February 1, 2015, Super Bowl XLIX: In American football, the New England Patriots defeat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in the Super Bowl at the University of Phoenix Stadium. (BBC)
-Patriots quarterback Tom Brady wins his third MVP award at a Super Bowl and becomes the third quarterback to win four Super Bowls after Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw. (Sports International)
February 1, 2015, 2015 Australian Open:In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia beats Andy Murray of the United Kingdom in the Australian Open Men's Singles Final. Djokovic is the first man to win five Australian Open championships in the open era. (ABC News)
February 2, 2015,
February 2, 2015,
February 2, 2015, The four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta go on public display at the British Library in London to commemorate the 800th anniversary signing of the document in June 1215. (AFP via AsiaOne)
February 2, 2015, 2014–15 North American winter:A winter storm causes the cancellation of school in the midwestern United States and the cancellation of 1,000 flights. (Daily Mail)
February 2, 2015, Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial in France on pimping charges. (BBC)
February 2, 2015, Iran successfully puts Fajr satellite in orbit using Safir-B1 rocket. (Spaceflight Now)
February 2, 2015, Iran successfully puts Fajr satellite in orbit using Safir-B1 rocket. (Spaceflight Now)
February 3, 2015,
February 3, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posts pictures of Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath Al-Kasasbeh being burnt alive which are believed to be a month old. (BBC)
February 3, 2015, American author Harper Lee announced plans to publish her second book, a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, that was completed in the 1950s but misplaced. Go Set a Watchman is scheduled to be released on July 14, 2015. (The Telegraph)
February 3, 2015, Standard & Poor's reaches settlements totaling $1.5 billion with the U.S. Justice Department and several U.S. states for inflating ratings on subprime mortgage bonds in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. (Bloomberg)
February 4, 2015, Series Premiere of Fresh off the Boat
February 4, 2015,
February 4, 2015, TransAsia Airways Flight 235: A TransAsia Airways ATR 72 turboprop aircraft with fifty-eight people on board crashes into the Keelung River near the Taiwanese capital Taipei. At least 31 people were killed with several injured or missing. (Bloomberg)
February 4, 2015, Ross Ulbricht, aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" the owner of the Silk Road Deep Web illicit products website, is convicted of seven charges including trafficking and money laundering in the United States. (Wired)
February 5, 2015, Series Premiere of Allegiance
February 5, 2015,
February 5, 2015,
February 5, 2015,
February 5, 2015, A Paul Gauguin painting “Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?),” is reportedly sold to a Qatari buyer for close to $300 million. (New York Times)
February 5, 2015, American pharmaceutical Pfizer announces plans to acquire Hospira at a cost of $17 billion. (Street Insider)
February 5, 2015, American electronics retailer RadioShack files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters via CNBC)
February 5, 2015, Eddie Ray Routh goes on trial for the alleged murder of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield in the Texas town of Stephenville. (CBC)
February 5, 2015, British 70s glam rock star Gary Glitter is convicted of historic child sexual abuse charges and faces the prospect of life imprisonment. (The Telegraph)
February 6, 2015, Release of Jupiter Ascending
February 6, 2015, Release of
February 5, 2015, American pharmaceutical Pfizer announces plans to acquire Hospira at a cost of $17 billion. (Street Insider)
February 5, 2015, American electronics retailer RadioShack files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters via CNBC)
February 5, 2015, Eddie Ray Routh goes on trial for the alleged murder of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield in the Texas town of Stephenville. (CBC)
February 5, 2015, British 70s glam rock star Gary Glitter is convicted of historic child sexual abuse charges and faces the prospect of life imprisonment. (The Telegraph)
February 6, 2015, Release of Jupiter Ascending
February 6, 2015, Release of
February 6, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant The Associated Press (AP) in Beirut, Lebanon, reports in an online news story article that a statement reportedly from ISIL claims that an American female hostage (ISIL gave her name as Kayla Jean Mueller) has been killed in Jordanian airstrikes at the outskirts of Raqqa, Syria, in the north of the country, around the time of a noon prayer service. ISIL stated no militants were killed. The White House says that they have no proof of her death. (AP)
February 7, 2015, NBC Nightly News anchorman Brian Williams begins a temporary hiatus from broadcasting after he was caught lying about having been onboard an underfire helicopter which crashed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP)
February 7, 2015, TransAsia cancels dozens of flights to retrain its pilots following the crash of TransAsia Airways Flight 235 earlier in the week. (AFP via Daily Mail)
February 7, 2015,
February 7, 2015,
February 7, 2015, The management of Twentieth Century Fox considers granting permission to a group of investors, including some hedge funds,
seeking to turn their voting shares into non-voting shares of stock, a
conversion that would further concentrate control in the hands of Rupert Murdoch and his family. (Reuters)
February 8, 2015, Series Premiere of Better Call Saul
February 8, 2015, Season 5.2 Premiere of The Walking Dead
February 8, 2015, 57th Annual Grammy Awards: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences members present the Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. (News Limited)
-"Stay with Me (Darkchild Version)" wins Song of the Year and Record of the Year. (AP)
-Morning Phase performed by Beck wins Album of the Year. (Reuters via Yahoo!)
