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Cornflour, corn starch, cornstarch, or maize starch is the starch powder derived from corn (maize) grain. The starch is obtained from the endosperm of the kernel. It was developed …
Ignition of corn starch caused a dust fire at a water park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring mo
Thalys was a brand name used for high-speed train services between Paris Gare du Nord and both Amsterdam Centraal and German cities in the Rhein-Ruhr, including Aachen, Cologne, Dü…
Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.
The Parliament of Malta is the constitutional legislative body in Malta, located in Valletta. The parliament is unicameral, with a democratically elected House of Representatives a…
The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built Parliament House (pictured)
A major earthquake occurred in Nepal on 12 May 2015 at 12:50 pm local time with a moment magnitude of 7.2–7.3, 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Kodari. The epicenter was on the b…
An earthquake in Nepal killed 218 people and injured more than 3,500 others
On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train from Washington, D.C., bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor near the Kensington neighborhood o…
A train derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others in Philadelphia
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnation…
Islamic State militants entered the ancient city of Palmyra
MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China. On the night of 1 June 2015, the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when…
The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime mari
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white peop…
A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Car
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The U
The Indonesian Air Force is the aerial branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. The Indonesian Air Force is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is headed by the Chief o…
An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft (pictured) crashed near a residential neighborhood in Medan, killing
The Suruç bombing was a suicide attack by the Turkish sect of Islamic State named Dokumacılar against Turkish leftists that took place in the Suruç district of Şanlıurfa Province i…
A suicide attack (aftermath pictured) in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed th…
United States Environmental Protection Agency personnel accidentally caused a spillage (aftermath pictured) of…
On 16 August 2015, two suspected suicide bombers detonated explosives at the political office of Punjab Interior Minister Shuja Khanzada in the Attock District village of Shadi Kha…
Suicide bombers assassinated Pakistani politician Shuja Khanzada and killed at least 21 others at his home in Attock…
On 22 August 2015, a Hawker Hunter T7 warbird crashed onto a main road during an aerial display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring…
A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.
On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally…
Two American journalists were murdered on live television while conducting an interview in Moneta, Virginia.
The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2025 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Leg…
The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leadi
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with t…
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but on…
A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people
Kerala Blasters Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Blasters, is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala, that competes in the Indian Super League (IS…
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed
On 30 July 2014, a landslide occurred in the village of Malin in the Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district in Maharashtra, India. The landslide, which hit early in the morning while…
Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
On 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, following reports of gas leaks earlier that night. Thirty-two people…
Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and injure more than 270.
The 2014 Kunshan explosion was a dust explosion that occurred at Zhongrong Metal Production Company, an automotive parts factory located in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China, on 2 August 201…
At least 146 people were killed and more than 114 injured in a factory explosion in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
The Yazidi genocide also known as the 74th firman by Yazidis, was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. It was characterized by massacres, genoc…
The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
Taavi Aulis Rytkönen was a Finnish footballer. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952.
Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (born 1929)