January 27 - Juan Orlando Hernández is elected to be Honduras' new President.Police officers disarmed explosive devices in gunman's bag. Four people are killed including the gunman.
January 25 - A shooting breaks out at a mall in Maryland.January 10 - Former Prime Minister of Poland Zbigniew Messner died from a heart attack.Several people are killed because of the cold weather. Record-breaking weather is recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. January 6 - Severe cold weather hits the upper area of North America, which includes Canada and the United States.January 1 - Bill de Blasio becomes Mayor of New York City.January 1 - Greece assumes the six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union.January 1 - Latvia begins using the Euro.Ice on the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia during the 2014 North American polar vortex. The 2014 Winter Olympics took place in Sochi, Southern Russia, in February.Įvents January The 2014 Commonwealth Games took place in Glasgow, Scotland and the 2014 Asian Games took place in Incheon, South Korea. In Sport, the year saw the Germany national football team win the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.In science, the year's biggest achievement was landing a spacecraft on a comet, which was done in November by the Philae probe as part of the Rosetta mission.A continuing trend of the year was the selfie. In July and August, the "Ice Bucket Challenge" was a trend of pouring cold water over people's heads for charity.Another Malaysian-based airline, "AirAsia" also suffered a disaster at the end of the year, as Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared off Borneo and was later found to have crashed, killing all 162 people on board. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine in July, killing all people on board. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 goes missing in March on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and has, as of the end of 2014, not been found. Malaysia Airlines was involved in two air disasters in 2014.2014 also saw the outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, infecting and killing thousands of people, and leading to a massive humanitarian crisis in the region.In Nigeria, hundreds of girls were abducted in April by Boko Haram.Separately, war broke out between Israel and the Gaza Strip in July and August In the Middle East, the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant got involved in civil wars in Syria and Iraq.War erupted in Eastern Ukraine after the Pro- EU Euromaidan protests toppled President Viktor Yanukovych and separatists declared independence in the East, followed by a referendum in Crimea in support of joining Russia.In 2014, the news was dominated by wars and conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, South Sudan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.Map showing locations of the 2014 Ebola outbreak.