December 1, 2014,
December 1, 2014, World AIDS Day:
Researchers claim that the pandemic has reached a tipping point where the number of people receiving treatment in a year was greater than the number of new cases. (U.S. Presidential Proclamation)
December 1, 2014, Former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk becomes the second full-time President of the European Union. (EUobserver)
December 2, 2014,
December 2, 2014, The FBI launches a probe into a massive hacking attack on Sony Pictures, believing the leadership of North Korea to be responsible. (FOX News)
December 3, 2014, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant: The Lebanese government arrests a wife and daughter of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (NBC News)
December 3, 2014, The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year roundtrip mission to the asteroid (162173) 1999 JU3 to collect rock samples. (AP)
December 4, 2014, Death of Eric Garner: Protests erupt in New York City after a grand jury decides not to indict any police officers in the death of Garner. (CNN)
December 4, 2014,
December 4, 2014, Tens of thousands of people evacuate ahead of Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) which is expected to strike the Philippines. (BBC)
December 5, 2014, Release of The Pyramid
December 5, 2014, Release of Wild
December 5, 2014, The first flight test of NASA's Orion spacecraft launches successfully at 7:05 EST (12:05 UTC) and splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean at 8:29 PST (16:29 UTC). (CNN)
December 5, 2014, Bill Cosby files a counter-lawsuit against the woman who accused him of sexual assault, claiming she attempted to extort money from him. (BBC)
December 5, 2014, Rolling Stone Magazine issues a partial retraction on Sabrina Erdely's "A Rape on Campus" story after additional fact checking identifies "discrepancies" in the account of the University of Virginia young woman identified as "Jackie" who alleged that seven men raped her as she lay on broken glass during a party at U.Va.'s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012. (Rolling Stone)
December 6, 2014,
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reawakens at 8:00 PM UTC in preparation
for observing the dwarf planet Pluto and its satellites. New Horizons,
launched on January 19, 2006, will begin distant observations on January
15, 2015, culminating with its July 14, 2015 closest approach flyby. (Sky and Telescope)
December 6, 2014, 2014 hostage rescue operations in Yemen: An American civilian and a South African civilian die during an attempt to rescue them by U.S. Navy SEALs in Yemen. They were being held hostage by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (CNN)
December 6, 2014, Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby), a strong tropical cyclone, makes landfall hitting the Philippines. (BBC)
December 6, 2014, 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping: Forensic specialists at the University of Innsbruck confirm the identity of the first of the 43 missing students in Guerrero. The remains were located at a municipal dump in Cocula, Guerrero. (El Universal)
December 6, 2014, 2014 Ferguson unrest, Death of Eric Garner: Demonstrations continue for a third day in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Miami, and Washington, D.C. where protesters perform "die-ins" over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. (The New York Times)
December 6, 2014, 2014 Ferguson unrest, Death of Eric Garner: Demonstrations continue for a third day in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Miami, and Washington, D.C. where protesters perform "die-ins" over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. (The New York Times)
December 7, 2014, Mini - Series Premiere of The Red Tent
December 7, 2014, Series Premiere of The Librarians
December 7, 2014, Typhoon Hagupit: The death toll from Typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines is at least three as the storm weakens. (BBC)
December 7, 2014, A chlorine gas leak injures 19 at the Chicago's 'Furfest', a Furry convention. Police say the act was intentional. (NBC News)
December 8, 2014, Release of Into the Woods
December 8, 2014,
December 8, 2014,
December 8, 2014,
December 8, 2014, Two raging fires in Los Angeles
destroy a massive residential complex under construction, heavily
damage a building undergoing renovations, and snarl rush hour traffic. (The Hollywood Reporter)
December 8, 2014, Typhoon Hagupit: The Philippine Red Cross estimates 27 people killed in Eastern Samar province with 15 in Borongan. (Reuters via Trust)
December 8, 2014, A small plane crashes into a house in the American town of Gaithersburg, Maryland near Washington, D.C. with 5 people dead. (Sky News)
December 8, 2014, Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme: A U.S. District Judge sentences the back office director, Daniel Bonventre, to ten years. (Reuters via FOX Business)
