Portal:Current events/2014 February 21
February 21, 2014 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Euromaidan:
- The Ukrainian government and opposition agree to form a unity government and to hold early elections. (The Telegraph)
- 2014 Venezuelan protests:
- Twenty-two-year-old Venezuelan beauty queen Génesis Carmona is shot in the head and killed while participating in a student protest against Nicolás Maduro's socialist government. (The New York Times)
Arts and culture
- Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro threatens to expel CNN from the country, alleging that they are helping the opposition. (BBC News)
- Books related to Anne Frank are vandalized across public libraries in Tokyo, Japan. (The New York Times)
Business and economy
- G Asset Investment, a private investment management firm, reports that it has offered to buy a majority of the equity of Barnes & Noble or to buy its digital books business, Nook. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Eleven people are killed when a Libyan Air Force plane crashes from a suspected engine fire in Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia. (CNN)
International relations
- Chinese-U.S. relations:
- The President of the United States, Barack Obama, meets with the Dalai Lama despite warnings from China to cancel the meeting. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- Sudan puts a married Ethiopian woman on trial after being gang-raped because she waited before she reported it. She faces the death penalty for adultery. (The Daily Mail)
Science and technology
- A linguists professor from the University of Bedfordshire manages to decipher 10 of the words in the enigmatic Voynich manuscript. (BBC News)
Sport
- Aogan O' Fearghail is elected as the 38th President of the GAA, and the first from Cavan in the organisation's 130-year history. (The Score) (BBC Sport)