Current Events

• Spotlight wins Best Picture and Mad Max: Fury Road wins six awards at the Alan Rickman.
• Thirty-six people are killed in an explosion in a coal mine near Vorkuta, Russia.
• The Jamaica Labour Party, led   wins a narrow majority in the Jamaican general election.
•  Tara Air Flight 193 crashes in Nepal, killing all twenty-three people on board.
• In motorsport, Denny Hamlin (pictured) wins the Daytona 500 by 0.01 seconds, the narrowest margin in the race's history.

• Ongoing events:
  • Zika virus outbreak
  • European migrant crisis
• Recent deaths:
  • Douglas Slocombe

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