December 8, 2014, The US Supreme Court rejects BP's challenge to their Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill settlement. (Reuters via FOX Business)
December 8, 2014, United States President Barack Obama unveils new limits on racial profiling. These new limits outlaw profiling based on race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation. (NPR)
December 8, 2014, Merck agrees to buy "superbug"-fighter Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5 billion. (FOX Business)
December 9, 2014, The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence releases a report on the use of torture by the Bush Administration-era CIA in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. (BBC)
December 9, 2014,
December 9, 2014, Nature publishes Penn State University findings of Ancient shells with 430,000-year-old engravings believed to be made by Homo erectus, changing beliefs on artistic expression and tool use by ancestors of Homo sapiens. Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois found the collection in Java in 1891 and Penn State discovered the markings in a museum in the city of Leiden. (WA Today)
December 9, 2014, The US Supreme Court rules 9–0 (Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk) in favor of Amazon.com Inc. that employees are not entitled to be paid for the time they spend undergoing security checks after their shifts. (Reuters)
December 9, 2014, The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers. (The Next Web)
December 10, 2014, Russian billionaire businessman Alisher Usmanov who bought the 1962 Nobel gold medal of scientist James Watson says that he is donating it back to Watson as a gift because the "discovery of DNA structure must belong to him". (BBC)
December 11, 2014, The
oldest time capsule in the United States is unearthed at the
Massachusetts State House. The capsule was first buried in the
cornerstone by Samuel Adams in 1795 and reburied by Henry Gardner in
1855. Wrapped in cowhide, four silver coins fell out when it was found. (ABC)
December 11, 2014,
December 11, 2014,
December 11, 2014, The American state of California prepares for its worst storm in five years with schools closed in the San Francisco Bay Area. (USA Today)
December 11, 2014, Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby): The death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rises to 18. (Phil Star)
December 11, 2014, Former British radio DJ Ray Teret is jailed for 25 years for a series of sexual assaults on 11 girls in the 1960s and 1970s conducted in association with Jimmy Saville. (Billboard)
December 11, 2014, In R. v. Fearon, the Supreme Court of Canada rules by 4–3 vote that searching for cell phones without a warrant during an arrest does not violate the Section Eight of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. (Global News)
December 11, 2014, The United States House of Representatives narrowly passes a budget spending bill to avoid a potential government shutdown. (NBC News)
December 11, 2014, The US Navy initiates the operation of laser weapons. The first use is to protect ships deployed in the Persian Gulf. (Military.com via FOX News)
December 12, 2014, Series Premiere of Marco Polo
December 12, 2014,
December 12, 2014,
December 12, 2014, Wall Street sees its worst week in three years as oil prices continue to collapse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sheds 315 points, or 1.8%, to 17280. (FOX Business)
December 12, 2014, An unknown person shoots four people outside of Rosemary Anderson High School, an alternative high school in Portland, Oregon. Police later question a 22-year-old man. (CNN)
December 12, 2014, Sony Pictures reportedly shuts production on several sets because of computer network issues regarding employee disbursement of pay following a massive computer hack. (FOX News)
December 12, 2014, Torrent site isoHunt appears to have unofficially resurrected The Pirate Bay at a site which turns out serving new content. (VB News)
December 12, 2014, Microsoft announces its upcoming Windows 10 consumer version preview for January 21. (FOX News)
December 11, 2014,
December 11, 2014,
December 11, 2014, The American state of California prepares for its worst storm in five years with schools closed in the San Francisco Bay Area. (USA Today)
December 11, 2014, Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby): The death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rises to 18. (Phil Star)
December 11, 2014, Former British radio DJ Ray Teret is jailed for 25 years for a series of sexual assaults on 11 girls in the 1960s and 1970s conducted in association with Jimmy Saville. (Billboard)
December 11, 2014, In R. v. Fearon, the Supreme Court of Canada rules by 4–3 vote that searching for cell phones without a warrant during an arrest does not violate the Section Eight of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. (Global News)
