Economic

• Great Recession
  • Eurozone crisis
  • Greek government-debt crisis

Environmental

• 2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2014 Pacific typhoon season

Political

• Bosnia and Herzegovina unrest
• Crimea unrest
• Global surveillance disclosures
• Pro-EU protests in Ukraine
• South Sudan conflict
• Thailand political crisis
• Venezuela protests

More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sports

• Six Nations Championship

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February

• 27: Aaron Allston
• 27: Huber Matos
• 26: Tim Wilson
• 25: Carlos Gracida
• 25: Jim Lange
• 25: Paco de Lucía
• 24: Franny Beecher
• 24: Harold Ramis
• 24: Carlos Páez Vilaró
• 23: Alice Herz-Sommer
• 23: Mike Parker
• 22: Charlotte Dawson
• 21: Sakis Boulas
• 20: Walter D. Ehlers
• 20: Roger Hill
• 20: Garrick Utley
• 19: Simón Díaz
• 19: Dale Gardner
• 19: Valeri Kubasov
• 18: Nelson Frazier, Jr.
• 18: Mavis Gallant
• 18: Buddy Leake
• 18: Maria Franziska von Trapp
• 17: Richard N. Cabela
• 17: Bob Casale
• 15: Mary Grace Canfield
• 15: Christopher Malcolm
• 15: Horst Rechelbacher
• 14: Tom Finney
• 14: Jim Fregosi
• 14: John Henson
• 14: Mike Stepovich
• 13: Ken Jones
• 13: Balu Mahendra
• 13: Richard Møller Nielsen
• 13: Ralph Waite
• 12: Sid Caesar
• 12: Maggie Estep
• 11: Roy Alvarez
• 10: Els Borst
• 10: Stuart Hall
• 10: Shirley Temple
• 9: Gabriel Axel
• 9: Marius
• 8: Nancy Holt
• 8: Maicon Pereira de Oliveira
• 7: Arthur J. Hubbard, Sr.
• 7: Tado
• 6: Ralph Kiner
• 6: Maxine Kumin
• 6: Marty Plissner
• 5: Richard Hayman
• 5: Juthika Roy
• 4: Hazel Sampson
• 4: Keith Allen
• 4: Wu Ma
• 3: Louise Brough
• 3: Richard Bull
• 3: Óscar González
• 3: Gloria Leonard
• 3: Joan Mondale
• 3: Barry Rubin
• 2: Tommy Aquino
• 2: Philip Seymour Hoffman
• 2: Luis Raúl
• 2: Bunny Rugs
• 1: Luis Aragonés
• 1: René Ricard
• 1: Maximilian Schell
• 1: Gordon Zacks

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Global

• War on Drugs
• War on Terror
  • Operation Active Endeavour
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
  • Terrorist incidents in 2014

Africa

• Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Maghreb insurgency
• OEF – Horn of Africa
• OEF – Trans Sahara

• Central African Republic
  • Civil conflict

• Egypt
  • Post-coup unrest
  • Sinai insurgency

• Libya
  • Post-civil war interfactional fighting

• Nigeria
  • Niger Delta conflict
  • Islamist insurgency in Nigeria

• Somalia
  • Civil war

• Sudan and South Sudan
  • Sudan internal conflict
  • South Sudan internal conflict

Americas

• Colombian conflict
• Mexican Drug War

Asia

• Afghanistan War
  • Military operations
  • Taliban insurgency

• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Korea
  • Korean maritime border conflict

• Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict
  • North-West War
  • Sectarian violence

• Philippines
  • Communist insurgency
  • Moro insurgency

• Russia
  • North Caucasus insurgency

• Southeast Asia
  • Cambodian–Thai border dispute
  • Kachin conflict
  • Papua conflict
  • South Thailand insurgency
  • Territorial disputes in the South China Sea

Europe

• Dissident Irish Republican campaign
• War in Ingushetia

Middle East

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Israel–Iran proxy conflict

• Iraqi insurgency

• Kurdistan
  • Kurdish–Iranian conflict

• Syrian Civil War

• Yemen
  • al-Qaeda crackdown
  • Shia insurgency
  • South Yemen insurgency

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Recent: February

• 2: Costa Rica, President (1st round) and parliament
• 2: El Salvador, President (1st round)
• 2: Thailand, General
• 9: Switzerland, Referendum
• 20: Libya, Constitutional Assembly

Upcoming: March

• 9: Colombia, Parliament
• 9: El Salvador, President (2nd round)
• 9: North Korea, Parliament
• 15: Slovakia, President (1st round)
• 16: Serbia, Parliament
• 22: Maldives, Parliament
• 29: Slovakia, President (2nd round)

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Recently concluded

• Canada: Michael Thomas Rafferty
• China: Bo Xilai
• Croatia: Ivo Sanader
• Germany: Breno Borges
• Italy: Silvio Berlusconi
• Netherlands: Ante Gotovina ( ICTY), Mladen Markač ( ICTY), Momčilo Perišić ( ICTY)
• Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Vladimir Kvachkov, Pussy Riot
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor ( SCFSL)
• South Africa: Chris Mahlangu
• Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko
• United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Levi Bellfield, Robert Black, Vincent Tabak, Ali Dizaei, Antoni Imiela, Brian Regan, Donna Air, Ched Evans, Clayton McDonald, Titus Bramble, Dan Penteado, John Terry, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Asil Nadir, Justin Lee Collins, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Kevin Liverpool, Junior Bradshaw, Aggro Santos, Stuart Hall, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Michael Le Vell, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis
• United States: Noshir Gowadia, Buju Banton, Barry Bonds, Raj Rajaratnam, Casey Anthony, Conrad Murray, George Huguely, Allen Stanford, Roger Clemens, Jerry Sandusky, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Crystal Mangum

Ongoing

• Australia: Craig Thomson
• Brazil: Mensalão scandal
• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: Luka Magnotta
• China: Organized crime in Chongqing
• Egypt: Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak
• France: Church of Scientology
• Germany: Christian Wulff, Beate Zschäpe
• Hong Kong: Alfredo Lim
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga ( ICC), Radovan Karadžić ( ICTY), Ratko Mladic (ICTY)
• Palau: Tommy Remengesau
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Jinggoy Estrada, Gregorio Honasan, Janet Lim-Napoles, Bongbong Marcos, Imelda Marcos, Nur Misuari, Manny Pacquiao, Jovito Palparan, Juan Ponce Enrile, Bong Revilla
• Russia: Platon Lebedev
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• Turkey: Ergenekon network, Kenan Evren
• United Kingdom: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Eddy Shah, Koo Stark
• United States: Jodi Arias

Upcoming

• France: Éric Raoult
• Germany: Bernie Ecclestone
• Ivory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo
• Jordan: Abu Qatada
• Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• South Africa: Oscar Pistorius
• United Kingdom: Dane Bowers, Max Clifford, Rolf Harris, Nicholas Jacobs
• United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Peter Madoff, Christian Gerhartsreiter, Dylan Quick, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Anas al-Libi, Bob McDonnell

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