for civil transportation accidents
American sports clothing and accessories company
honorary title given after leaving an organization to a person who has distinguished themselves through their work
The Syrian Army declares that the Eastern Ghouta towns of Arbin, Zamalka, Jobar, and Ein Tarma are vacated of rebel fighters.
She is succeeded ad interim by Vice President Barlen Vyapoory.
A United Kingdom panel, chaired by the former head of the Home civil service, Lord Bob Kerslake, issues a report which concludes that firefighters were prevented from attending the scene of the bombing for two hours.
The Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile completes its probe into the March 2016 near-miss between two commercial aircraft at Basel/Mulhouse Airport, concluding miscommunication between an air crew and air traffic control was to blame.
Widespread outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes food poisoning
A car bomb is driven into a crowd outside the Ghazi Muhammad Ayub Khan Stadium in Lashkar Gah, Helmund, before detonating.
2018 attempted murder in Salisbury, England, United Kingdom
American pornographic actress and director
Reactions to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
The field for the NCAA Division I Men's Tournament is announced.
firearms and ammunition manufacturer Remington Arms files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after amassing US$950 million worth of debt.
Leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, first leader of Asian descent
A Eurocopter 120 helicopter carrying five people crashes into the sea near Hardy Reef off the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia.
polar continent in the Southern Hemisphere
President Donald Trump issues an executive order banning U.S.
2018 and 2022 student-led demonstration in Washington, DC
American manufacturer of firearms and ammunition
Italian politician and media tycoon (born 1936)
2017 attack on Nigerien and US soldiers by Islamist militants in Tongo Tongo, Niger
upper house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Florida
theory that the Moon formed out of the debris left over from a collision between Earth and an astronomical body the size of Mars, approximately 4.5 billion years ago
scandal involving Donald Trump and pornographic actress Stormy Daniels around sexual relations and an alleged hush payment by lawyer Michael D. Cohen in 2016
A British yachtsman falls overboard from Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag.
The Superleague Greece season is suspended indefinitely by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports after PAOK FC owner Ivan Savvidis invaded the pitch with several bodyguards during a match against AEK Athens F.C.
head of state and head of government of Burma
Salafi jihadist organization founded in 1988
Swiss voters also approve the right of the federal government to levy VAT and direct federal tax until 2025.
Prosecutor General Tarek Saab says an investigation into what has happened would begin immediately.
entities from trading in the Venezuelan Petro cryptocurrency.
eliminating China's presidential term limits
Furthermore, a 3D climate simulation was created to find out if K2-155d has water.
The government of Poland and the European Union are locked in a dispute over planned judicial reforms.
Two students are reported injured; the shooter is killed by police.
U.S. President Donald Trump issues an executive order banning U.S. entities from trading in the Venezuelan Petro cryptocurrency. Trump calls the digital currency, launched last month, an "attempt to circumvent U.S. sanctions".
three covert meetings of North Korea's Kim Jong-un and China's Xi Jinping in 2018
administrative divison (voblasć) in Belarus
person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities
explosive device that gets its destructive force from nuclear reactions
The attacker, which had Islamist sympathies according to the authorities, was shot dead.
NATO and the government of Australia expel Russian diplomats.
If confirmed it would be the first such galaxy discovered.
The USS Carl Vinson enters Vietnam's Da Nang Port, becoming the first U.S. aircraft carrier to visit a Vietnamese port since the Vietnam War in 1975. The visit comes amid tensions in the region with China.
motorway in central England connecting London and Leeds
Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–2023)
imperial garden in central Beijing, China
US President Donald Trump issues an order banning "transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition" from the military.
82nd season of top-tier football league in Greece
metallic chemical element of silvery appearance with symbol Al and atomic number 13
summit between Korean peninsula leaders Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in
The USS Carl Vinson enters Vietnam's Da Nang Port, becoming the first U.S.
Far-right activist and journalist Lauren Southern is detained at Calais and prevented from entering the United Kingdom, with the reason given by the UK Home Office that her presence 'was not conducive to the public good'.
Date: 18 February – 14 April 2018 (1 month, 3 weeks and 6 days)
autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark on world's largest island by the same name
all branches of national and regional governments of the Russian Federation
Houthi forces fire several Burkan-2 ballistic missiles at targets in Saudi Arabia with at least one person, an Egyptian national, being killed in Riyadh.
