Template:In the news
- Islam Karimov is re-elected President of Uzbekistan.
- In cricket, the World Cup concludes with Australia defeating New Zealand in the final.
- Twenty people, including a UN diplomat, are killed during a 12-hour siege at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- Mathematicians John F. Nash, Jr. (pictured) and Louis Nirenberg share the Abel Prize for their work on partial differential equations.
- Saudi Arabia conducts airstrikes against Houthi militants and their allies after their advance on the provisional Yemeni capital of Aden.
- Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
- Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore, dies at the age of 91.
- A solar eclipse is visible across much of Europe, with totality over the Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
Ongoing:
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Recent deaths:
Tomas Tranströmer – Dinkha IV
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