February 8, 2015,
February 8, 2015, Series Premiere of Better Call Saul
February 8, 2015, Season 5.2 Premiere of The Walking Dead
February 8, 2015, 57th Annual Grammy Awards: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences members present the Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. (News Limited)
-"Stay with Me (Darkchild Version)" wins Song of the Year and Record of the Year. (AP)
-Morning Phase performed by Beck wins Album of the Year. (Reuters via Yahoo!)
February 8, 2015,
February 8, 2015,
February 8, 2015,
February 8, 2015,
February 8, 2015,
February 8, 2015, 68th British Academy Film Awards: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts members present the British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House in London. (BBC)
-Boyhood wins Best Film with Richard Linklater winning the Best Director award. (The Guardian)
-Boyhood wins Best Film with Richard Linklater winning the Best Director award. (The Guardian)
February 9, 2015, The U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts, sets all-time records for amount of snow on the ground and amount of snow over 30-day and 40-day periods in 17 days. (WCVB)
February 9, 2015, Mountaineers claim to have found in the Andes the wreckage of LAN Chile Flight 210 that disappeared in August 1961 killing 24 people on board including eight members and two coaches of the Club de Deportes Green Cross football team. (The Independent)
February 9, 2015, A Canadian gold mining company, Tahoe Resources, agrees to buy Rio Alto Mining for more than CAN$1 billion, part of an ongoing consolidation in the precious metals mining industry. (Reuters)
February 9, 2015, Samsung reveals potential for next generation smart TVs to eavesdrop. (AP)
February 10, 2015, Release of videogame Evolve
February 9, 2015, Mountaineers claim to have found in the Andes the wreckage of LAN Chile Flight 210 that disappeared in August 1961 killing 24 people on board including eight members and two coaches of the Club de Deportes Green Cross football team. (The Independent)
February 9, 2015, A Canadian gold mining company, Tahoe Resources, agrees to buy Rio Alto Mining for more than CAN$1 billion, part of an ongoing consolidation in the precious metals mining industry. (Reuters)
February 9, 2015, Samsung reveals potential for next generation smart TVs to eavesdrop. (AP)
February 10, 2015, Release of videogame Evolve
February 10, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The United States confirms the death of ISIL hostage Kayla Mueller. (Fox News)
February 10, 2015, NBC Nightly News suspends American newsreader Brian Williams from broadcasting for six months for exaggerating a story about his personal experiences on a helicopter during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP)
February 10, 2015, NBC Nightly News suspends American newsreader Brian Williams from broadcasting for six months for exaggerating a story about his personal experiences on a helicopter during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP)
February 10, 2015, American comedian and satirist Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, announces his departure from the show, which is due to take place at the end of the year. (Reuters)
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015,
February 10, 2015, The European Broadcasting Union announces that Australia will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in Vienna 2015; it will be the first country ever outside of the European Broadcasting Area, as well as the first associated member of the EBU, to participate (Eurovision.tv)
February 10, 2015, Apple, Inc. becomes the first company in the world to close with a market capitalization over $700 billion. (AP)
February 11, 2015, Costa Concordia disaster: A court in the city of Grosseto convicts the former captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, of manslaughter for his part in the January 2012 ship's sinking and sentences him to 16 years in jail. (BBC)
February 11, 2015, SpaceX launches a weather observation satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory, at 6:03 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, Florida (for the US Air Force/NASA/NOAA), but postpones making of a second attempt to land a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket on a floating platform called the autonomous spaceport drone ship, following the January 10 failure during the SpaceX CRS-5 mission. SpaceX instead, attempts a "mock" soft-landing into the Atlantic ocean (AP)
February 11, 2015, Costa Concordia disaster: A court in the city of Grosseto convicts the former captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, of manslaughter for his part in the January 2012 ship's sinking and sentences him to 16 years in jail. (BBC)
February 11, 2015, SpaceX launches a weather observation satellite, Deep Space Climate Observatory, at 6:03 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, Florida (for the US Air Force/NASA/NOAA), but postpones making of a second attempt to land a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket on a floating platform called the autonomous spaceport drone ship, following the January 10 failure during the SpaceX CRS-5 mission. SpaceX instead, attempts a "mock" soft-landing into the Atlantic ocean (AP)
