- The Social Democrats, led by Stefan Löfven (pictured), win a plurality in the Swedish general election.
- The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup concludes with theUnited States defeating Serbia in the final.
- South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found guilty of theculpable homicide of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
- Scientists report the first synthesis of germanene, a single-atom-thicknanomaterial that is the germanium equivalent of graphene.
- One of the ships from Franklin's lost expedition, missing since 1845, is discovered off King William Island, Canada.
- Researchers announce that newly described Dendrogramma specimens may represent a previously unknown phylum of animal life.
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