2014 Afghan presidential election Voters in Afghanistan go to the polls for the second round of voting with the Taliban threatening polling booths. Dozens of people are killed across the country.
Alexander Stubb Alexander Stubb is elected new leader of the National Coalition Party and thus the new prime minister of Finland, the first Swedish-speaking Finn to hold the post since 1959.
Syrian civil war A bomb explodes in the town of al-Mayadin in Deir al-Zor province near the Iraqi border killing eight.
2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, killing all 49 people on board.