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Former hostages and Syrian rebel commanders say that they offered information they believed could help free American captives, but that officials seemed uninterested.
The head of the agency searching for Flight 8501 said that he believed the aircraft was âat the bottom of the seaâ and warned that the country lacked adequate equipment for an underwater search.
William J. Bratton, the New York City police commissioner, criticized the actions of scores of officers who turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio at one point during a slain officerâs funeral.
Two new clinics in Haiti for treating cholera and tuberculosis could be models for other struggling countries that lack resources for high-end Western-style hospitals.
A storyteller and music are used in âThe Play of Daniel,â part of the Trinity Wall Street Twelfth Night Festival.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 2014, covering December 28, 2014.
J. Cole
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Carrie Underwood
AC/DC
2014Leelah Alcorn, American transgender teenager (born 1997)[â ]
Leelah Alcorn was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention. Prior to her death, she had posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog about societal standards affecting transgender people and expressing the hope that her death would create a dialogue about discrimination, abuse, and lack of support for transgender people.
2014Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (born 1956)[â ]
Vahan Hovhannisyan was an Armenian politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). He was Vice-President of the National Assembly of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and was a candidate in the February 2008 presidential election.
2014Frankie Randall, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)[â ]
Frankie Randall was an American singer and pianist.
2014Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.[â ]
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, to Singapore. On 28 December 2014, the Airbus A320-216 flying the route crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 of the people on board. When search operations ended in March 2015, only 116 bodies had been recovered. This is the first crash and only fatal accident involving Indonesia AirAsia.
2014Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.[â ]
MS Norman Atlantic was a roll-on/roll-off passenger (ROPAX) ferry owned by the Italian ferry company Visemar di Navigazione. The ferry was chartered by ANEK Lines from December 2014. On 28 December 2014, she caught fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]