December 11, 2014, The United States House of Representatives narrowly passes a budget spending bill to avoid a potential government shutdown. (NBC News)
December 11, 2014, The US Navy initiates the operation of laser weapons. The first use is to protect ships deployed in the Persian Gulf. (Military.com via FOX News)
December 12, 2014, Series Premiere of Marco Polo
December 12, 2014,
December 12, 2014,
December 12, 2014, Wall Street sees its worst week in three years as oil prices continue to collapse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sheds 315 points, or 1.8%, to 17280. (FOX Business)
December 12, 2014, An unknown person shoots four people outside of Rosemary Anderson High School, an alternative high school in Portland, Oregon. Police later question a 22-year-old man. (CNN)
December 12, 2014, Sony Pictures reportedly shuts production on several sets because of computer network issues regarding employee disbursement of pay following a massive computer hack. (FOX News)
December 12, 2014, Torrent site isoHunt appears to have unofficially resurrected The Pirate Bay at a site which turns out serving new content. (VB News)
December 12, 2014, Microsoft announces its upcoming Windows 10 consumer version preview for January 21. (FOX News)
December 13, 2014, In American football, Marcus Mariota of the University of Oregon football wins the 2014 Heisman trophy for the best player in college football. (Fox News)
December 13, 2014, The Geminids meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend. (Boing Boing)
December 13, 2014, The Geminids meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend. (Boing Boing)
December 14, 2014,
December 14, 2014, Miss World 2014 crowns Rolene Strauss, Miss South Africa, in London. (CNN)
December 14, 2014, Archaeologists reconstruct two giant statues of Amenhotep III, toppled by an earthquake at the Nile River in 1200 BC. The team's restoration project re-erected surviving fragments at the northern gate of the king's funerary temple. (AFP via Daily Mail)
December 14, 2014, European private equity firm BC Partners agrees to buy American pet supplies retail chain PetSmart for $8.7 billion. (New York Times)
December 14, 2014, Angalifu, a male of the critically endangered northern white rhinoceros dies at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The remaining rhinoceroses are one female at the Zoo, three at the Czech Republic zoo, and one at Kenyan preserve. (Huffington Post)
December 14, 2014, In the NBA, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers moves to third on the all-time point scorer list overtaking Michael Jordan. (AFP via SportsFan)
December 14, 2014, Miss World 2014 crowns Rolene Strauss, Miss South Africa, in London. (CNN)
December 14, 2014, Archaeologists reconstruct two giant statues of Amenhotep III, toppled by an earthquake at the Nile River in 1200 BC. The team's restoration project re-erected surviving fragments at the northern gate of the king's funerary temple. (AFP via Daily Mail)
December 14, 2014, European private equity firm BC Partners agrees to buy American pet supplies retail chain PetSmart for $8.7 billion. (New York Times)
December 14, 2014, Angalifu, a male of the critically endangered northern white rhinoceros dies at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The remaining rhinoceroses are one female at the Zoo, three at the Czech Republic zoo, and one at Kenyan preserve. (Huffington Post)
December 14, 2014, In the NBA, Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers moves to third on the all-time point scorer list overtaking Michael Jordan. (AFP via SportsFan)
December 15, 2014, 2014 Sydney hostage crisis:
The hostage situation ends with gunman Man Haron Monis and two hostages dead and four others injured. (CNN)
December 15, 2014,
December 15, 2014, 2014 Sydney hostage crisis: A gunman, Man Haron Monis, takes 17 people hostage at Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place, Sydney. (BBC)
December 15, 2014, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings: A shooting spree kills six people throughout Montgomery County in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs. The suspect, Bradley William Stone, remains at large. (WPVI-TV)
December 15, 2014, Authorized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Denmark becomes the first country to officially submit a claim on the North Pole. (UPI)
December 15, 2014, The Supreme Court of the United States rules by an 8–1 vote that evidence collected based on a reasonable misinterpretation of the law can be used at trial and is not deemed an unreasonable search or seizure. (Wall Street Journal)
December 15, 2014,
December 15, 2014, 2014 Sydney hostage crisis: A gunman, Man Haron Monis, takes 17 people hostage at Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place, Sydney. (BBC)
