In the news Posted on 16 September 2014 at 23:16 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.