David Eastman The murder conviction of David Eastman for allegedly killing former Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester is quashed after Eastman has served a 19-year prison sentence.
Egypt 44 people are killed and 41 injured after two buses crash in the south of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 The bodies and ashes of twenty Malaysian victims who died when the flight was shot down over Ukraine in July have been returned to Kuala Lumpur.
Landslide The death toll from landslides in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture rises to 39 with 26 missing.
Attack a Sunni mosque A suicide bomber and multiple gunmen, suspected to be Shia militiamen, attack a Sunni mosque in the Diyala province, killing at least 65 people.
Eastern Ukraine Russian aid convoys enter eastern Ukraine without permission from the Ukrainian government, sparking condemnation from the US, the EU, and NATO, and prompting the UN to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the action. No other country sent humanitarian aid to the region.
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict A 4-year-old boy is killed in a mortar attack on a southern Israeli village near the Gaza border; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu vows that military operations will "intensify" because of his death. The IDF claims the mortar was fired from a school used as a shelter by Hamas.
At least 18 people are executed in public by Hamas after being accused of "collaborating" with Israel. Al Majd, a Hamas website, warns that future suspects will be dealt with "in the field" rather than the courts.
Syrian civil war The United Nations estimates that the death toll in Syria has doubled to at least 191,000 in the past year.