December 15, 2014, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania shootings: A shooting spree kills six people throughout Montgomery County in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania suburbs. The suspect, Bradley William Stone, remains at large. (WPVI-TV)
December 15, 2014, Authorized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Denmark becomes the first country to officially submit a claim on the North Pole. (UPI)
December 15, 2014, The Supreme Court of the United States rules by an 8–1 vote that evidence collected based on a reasonable misinterpretation of the law can be used at trial and is not deemed an unreasonable search or seizure. (Wall Street Journal)
December 16, 2014, 2014 Peshawar school attack: Taliban gunmen storm one of the military-run Army Public Schools in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 141, including 132 children and nine employees, with most of five hundred students evacuated.(Reuters)
December 16, 2014,
December 16, 2014, Sony Music Entertainment gives Chinese online company Tencent rights to distribute its music catalogue. (Reuters)
December 16, 2014, The court jury finds Apple Inc. in a nine-year lawsuit not guilty of violating antitrust laws and deleting music content for security reasons. (Ars Technica)
December 16, 2014, India declares a ban on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after an engineer was detained for campaigning on behalf of the group on Twitter. Officials worry that such ban will endanger thirty-nine men, believed to be held hostage by the group. (Reuters)
December 16, 2014, Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the US District Court of Pennsylvania declares President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration unconstitutional. (Reuters)
December 16, 2014,
December 16, 2014, Sony Music Entertainment gives Chinese online company Tencent rights to distribute its music catalogue. (Reuters)
December 16, 2014, The court jury finds Apple Inc. in a nine-year lawsuit not guilty of violating antitrust laws and deleting music content for security reasons. (Ars Technica)
December 16, 2014, India declares a ban on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after an engineer was detained for campaigning on behalf of the group on Twitter. Officials worry that such ban will endanger thirty-nine men, believed to be held hostage by the group. (Reuters)
December 16, 2014, Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the US District Court of Pennsylvania declares President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration unconstitutional. (Reuters)
December 17, 2014, The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after cutting them off 55 years ago. An American embassy will open in Havana and embargo talks will begin. (The Daily Beast)
December 17, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: Sony cancels the New York City sneak preview of the upcoming 2014 film The Interview, originally scheduled for December 18, due to threatening messages by hackers. (USA Today)
-Sony cancels the release of The Interview, originally scheduled for Christmas 2014. (CNN)
December 17, 2014,
December 17, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: Sony cancels the New York City sneak preview of the upcoming 2014 film The Interview, originally scheduled for December 18, due to threatening messages by hackers. (USA Today)
-Sony cancels the release of The Interview, originally scheduled for Christmas 2014. (CNN)
December 17, 2014,
December 17, 2014, 2014 Peshawar school attack: Pakistan lifts the moratorium on the death penalty for terror-related cases following the Taliban's assault on a school in Peshawar on Tuesday that killed 141, including 132 children.(The Guardian)
December 17, 2014, Spanish energy company Repsol has signed a deal to acquire Canadian energy producer Talisman Energy for $13 billion including debt.(Reuters)
December 17, 2014, FIFA's independent ethics investigator Michael J. Garcia has resigned from that position in protest over the organization's handling of his compiled report on corruption allegations in connection with the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. (BBC)
December 18, 2014,
December 18, 2014,
December 18, 2014, US clothing company Gap Inc. agrees to distribute their apparels to Chinese e-commerce company JD.com. (Reuters)
December 18, 2014, The Death Penalty Information Center states that thirty-five people have been executed in the United States in 2014, marking it the fewest number within two decades. (USA Today)
December 18, 2014, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk III successfully completes its first flight, carrying the crew vehicle demonstrator CARE. (Times of India)
December 18, 2014,
December 18, 2014,
December 18, 2014, US clothing company Gap Inc. agrees to distribute their apparels to Chinese e-commerce company JD.com. (Reuters)
December 18, 2014, The Death Penalty Information Center states that thirty-five people have been executed in the United States in 2014, marking it the fewest number within two decades. (USA Today)