February 11, 2015, Police arrest a suspected shooter Craig Stephen Hicks for killing a Muslim family of three in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Police state that the shooting was motivated by a long-standing neighbor dispute over parking. (The Independent)
February 12, 2015, Series Premiere of The Slap
February 12, 2015,
February 13, 2015,
-Danish police kill a man at the Nørrebro station after an exchange of gunfire. The police believe he was the man responsible for the two previous attacks. (Reuters/AFP via ABC News Australia)
February 15, 2015,
February 18, 2015, Islamic State: The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the recent beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya. (AFP via Newvision)
February 19, 2015, Series Premiere of The Odd Couple
February 19, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Vikings
February 19, 2015,
February 19, 2015,
February 19, 2015, 2 people are dead in Los Angeles County, California after contracting a bacterial infection of Enterobacteriaceae. 179 other people may have been exposed to the bacteria as well. (CNN)
February 19, 2015,
February 19, 2015, Research published in the journal Nature claims that a large portion of the lithium in the universe was produced by novae. (ABC News Australia)
February 20, 2015, Release of Hot Tub Time Machine 2
February 20, 2015, Release of McFarland, USA
February 20, 2015, Release of The Duff
February 20, 2015, A fire rips through The Marina Torch apartment complex in Dubai, one of the tallest residential apartment buildings in the world. (BBC)
February 20, 2015, At least 23 people die this week in the United States due to a cold snap with 18 dead in the state of Tennessee. (CNN)
February 20, 2015,
February 20, 2015,
February 20, 2015, February 20, 2015,
February 21, 2015, Floyd Mayweather announces that Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is set for 2 May 2015 at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Garden Arena. (USA Today)
February 21, 2015, NASA astronauts perform one of three ISS spacewalks to reroute cables needed in preparation for the 2017 arrival of the first commercial spacecraft capable of transporting astronauts. (AP)
February 22, 2015, 87th Academy Awards: Alejandro González Iñárritu becomes the second Mexican director to win Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman. Birdman then wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. (The Globe and Mail)
-British actor Eddie Redmayne wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. (The Guardian)
-American actress Julianne Moore wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Still Alice. (Hollywood Reporter)
February 22, 2015, In motorsport, Joey Logano wins the 57th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, the first race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Polesitter, 3-time Daytona 500 winner, and 4-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon finishes 33rd after a last-lap crash in what is planned to be his final Daytona 500 start. (AP via ESPN)
February 22, 2015,
February 22, 2015,
February 22, 2015, Two former British foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind become embroiled in a "cash for access" scandal. The two deny any wrongdoing and refer themselves to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Hudson. (BBC)
February 23, 2015,
February 24, 2015,
February 24, 2015,
February 24, 2015, Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the murder in 2013 of famed United States Navy SEALs' sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. (BBC)
February 24, 2015, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, vetoes a bill approving the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline between Canadian oil sands and refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (Los Angeles Times)
February 24, 2015, A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck. Initial reports indicated that there were "multiple casualties". More than 30 have been injured. (Los Angeles Times)
February 24, 2015,
February 24, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that ISIL has kidnapped in a series of raids on February 23 at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in Syria. (Reuters)
February 24, 2015, A Czech gunman opens fire at a restaurant in Uherský Brod killing at least eight people. (AP)
February 25, 2015,
February 25, 2015, 2015 Brit Awards: American entertainer Madonna falls off stage while performing "Living for Love" at the 2015 Brit Awards. (PA via WA Today)
-Mark Ronson wins Best British single for "Uptown Funk" featuring American singer Bruno Mars. (The Guardian)
-Ed Sheeran wins Best British album for x. (The Guardian)
February 25, 2015,
February 25, 2015,
