Sunday 27 September 2015

World This Week: 18 May-24 May 2015

18 May 2015
• Joe Root and Charlotte Edwards named England cricketers of the year 2014-15
• EU approved plan to use Naval Force to combat Smugglers and tackle Migration crisis
• US President Obama banned certain military-style equipment provided to US police
• India, South Korea signed 7 agreements to upgrade relations to special strategic partnership level
• UNCTAD released a report titled Global Investment Trends Monitor
• Indian-American Harkeert Singh Saini won Prestigious Police Award in Texas, US

19 May 2015

• UN released World Economic Situation and Prospects Mid-2015 Update
• Maria Elena South, driest place on earth, discovered in Atacama Desert
• 9th Session of the India-South Africa Joint Ministerial Commission held in Durban
• Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
• Tamils in Sri Lanka commemorated war dead for the first time at Mullivaikkal village

20 May 2015

• British magazine SportsPro released World’s 50 Most Marketable 2015 report
• NASA’s Spacecraft provided first direct measurement for Type Ia Supernovae caused by white dwarfs
• Environmental Democracy Index 2015 released; India at 24th position
• Ranjit Singh Baxi elected as Head of Bureau of International Recycling
• Veteran jazz musician Bob Belden passed away
• UBS AG Bank of Switzerland agreed to pay 203 million US dollars for manipulating LIBOR
• Huawei launched LiteOS, world’s most lightweight IoT operating system (OS)

21 May 2015

• US Army developed Blast proof wallpaper to protect soldiers from explosions
• Palmyra, an ancient Syrian city, captured by ISIS militants
• Akhil Reed Amar appointed as member of the National Council on Humanities of US

22 May 2015 
• British actor Terry Sue-Patt passed away

23 May 2015
• Nobel Awardee mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. died

24 May 2015 
• Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany won Monaco Grand Prix of Formula One
• Argentine footballer Cristian Gomez died
• Cannes Films Festival 2015: French director Jacques Audiard bagged Palme d’Or

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