December 18, 2014, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk III successfully completes its first flight, carrying the crew vehicle demonstrator CARE. (Times of India)
December 19, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: Paramount Pictures orders theater chains, including those in Cleveland, Atlanta, and New Orleans, not to re-release the 2004 film Team America: World Police, which depicts a fictional mission to kill Kim Jong-il. (Mercury News)
December 19, 2014,
December 19, 2014, Governor of Vermont Peter Shumlin abandons plans for the first single-payer health care system in the United States, citing transparency problems and heavy tax increases. (Washington Post)
December 19, 2014, Scientists withdraw the January 29, 2014 claim that there is a simple way to convert normal cells into stem cells, which can be used for any part of the body. Nature had in July retracted its two previous articles after the disgraced lead researcher, Japanese Haruko Obokata, was found to have plagiarized and fabricated parts of the papers. (Reuters via FOX News)
December 19, 2014, Governor of Vermont Peter Shumlin abandons plans for the first single-payer health care system in the United States, citing transparency problems and heavy tax increases. (Washington Post)
December 19, 2014, Scientists withdraw the January 29, 2014 claim that there is a simple way to convert normal cells into stem cells, which can be used for any part of the body. Nature had in July retracted its two previous articles after the disgraced lead researcher, Japanese Haruko Obokata, was found to have plagiarized and fabricated parts of the papers. (Reuters via FOX News)
December 20, 2014, 2014 NYPD officer killings: After shooting and wounding his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore, Ismaaiyl Brinsley shoots and kills two policemen execution style in Brooklyn, New York, supposedly in revenge for the deaths of two black men in the U.S. reportedly caused by police officers during the summer of 2014, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. The gunman is later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the subway. (CNN)
December 20, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: The North Korean government denies the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations's (FBI) accusation of involvement in hacking Sony's computers, asking the U.S. for a joint investigation and threatening "serious consequences" if the United States refuses the offer of cooperation. (Bloomberg)
-The United States rejects the offer from North Korea and then seeks help from China instead. (LA Times)
-Hackers send the FBI an email linking to a YouTube video of "You are an idiot!" (The Daily Beast)
December 20, 2014, Cairns child killings: Queensland police arrest an Australian mother for murder in the stabbing deaths of eight children. (FOX News)
December 20, 2014, Hundreds of people from the organization Black Lives Matter's Minneapolis branch protest at the Mall of America, leading to its partial shutdown and 25 arrests. (USA Today)
December 20, 2014, In preparation for a government-proposed transportation tunnel, anthropologists discover 6,000-year-old charcoal at a site near Stonehenge suggesting an encampment existed much earlier than previously theorized. (Huffington Post)
December 20, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: The North Korean government denies the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations's (FBI) accusation of involvement in hacking Sony's computers, asking the U.S. for a joint investigation and threatening "serious consequences" if the United States refuses the offer of cooperation. (Bloomberg)
-The United States rejects the offer from North Korea and then seeks help from China instead. (LA Times)
-Hackers send the FBI an email linking to a YouTube video of "You are an idiot!" (The Daily Beast)
December 20, 2014, Cairns child killings: Queensland police arrest an Australian mother for murder in the stabbing deaths of eight children. (FOX News)
December 20, 2014, Hundreds of people from the organization Black Lives Matter's Minneapolis branch protest at the Mall of America, leading to its partial shutdown and 25 arrests. (USA Today)
December 20, 2014, In preparation for a government-proposed transportation tunnel, anthropologists discover 6,000-year-old charcoal at a site near Stonehenge suggesting an encampment existed much earlier than previously theorized. (Huffington Post)
December 21, 2014, British singer-songwriter Elton John converts his domestic partnership with filmmaker David Furnish to marriage. (FOX News)
December 22, 2014,
December 22, 2014,
December 22, 2014,
December 22, 2014, North Korea experiences severe internet outages. (AP)
December 22, 2014, An out-of-control dustbin lorry in the Queen Street and George Square areas of Glasgow, Scotland, kills at least six people. (BBC)
