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Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue…
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed while reporting on an Israel Defense Forces raid o
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferome…
The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*
The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russ…
Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claimed full control of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege
On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old former student of the school, fatally shot 19 st…
An 18-year old gunman shot and killed nineteen students and two teachers in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in
A 4.0-kilometre (2.5 mi) deep earthquake measuring a magnitude (Mw) of 6.2 struck southeastern Afghanistan on 22 June 2022 at 01:24:36 AFT. The earthquake had a maximum Modified Me…
An earthquake registering 6
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countr…
Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting
The Duffield Memorial is a gravesite monument located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary in Great Baddow, Essex, England. Designed by Herbert Maryon and installed in 1912, …
The Duffield Memorial (central medallion pictured), an "unusual example of Art Nouveau design in metal work", is…
The Duffield Memorial is a gravesite monument located in the churchyard of the Church of St Mary in Great Baddow, Essex, England. Designed by Herbert Maryon and installed in 1912, …
The Duffield Memorial (central medallion pictured) in Great Baddow, an "unusual example of Art Nouveau design in metal…
On August 28, 2022, a mass shooting occurred outside of a Days Inn motel in Phoenix, Arizona. The perpetrator, 24-year-old Isaiah Steven Williams, wearing tactical equipment and ar…
A mass shooting took place in Phoenix, Arizona, leaving 33 dead and five others injured.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day i…
Liz Truss (pictured) succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lif…
Queen Elizabeth II (pictured) died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland; her eldest son Charles III acceded to the throne as…
The 2022–23 Liga 1 was the 6th season of Liga 1 under its current name and the 13th season of the association football, the top Indonesian professional league for association footb…
After losing a league home match to local rivals Persebaya Surabaya, some 3,000 Arema supporters invaded the stadium's…
In October 2022, protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby declared his intentions to extend his rule by another two years instead of stepping down as promised fo…
Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby (pictured) declared his intentions to extend his rule by…
The 2022–23 Liga 1 was the 6th season of Liga 1 under its current name and the 13th season of the association football, the top Indonesian professional league for association footb…
After losing a league home match to their local rivals, Persebaya Surabaya, some 3,000 Arema supporters invaded the…
Arshad Sharif was a Pakistani journalist, writer, and news anchor. He specialized in investigative journalism and covered many political events in the country for national and inte…
Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif is shot and killed by local police in Kajiado, Kenya.
Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day i…
At 49 days, Liz Truss concluded the shortest tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
On 9 April 2021, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and the longest-serving royal consort …
The funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Zhurong is a Chinese rover on Mars, the country's first to land on another planet after it previously landed two rovers on the Moon. The rover is part of the Tianwen-1 mission to M…
China successfully lands Zhurong, the country's first Mars rover
On 22 May 2021, twenty-one professional runners died from hypothermia while competing in a government-run 100-kilometre (62 mi) trail running race held in the Yellow River Stone Fo…
Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate, which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin I…
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
The Tampere light rail, branded as Tampere Tram, is a public transport system in Tampere, Finland. In November 2016, the Tampere city council approved plans to construct a 330-mill…
The Tampere light rail officially starts operating.
Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 was a passenger flight on September 12, 2021, by a Let L-410 Turbolet plane, from Irkutsk north to Kazatjinskoje, Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, near La…
Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
Expo 2020 was a World Expo hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to…
On 3 October 2021, a Romanian private plane crashed into a building in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. All eight occupants of the aircraft were killed, including the Romanian businessman a…
Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.