February 25, 2015, The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were so concerned about a study released today in The New England Journal of Medicine, that they are launching another new study about why so many people are becoming infected by or exposed to the potentially deadly Clostridium difficile ("C. diff.") bacterium after going to the doctor's or dentist's office. (CNN)
February 25, 2015, Film director Roman Polanski testifies at a closed to the media court hearing in Kraków, Poland, regarding a US request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex crime conviction. The hearing is later postponed until April. (The Guardian)
February 25, 2015, Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $2.6 billion to settle with the United States Department of Justice over its sale of residential mortgage backed securities. (Bloomberg)
February 25, 2015, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald admits that he lied when he claimed that he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces. (AP)
February 25, 2015, Pop singer Lady Gaga will star in the upcoming sequel of American Horror Story, to be titled Hotel. (Entertainment Weekly)
February 26, 2015, Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. (Huffington Post)
February 26, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: "Jihadi John", an ISIL terrorist featured in many beheading videos, is identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born man who lived in the United Kingdom and was on a terrorism watch list. (The Washington Post)
-ISIS posts a video showing the destruction of Mosul Museum, the second largest in Iraq and rich in artifacts from thousands of years of Iraqi history. (National Post)
February 26, 2015,
February 26, 2015, The Guardian publishes articles alleging that the Chicago Police Department have been running a black site at Homan Square for detained Americans; former justice officials call for investigation. The CPD denies the allegations. (The Guardian)
February 26, 2015, The US Federal Communications Commission votes to classify internet service providers as public utilities, creating net neutrality rules. (AP)
February 27, 2015, Release of Focus
February 27, 2015, Release of The Lazarus Effect
February 27, 2015, Release of The The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
February 27, 2015, American actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Spock from the Star Trek franchise, dies at the age of 83 from complications of COPD. (MSN.com)
February 27, 2015, An unidentified attacker shoots former Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and current member of regional parliament of Yaroslavl Oblast Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov dead in Moscow.(BBC)
February 27, 2015, Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by Islamist attackers in Dhaka. (The Telegraph)
February 28, 2015,
February 28, 2015,
February 11, 2015, Little League Baseball strips Chicago's Little League championship team Jackie Robinson West of their 2014 Little League World Series US title after an investigation revealed the team had falsified boundaries to field ineligible players. The league names Mountain Ridge Little League of Las Vegas, Nevada, the US champion due to the vacating of Jackie Robinson West's wins. (AP)
February 11, 2015,
February 11, 2015,
February 11, 2015,
February 11, 2015,
February 11, 2015,
February 11, 2015,
February 11, 2015, Rite Aid, one of the largest chains of pharmacies in the United States, announces that it is purchasing EnvisionRx, a pharmacy benefits manager, from TPG Capital, for $2 billion. (Reuters)
February 11, 2015, Little League Baseball strips Chicago's Little League championship team Jackie Robinson West of their 2014 Little League World Series US title after an investigation revealed the team had falsified boundaries to field ineligible players. The league names Mountain Ridge Little League of Las Vegas, Nevada, the US champion due to the vacating of Jackie Robinson West's wins. (AP)
February 12, 2015,
February 12, 2015,
February 13, 2015, Release of Fifty Shades of Grey
February 13, 2015, Release of Drake album If Your Reading this Your Too Late
February 13, 2015,
February 13, 2015, Release of Fifty Shades of Grey
February 13, 2015, Release of Drake album If Your Reading this Your Too Late
February 13, 2015,
February 13, 2015,
February 13, 2015,
February 14, 2015,
February 14, 2015, 2015 Copenhagen attacks: Danish Police seek a gunmen who fired an automatic weapon at a free speech seminar in Copenhagen, Denmark, killing documentary maker Finn Nørgaard and injuring Swedish artist Lars Vilks known for controversial drawings of the prophet Mohammed. Among the injured are also three police officers who had been guarding the seminar. (BBC News)
February 14, 2015,
February 14, 2015, Pope Francis appoints twenty new cardinals resulting in a majority of members of the College of Cardinals being from outside Europe for the first time ever. (BBC)