December 22, 2014, The US CFTC fines Deutsche Bank $3B over customer fund flaws. (Reuters via FOX Business)
December 22, 2014, A federal land swap in Arizona green lights the US's deepest (1.3 miles) and largest (1.6b tons) copper mine. (FOX News)
December 22, 2014,
December 22, 2014,
December 22, 2014,
December 22, 2014, North Korea experiences severe internet outages. (AP)
December 22, 2014, An out-of-control dustbin lorry in the Queen Street and George Square areas of Glasgow, Scotland, kills at least six people. (BBC)
December 22, 2014, The US CFTC fines Deutsche Bank $3B over customer fund flaws. (Reuters via FOX Business)
December 22, 2014, A federal land swap in Arizona green lights the US's deepest (1.3 miles) and largest (1.6b tons) copper mine. (FOX News)
December 23, 2014,
December 23, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: Sony schedules the film The Interview for release to small theaters on Christmas Day despite canceling its debut. (Florida Times-Union)
December 23, 2014, A tornado outbreak hits the southern United States, producing five tornadoes with at least four people dead and leaving fifty others injured. (The Weather Network)
December 23, 2014, The FDA says that in regards to the 31-year-old policy against gay men making blood donations it will recommend lifting the lifetime ban early next year, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous 12 months. (AP)
December 23, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: Sony schedules the film The Interview for release to small theaters on Christmas Day despite canceling its debut. (Florida Times-Union)
December 23, 2014, A tornado outbreak hits the southern United States, producing five tornadoes with at least four people dead and leaving fifty others injured. (The Weather Network)
December 23, 2014, The FDA says that in regards to the 31-year-old policy against gay men making blood donations it will recommend lifting the lifetime ban early next year, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous 12 months. (AP)
December 24, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack: Sony releases the film The Interview online via YouTube and Google Play. (Reuters)
December 25, 2014, Release of The Interview
December 25, 2014, Release of Unbroken
December 25, 2014, Release of Big Eyes
December 25, 2014, Release of The Gambler
December 25, 2014, Release of Paddington
December 25, 2014, Urbi et Orbi: Pope Francis condemns the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria for violence against women, children, and ethnic minorities. (CNN)
December 25, 2014, 2014 Ebola epidemic: In her Royal Christmas Message, Queen Elizabeth II praises aid workers for fighting ebola in West Africa. (CBS)
December 25, 2014, United States President Barack Obama praises U.S. troops and reflects on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan during his annual Christmas message from Hawaii. (Toronto Star)
December 25, 2014, 2014 Russian financial crisis: Vladimir Putin announces price controls on vodka to reduce bootlegging and moonshining. (New York Daily News)
December 26, 2014, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: Countries around the Indian Ocean commemorate the tenth anniversary of the tsunami. (BBC)
December 26, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack:
-North Korea's embassy in Moscow issues a statement, saying: "The film The Interview, produced by the U.S. studio Sony Pictures, is a very dangerous film product that justifies and promotes terrorism." (Hollywood Reporter)
-Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Alexander Lukashevich says that "the mere idea of the film is aggressively scandalous and that the reaction of the North Korean side is very understandable." (TASS)
-A report says that even before the American Christmas Eve release of “The Interview”, thousands of Chinese citizens were downloading pirated versions of the movie on domestic video-sharing websites. By midday on December 26, more than 300,000 people had seen the film. (The New York Times)
-The Interview grosses US$1 million on Christmas Day at the box office despite being released only to small theaters. (CNN)
December 26, 2014, Hackers cause the Playstation Network and Xbox Live to suffer connection difficulties on Christmas Day. (USA Today)
December 27, 2014,
December 27, 2014,
December 27, 2014, North Korea experiences another Internet and cell phone outage and holds the United States responsible. (NY Daily News)
December 28, 2014, Release of The Water Diviner
December 28, 2014, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: Traveling through thunderstorms over the Java Sea, Flight 8501 loses contact with air traffic control after the plane departed from the Indonesian city of Surabaya en route to Singapore with 162 people on board. (BBC)