List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Nations
rights claimed for women and girls worldwide
The Board reports the Airbus crew misunderstood the full meaning of the specific ground control runway instruction.
sportswear brand Under Armour states that the personal details (including user names, email addresses and scrambled passwords) of about 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal application were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history.
offices held over time by the head of government of Germany
city in Riverside County, California, United States
U.S. Department of Justice immigration Judge Jose A.
large city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Poland and the European Commission are engaged in disputes over migrant quotas and proposed reform of Poland's judiciary.
attack in which the attacker knows they will die
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn sacks Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Smith after he called for a second referendum on European Union membership.
American multinational delivery services company
city in Riverside County, Southern California, United States
General Directorate of Security (Turkey)
Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Indian reserve force assisting the State/Union Territories in police operations to maintain law and order and counter insurgency
The government of Myanmar agrees to repatriate 374 Rohingya refugees from a list of 8,000 submitted by the government of Bangladesh. Myanmar's authorities blamed their Bangladeshi counterparts for the slow process, citing "incomplete" information for many of the refugees on the list.
city in and county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States
A shooting occurs at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland.
The fire affects the top seven floors of the building and two floors of apartments, without casualties.
term in Chinese referring to closely linked organizations; associated with different movements
body that determines the rules of association football
human settlement in United States of America
city in and county seat of Snohomish County, Washington, United States of America
United States civil space and aeronautics agency
study of genes, heredity, and variation in humans
United States Senator from North Carolina
precipitation in the form of ice crystal flakes
Turkish police discover 1.4 kilograms (3.1 lb) of radioactive-labelled material in a car in Ankara.
mean distance between Earth and the Sun, common length reference in astronomy
Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide 10-day state of emergency, the first since 2011, in an effort to calm communal tensions.
A second bus hits some of the ejected passengers, killing at least 17 people and wounding 36 others.
Two require immediate surgery; the others injured sustain non-life-threatening wounds.
measure of earthquake size, in terms of the energy released
Turkic ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and Northern Cyprus
Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
The group also claims to have abducted 13 more soldiers, and destroyed 12 armoured vehicles.
U.S. President Donald Trump fires Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, moving to replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
National U.S. historic landmark mansion estate
Date: 7 April 2013 – 14 April 2018 (5 years and 1 week)
international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow & ice sports
Boeing argued the evaluation process used in the purchase had been "flawed".
Wehrle already faces six criminal counts for using embezzled funds to pay for home construction (appraised for much more than a $1 million), maintenance, and purchases.
diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States
Evacuations of 7,500 people from rebel-held Harasta, Eastern Ghouta begin.
ongoing political conflict over Catalan independence
field of astronomy concerned with recording data about the observable universe
practice of requiring citizens to register to vote and to go to their polling place or vote on election day
American serial child sexual abuser and physician‏
involvement of Turkey in the Syrian civil war
archaeological study of human interaction with the sea
The group wish for a ruling that the UK can abandon Brexit without permission from the European Union's other member states.
"Gaudete et exsultate" ('Rejoice and Be Glad'; from Matthew 5:12) is the third apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, dated on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, and is subtitled "on the call to holiness in today's world".
Top Association Football League in Greece
The report states that 580 people still remain incarcerated with 103 more having received prison sentences.
impact of a ship on seabed or waterway side
ongoing war in Eastern Europe since 2014
The Hellenic Parliament passes a bill legalising the use of medical cannabis in Greece.
head of state of the RSFSR (office established in 1991) and Russia
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Florida, United States
countryside and suburban area in southwestern Syria
sport which combines swimming, cycling and distance running
scheduled international passenger flight by US-Bangla Airlines
Iraqi insurgency since the defeat of ISIL
chemical compound with raw molecular formula H₂O; main constituent of the fluids of most living organisms
Olaf Scholz and Heiko Maas assume the positions of Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs respectively.
Myanmar's authorities blamed their Bangladeshi counterparts for the slow process, citing "incomplete" information for many of the refugees on the list.
head of state and of government of the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky
A search and rescue operation launches, with one ship diverting from over 400 nautical miles away.