First Invictus Games Held.
Nurse William Pooley, who was treating patients in Sierra Leone, flew to London for emergency treatment after contracting Ebola.
The first photos to reveal that the Aral Sea was shrinking were taken by NASA.
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
Protesting and riots began in Missouri following the death of African American man, Michael Brown.
Marvel's superhero movie 'Guardians of the Galaxy' premiered in Hollywood, Los Angeles, US.
The Supreme Court of the United States decided on the rule that police cannot examine the contents of a cell phone without a search warrant.
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 people on board.
In Sweden, a job interview invitation was accidentally mailed to 61,000 people and caused chaos in their offices.
The oldest piece of Earth was found at a sheep ranch in Western Australia.
US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama amid warnings from China.
US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to college students in Jakarta, Indonesia, about the looming threat of Climate Change.
NASA revealed water vapor had been discovered on dwarf planet Ceres.
A bus plunged 400ft from a cliff in Malshej Ghat, India, killing thirty people.
A bombing took place on a trolleybus in Russia.
The San Miguel volcano (also known as Volcán Chaparrastique) erupted in El Salvador.
China successfully landed its moon rover.
British physicist Stephen Hawking won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most profitable academic prize in the world.
NASA's MAVEN space probe was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in Hawaii.
Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
The Marvel superhero movie 'Thor: The Dark World' premiered in London, UK.
New Zealand singer Lorde released her debut album 'Pure Heroine.'
The Westgate Mall is attacked in Nairobi, Kenya.
The 14th IAAF World Championships opened in Moscow, Russia.
The Paluweh volcano in Indonesia erupted and claimed six lives.
A male cheerleader shot and killed four people, and injured four more at two locations in Dallas, Texas.
A suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Quetta, Pakistan, during the funeral of a police officer.
The world's first lab-grown bovine stem cell burger was consumed in London.
Former US Army Private Chelsea Manning was convicted on 17 espionage charges.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Santiago de Compostela derailment.
Government of Detroit declares bankruptcy.
Seven people were killed when a French passenger train derailed in Brétigny-Sur-Orge.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash lands in San Francisco International Airport.
Coup in Egypt.
Edward Snowden was charged with spying and stealing 'government property.'
Edward Snowden publicly declared that he was the source of the leaked NSA documents.
The trial against whistleblower Bradley Manning begins.
The widest tornado ever recorded hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
Sweden defeated Switzerland in the 2013 World Ice Hockey Championship.
British boy band JLS, known from the talent show X-Factor, announced they had split up.
A garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed.
Paleontologists unearthed dinosaur eggs with embryonic bones inside in China.
The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher died at 87 years old.
The world's largest postage stamp was released.
Water-bearing minerals were discovered on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover.
Pope Francis succeeds Pope Benedict XVI.
Willcom announced the world's smallest and lightest phone.