February 15, 2015, 2015 Copenhagen attacks: Danish Police seek a gunman who fired on three people near a Copenhagen synagogue a day after the shootings at the Free Speech Gathering. One person dies. (PA via The Independent) February 14, 2015, 2015 Copenhagen attacks: Danish Police seek a gunmen who fired an automatic weapon at a free speech seminar in Copenhagen, Denmark, killing documentary maker Finn Nørgaard and injuring Swedish artist Lars Vilks known for controversial drawings of the prophet Mohammed. Among the injured are also three police officers who had been guarding the seminar. (BBC News)
February 14, 2015,
February 14, 2015, Pope Francis appoints twenty new cardinals resulting in a majority of members of the College of Cardinals being from outside Europe for the first time ever. (BBC)
-Danish police kill a man at the Nørrebro station after an exchange of gunfire. The police believe he was the man responsible for the two previous attacks. (Reuters/AFP via ABC News Australia)
February 15, 2015, Libyan Civil War (2014–present): The Islamic State releases a video purportedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians who had been previously kidnapped in Sirte. (BBC)
-Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announces a seven-day mourning period and calls for a security meeting with the country's top security body. (Reuters)
February 15, 2015,
-Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announces a seven-day mourning period and calls for a security meeting with the country's top security body. (Reuters)
February 15, 2015,
February 15, 2015,
February 16, 2015,
February 16, 2015,
February 16, 2015, 2014–15 North American winter: A winter storm warning is in place for Washington, D.C. and the American states of Virginia and Maryland with schools closed and transport advisories in place. (NBC Washington)
-The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency declares a storm-related state of emergency causing disruptions to public transportion and power transmission. (WSMV)
February 16, 2015, 2014–15 North American winter: A winter storm warning is in place for Washington, D.C. and the American states of Virginia and Maryland with schools closed and transport advisories in place. (NBC Washington)
-The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency declares a storm-related state of emergency causing disruptions to public transportion and power transmission. (WSMV)
February 17, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015, Robert van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice is arrested for burglary and grand theft in Florida. (NBC Miami)
February 18, 2015, Swede Alex Yucel pleads guilty in the United States to distributing Blackshades software that was used to hack into 500,000 computers worldwide. (CNBC)
February 18, 2015, Japan Post acquires Australian transport company Toll Holdings at a cost of A$6.5 billion. (The Australian)
February 17, 2015,
February 17, 2015,
February 17, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015,
February 18, 2015, Robert van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice is arrested for burglary and grand theft in Florida. (NBC Miami)
February 18, 2015, Swede Alex Yucel pleads guilty in the United States to distributing Blackshades software that was used to hack into 500,000 computers worldwide. (CNBC)
February 18, 2015, Japan Post acquires Australian transport company Toll Holdings at a cost of A$6.5 billion. (The Australian)
February 19, 2015, Series Premiere of The Odd Couple
February 19, 2015, Season 3 Premiere of Vikings
February 19, 2015,
February 19, 2015,
February 19, 2015, 2 people are dead in Los Angeles County, California after contracting a bacterial infection of Enterobacteriaceae. 179 other people may have been exposed to the bacteria as well. (CNN)
February 19, 2015,
February 19, 2015, Research published in the journal Nature claims that a large portion of the lithium in the universe was produced by novae. (ABC News Australia)
February 20, 2015, Release of Hot Tub Time Machine 2
February 20, 2015, Release of McFarland, USA
February 20, 2015, Release of The Duff
February 20, 2015, A fire rips through The Marina Torch apartment complex in Dubai, one of the tallest residential apartment buildings in the world. (BBC)
February 20, 2015, At least 23 people die this week in the United States due to a cold snap with 18 dead in the state of Tennessee. (CNN)
February 20, 2015,
February 20, 2015,
February 20, 2015, February 20, 2015,
February 21, 2015, Floyd Mayweather announces that Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is set for 2 May 2015 at Las Vegas's MGM Grand Garden Arena. (USA Today)
February 21, 2015, NASA astronauts perform one of three ISS spacewalks to reroute cables needed in preparation for the 2017 arrival of the first commercial spacecraft capable of transporting astronauts. (AP)
February 22, 2015, 87th Academy Awards: Alejandro González Iñárritu becomes the second Mexican director to win Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman. Birdman then wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. (The Globe and Mail)
