Portal:Current events/2014 August 22

Current events of August 22, 2014 (2014-08-22) (Friday)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from landslides in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture rises to 39, (Boston.com)
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
  • The bodies and ashes of twenty Malaysian victims who died when the flight was shot down over the Ukraine in July have returned to Kuala Lumpur. (AP)
• At least 25 people are killed and 50 injured after two buses crash in the south of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. (RT)

Law and crime

• The murder conviction of David Eastman for allegedly killing former Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester is quashed after Eastman has served a 19-year prison sentence. (Brisbane Times)