Portal:Current events/2014 September 15
September 15, 2014 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Donbass:
- Heavy shelling on the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, leaves 6 people dead and 15 wounded. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
Business and economics
- Information technology company Cognizant agrees to buy health care information company TriZetto Corporation for US$2.7 billion. (New York Times)
- Microsoft agrees to buy Swedish company Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, for US$2.5 billion. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- An accidental fire severely burns a giant white rabbit erected by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in Taoyuan, Taiwan. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia) (New York Times)
- Five hundred people drowned off the coast of Malta last week after people traffickers deliberately sank their ship. (Reuters)
- Two wildfires around Bass Lake, California, USA, cause the destruction of 21 homes and the evacuation of over 1,000 people. (The Weather Channel)
Politics and elections
- Ewa Kopacz becomes Poland's second female prime minister. (Reuters)
- Swedish Minister of Finance Anders Borg quits politics after he was considered to be the next leader of the Moderate Party, which he did not want. (Wall Street Journal)