## [2015-04-8](/feed/2015/04/8/index.md)

##### Boston Marathon bombings
### [Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receives a guilty verdict on all legal charges against him. ](/feed/2015/04/8/boston-marathon-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-receives-a-guilty-verdict-on-all-legal-charges-against-him.md)
##### Shipwreck
### [A shipwreck off the Haiti coast claims the life of 21 people. ](/feed/2015/04/8/a-shipwreck-off-the-haiti-coast-claims-the-life-of-21-people.md)
##### Dragon Aromatics
### [At the Dragon Aromatics chemical plant in Fujian in southeast China, a fourth tank of about 1,500 tonnes of liquid hydrocarbon catches fire and explodes. More than 14,000 residents have been evacuated. ](/feed/2015/04/8/at-the-dragon-aromatics-chemical-plant-in-fujian-in-southeast-china-a-fourth-tank-of-about-1500-tonnes-of-liquid-hydro.md)
##### French
### [A French air traffic controllers strike causes the cancellation of hundreds of flights throughout Europe. ](/feed/2015/04/8/a-french-air-traffic-controllers-strike-causes-the-cancellation-of-hundreds-of-flights-throughout-europe.md)
##### Shell
### [Royal Dutch Shell purchases rival BG Group for around $70 billion. ](/feed/2015/04/8/royal-dutch-shell-purchases-rival-bg-group-for-around-70-billion.md)
##### Sinai insurgency
### [Eleven civilians and two Egyptian Army soldiers have been killed in three attacks in the northern Sinai Peninsula. ](/feed/2015/04/8/eleven-civilians-and-two-egyptian-army-soldiers-have-been-killed-in-three-attacks-in-the-northern-sinai-peninsula.md)
##### Afghans
### [A gunfight erupts between Afghan soldiers and U.S. soldiers working for NATO's Resolute Support Mission leaving 1 Afghan and 1 U.S. soldier dead, and 3 Afghan and 2 U.S. soldiers wounded. ](/feed/2015/04/8/a-gunfight-erupts-between-afghan-soldiers-and-us-soldiers-working-for-nato-s-resolute-support-mission-leaving-1-afghan.md)
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