December 28, 2014, The Italian-owned MS Norman Atlantic catches fire on a ferry run from Greece to Italy 44 nautical miles northwest of Corfu, with 222 vehicles, 411 passengers and 5 crew on board. Greek and Italian officials report at least one person is dead. (The Independent)
December 29, 2014, Ebola outbreak: Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital diagnoses a woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone, as the first case of Ebola in the UK. (BBC)
December 30, 2014, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC)
December 30, 2014,
December 30, 2014, In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal man kills eight people and then himself. (Irish Times)
December 30, 2014, Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104. (BBC)
December 31, 2014, Pacific typhoon season: As Tropical Storm Jangmi (Seniang) weakens, the Philippines death toll reaches 53 people. (AP)
December 31, 2014, A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others. (BBC)
December 31, 2014, A riot breaks out at a New Year's Eve festival in Gisborne, New Zealand, leaving 83 people injured and 63 arrested. (NZ Herald)
December 25, 2014, Release of The Interview
December 25, 2014, Release of Unbroken
December 25, 2014, Release of Big Eyes
December 25, 2014, Release of The Gambler
December 25, 2014, Release of Paddington
December 25, 2014, Urbi et Orbi: Pope Francis condemns the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria for violence against women, children, and ethnic minorities. (CNN)
December 25, 2014, 2014 Ebola epidemic: In her Royal Christmas Message, Queen Elizabeth II praises aid workers for fighting ebola in West Africa. (CBS)
December 25, 2014, United States President Barack Obama praises U.S. troops and reflects on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan during his annual Christmas message from Hawaii. (Toronto Star)
December 25, 2014, 2014 Russian financial crisis: Vladimir Putin announces price controls on vodka to reduce bootlegging and moonshining. (New York Daily News)
December 26, 2014, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: Countries around the Indian Ocean commemorate the tenth anniversary of the tsunami. (BBC)
December 26, 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment hack:
-North Korea's embassy in Moscow issues a statement, saying: "The film The Interview, produced by the U.S. studio Sony Pictures, is a very dangerous film product that justifies and promotes terrorism." (Hollywood Reporter)
-Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman Alexander Lukashevich says that "the mere idea of the film is aggressively scandalous and that the reaction of the North Korean side is very understandable." (TASS)
-A report says that even before the American Christmas Eve release of “The Interview”, thousands of Chinese citizens were downloading pirated versions of the movie on domestic video-sharing websites. By midday on December 26, more than 300,000 people had seen the film. (The New York Times)
-The Interview grosses US$1 million on Christmas Day at the box office despite being released only to small theaters. (CNN)
December 26, 2014, Hackers cause the Playstation Network and Xbox Live to suffer connection difficulties on Christmas Day. (USA Today)
December 27, 2014,
December 27, 2014,
December 27, 2014, North Korea experiences another Internet and cell phone outage and holds the United States responsible. (NY Daily News)
December 28, 2014, Release of The Water Diviner
December 28, 2014, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501: Traveling through thunderstorms over the Java Sea, Flight 8501 loses contact with air traffic control after the plane departed from the Indonesian city of Surabaya en route to Singapore with 162 people on board. (BBC)
December 28, 2014, The Italian-owned MS Norman Atlantic catches fire on a ferry run from Greece to Italy 44 nautical miles northwest of Corfu, with 222 vehicles, 411 passengers and 5 crew on board. Greek and Italian officials report at least one person is dead. (The Independent)
December 29, 2014, Ebola outbreak: Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital diagnoses a woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone, as the first case of Ebola in the UK. (BBC)
December 30, 2014, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC)
December 30, 2014,
December 30, 2014, In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal man kills eight people and then himself. (Irish Times)
December 30, 2014, Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104. (BBC)
December 31, 2014, Pacific typhoon season: As Tropical Storm Jangmi (Seniang) weakens, the Philippines death toll reaches 53 people. (AP)
December 31, 2014, A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others. (BBC)
December 31, 2014, A riot breaks out at a New Year's Eve festival in Gisborne, New Zealand, leaving 83 people injured and 63 arrested. (NZ Herald)
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