January
A terrific chemical attack on Syria which killed nearly 1400 people along with children shivered the whole world just 2 days before 2014. The first batch of the most dangerous chemicals were loaded on a Danish Ship and were taken out of the country making it as the most important milestone in an international operation.
In the same month a suicide bomber blowed himself up outside a restaurant in Kabul, while two gunmen sneaked in through the back door and open fired in a brazen dinnertime attack killing 21 people.
Suspected Islamic extremists used explosives and heavy guns to attack a village and worshippers during a Christian service in northern Nigeria, killing at least 99 and razing hundreds of homes.
February
On a ferocious attack which killed 36 people in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syria unleashed a wave of airstrikes on more than a dozen opposition-held neighborhood.
The U.N. said the number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan jumped by 34 percent last year as the Taliban stepped up attacks across the country.
Ukraine's interim government draws up a warrant for fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych's arrest in the killing of anti-government protesters last week while Russia issues its strongest condemnation yet of the new leaders in Kiev, saying they came to power as a result of "armed mutiny."
March
Russian troops took over Ukraine's Crimea. The United States and other Western nations vowed a tough response to Russia's military advance in Ukraine and warn Moscow of economic penalties, diplomatic isolation and bolstered allied defenses in Europe. Russia called for a national unity government in Ukraine as it tightened its stranglehold on Crimea in a bold combination of diplomacy and escalating military pressure. A defiant President Vladimir Putin dismissed threats of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions, alleges that "rampaging neo-Nazis" dominate Ukraine's capital and said Russian and Ukrainian soldiers locked in a standoff in Crimea are "brothers in arms." Israeli naval forces seized a ship laden with rockets allegedly bound for militants in the Gaza Strip and officials accused Iran of orchestrating the 5,000-mile (8,000 kilometer) journey. Ukraine lurched toward breakup as lawmakers unanimously declared they want to join Russia and planed to put the decision to voters. President Barack Obama condemned the move and the West imposed the first real sanctions against Russia.Russia was swept up in a patriotic fervor for annexing Crimea with tens of thousands of people thronging Red Square and chanting "Crimea is Russia."
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 239 people on board vanished on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, setting off a massive search for its whereabouts.
April
Russian President Vladimir Putin turned up the heat on Ukraine by threatening to demand advance payment for gas supplies in a move designed to exert economic pressure on Ukraine as it confronts a mutiny by pro-Russian separatists in the east. The U.S. blocked Iran's controversial pick as envoy to the United Nations in a rare diplomatic rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when Washington and Tehran have been seeking a thaw in relations. Ukraine and Russia agreed on a tentative halt to violence and to calm tensions along their shared border after more than a month of Cold-War style military posturing triggered by Moscow's annexation of Crimea.
May
The international effort rescued 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria got a boost when British security experts joined Nigerian and American forces trying to rescue the missing students.
Anger and grief swollen in Turkey after 274 miners die in a coal mine fire and explosion and the fate of up to 150 others remains unclear.
June
Gunmen stormed an airport terminal used for VIP flights and cargo in Karachi, an attack that left at least 29 people dead, including the assailants, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of the Pakistan Taliban.
The U.S. signaled a new willingness to work with Iran to help Iraq stave off an insurgency after years of trying to limit Tehran's influence in Baghdad, a dramatic shift.
July
Israel resumed heavy bombing of Gaza and warns that Hamas "would pay the price" after the Islamic militant group rejected an Egyptian truce plan and instead unleashed more rocket barrages at the Jewish state.
A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine; both Ukraine's government and pro-Russian separatists deny responsibility for downing the aircraft.
August
A strong earthquake in China's southern Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes, killing 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.
Gunmen attacked a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers and killed at least 64 people, prompting Sunni lawmakers to withdraw from talks on forming a new, more inclusive government capable of confronting Islamic extremists who have overrun large swaths of Iraq.
September
Islamic State group extremists released a video purportedly showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff and warn President Barack Obama against further U.S. airstrikes on the group.
President Barack Obama declared that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world and ordered 3,000 U.S. troops to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control.
October
A 17-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousafzai, and a 60-year-old Indian, Kailash Satyarthi, were made co-winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, honored for risking their lives for the rights of children to education and to live lives free of abuse.
Two Japanese scientists and a Japanese-born American won the Nobel Prize for physics for inventing a new kind of light-emitting diode or LED that promises to revolutionize the way the world lights its offices and homes.
The World Health Organization said more than 10,000 had been infected with Ebola and nearly half of them had died as the outbreak continued to spread.
November
China and the United States reached a ground-breaking agreement to curb carbon emissions that are blamed for climate change in a bid to spur other nations to take equally aggressive action ahead of a climate change conference in Paris next year.
President Barrack Obama defied Congress and ordered sweeping changes in U.S. immigration policy that could affect as many as 5 million living illegally in the U.S. and set off one of the biggest political confrontations of his presidency.
December
The horrific attack of Taliban gunmen on a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, killing 134 children, 5 teachers and 3 armymen.
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