-British actor Eddie Redmayne wins the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. (The Guardian)
-American actress Julianne Moore wins the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Still Alice. (Hollywood Reporter)
February 22, 2015, In motorsport, Joey Logano wins the 57th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, the first race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Polesitter, 3-time Daytona 500 winner, and 4-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon finishes 33rd after a last-lap crash in what is planned to be his final Daytona 500 start. (AP via ESPN)
February 22, 2015,
February 22, 2015,
February 22, 2015, Two former British foreign secretaries, Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind become embroiled in a "cash for access" scandal. The two deny any wrongdoing and refer themselves to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Hudson. (BBC)
February 23, 2015,
February 24, 2015,
February 24, 2015,
February 24, 2015, Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the murder in 2013 of famed United States Navy SEALs' sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. (BBC)
February 24, 2015, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, vetoes a bill approving the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline between Canadian oil sands and refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (Los Angeles Times)
February 24, 2015, A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck. Initial reports indicated that there were "multiple casualties". More than 30 have been injured. (Los Angeles Times)
February 24, 2015,
February 24, 2015, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that ISIL has kidnapped in a series of raids on February 23 at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in Syria. (Reuters)
February 24, 2015, A Czech gunman opens fire at a restaurant in Uherský Brod killing at least eight people. (AP)
February 25, 2015,
February 25, 2015, 2015 Brit Awards: American entertainer Madonna falls off stage while performing "Living for Love" at the 2015 Brit Awards. (PA via WA Today)
-Mark Ronson wins Best British single for "Uptown Funk" featuring American singer Bruno Mars. (The Guardian)
-Ed Sheeran wins Best British album for x. (The Guardian)
February 25, 2015,
February 25, 2015,
February 25, 2015, The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were so concerned about a study released today in The New England Journal of Medicine, that they are launching another new study about why so many people are becoming infected by or exposed to the potentially deadly Clostridium difficile ("C. diff.") bacterium after going to the doctor's or dentist's office. (CNN)
February 25, 2015, Film director Roman Polanski testifies at a closed to the media court hearing in Kraków, Poland, regarding a US request for his extradition over a 1977 child sex crime conviction. The hearing is later postponed until April. (The Guardian)
February 25, 2015, Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $2.6 billion to settle with the United States Department of Justice over its sale of residential mortgage backed securities. (Bloomberg)
February 25, 2015, U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald admits that he lied when he claimed that he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces. (AP)
February 25, 2015, Pop singer Lady Gaga will star in the upcoming sequel of American Horror Story, to be titled Hotel. (Entertainment Weekly)
February 26, 2015, Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. (Huffington Post)
-ISIS posts a video showing the destruction of Mosul Museum, the second largest in Iraq and rich in artifacts from thousands of years of Iraqi history. (National Post)
February 26, 2015,
February 26, 2015, The Guardian publishes articles alleging that the Chicago Police Department have been running a black site at Homan Square for detained Americans; former justice officials call for investigation. The CPD denies the allegations. (The Guardian)
February 26, 2015, The US Federal Communications Commission votes to classify internet service providers as public utilities, creating net neutrality rules. (AP)
February 27, 2015, Release of Focus
February 27, 2015, Release of The Lazarus Effect
February 27, 2015, Release of The The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
February 27, 2015, American actor Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as Spock from the Star Trek franchise, dies at the age of 83 from complications of COPD. (MSN.com)
February 27, 2015, An unidentified attacker shoots former Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and current member of regional parliament of Yaroslavl Oblast Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov dead in Moscow.(BBC)
February 27, 2015, Avijit Roy, an American writer and blogger from Bangladesh, is hacked to death by Islamist attackers in Dhaka. (The Telegraph)
February 28, 2015,
February 28, 2015,
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