Keeping things in perspective
January
- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Dies
- Cristiano Ronaldo wins the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or
- Ukraine Crisis escalates
- Sochi Winter Olympics take place
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears
- Ebola Outbreak
- Boko Haram abduct schoolgirls
- 12 Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest
- 238 miners are killed by an underground explosion and mine fire in Soma Mine, Turkey
- Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest
- 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down
- Rafael Nadal wins his ninth French Open title
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes (presumed shot down by either pro-Russian separatists or the Ukrainian militia), killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board
- Israeli Palestinian conflict flares up yet again
- Ebola outbreak death toll exceeds 1000
- Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the international response to Ebola “irresponsible” and “slow and derisory”
- World Health Organisation estimate that 21,000 people have now died from Ebola virus
- Scotland votes 'NO' in a referendum deciding whether or not to stay with the United Kingdom
- ISIS seize large regions to form Islamic caliphate
- Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
- World oil prices plunge
- Philae lands on comet 67P [Churyumov-Gerasimenko]
- AirAsia flight QZ8501 carrying 162 people crashes
- Italian ferry carrying 478 people caught fire north-west of Corfu
'The international news agenda tends to focus on things that go wrong. Here we present a selection of the year’s good news stories, as a counterbalance to the ravages of war, violence, disease, natural disasters, corruption et al'
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/31/2014-not-such-a-bad-year-after-all
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