2014 Montgomery County shootings, Events, Victims
Officials released the causes of death for the slain victims. Patricia Flick was killed by gunshot wounds to her right forearm and face, also suffering from an incision wound to her head; Aaron Flick was killed by gunshot wounds to his right hand and head along with stab wounds to his arm and head; and Nina Flick died from twelve stab wounds to her head and an incision wound to the back of her neck. Patricia Hill was slashed in the left forearm and fatally shot in the head, near her right eye, while Joanne Hill died after being shot in the face and having her throat slashed. Nicole Hill suffered a gunshot wound to her hand and two fatal ones to the face.


2014 Montgomery County shootings, Perpetrator
Bradley William Stone, a 35-year-old resident of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was identified as the attacker. He was reported to be a military veteran who had been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, although there was no evidence to indicate a diagnosis.


2014 Montgomery County shootings, Perpetrator
Stone was enlisted in 2002 as a reservist in the United States Marine Corps, mainly as a meteorologist. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion 14th Marines, a reserve artillery battalion in Philadelphia. Stone had one deployment to Iraq that started on April 17, 2008, and ended on July 2 of the same year. He left service sometime later that year, although he remained on individual ready reserve until 2011. Stone left with the rank of sergeant, according to a Marine spokesperson. Stone was reportedly being treated for unspecified combat-related physical injuries.


2014 Montgomery County shootings, Perpetrator
On December 8, he met a psychiatrist at a Veterans Affairs medical center, and was found to have no suicidal or homicidal ideation. He had pleaded guilty in November 2013 to an April 28 vehicular crash caused by drunken driving. As part of his sentence, he was participating in a county rehabilitation program for veterans. Stone had previously had two other drunken-driving incidents, one that occurred in 2001 and the other in 2004.


2014 Montgomery County shootings, Perpetrator
Stone and Nicole Hill married in 2004 and filed for divorce in 2009. The two officially divorced in 2012. They had reportedly been clashing over custody of their two daughters and other matters for some time. On December 5, Stone filed an emergency petition, and Nicole responded with a counterclaim four days later, according to court records. Stone's efforts to gain custody of his daughters reportedly increased after Hill sought treatment for drug abuse. Hill allegedly told neighbors that she was afraid for her life and that she was sure Stone was going to kill her. Stone remarried in August 2013 and had recently fathered a child with his second wife. Prior to the killings, Stone legally purchased at least two handguns, including the .40-caliber Heckler & Koch and the 9mm Beretta used in the killings.


2014 Montgomery County shootings, Reactions
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expressed "heartfelt condolences" to the victims of the killings. It also announced its intention to conduct a comprehensive review of the care Stone received from the Veterans Affairs medical centers.


2014 Montreal Alouettes season
The 2014 Montreal Alouettes season was the 48th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 60th overall. The Alouettes finished the season in 2nd place in the East Division with a 9–9 record. The Alouettes improved upon their 8–10 record from 2013 with their 9th win in their 17th game and qualified for the playoffs for the 19th straight season in that same game. The team defeated the BC Lions in the East Semi-Final, but lost the East Final to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The Alouettes set a CFL record as they were the first team to fall six games below .500 with a 1-7 record and finish with a .500 record or better.


2014 Montreal Alouettes season, Offseason, CFL Draft
The 2014 CFL Draft took place on May 13, 2014. The Alouettes had eight selections in the seven-round draft, after acquiring an additional fourth round selection for Dahrran Diedrick.


2014 Montreal Alouettes season, Team, Roster
Italics indicate Import players updated 2014-11-21 • 46 Active, 11 Injured, 8 6-Game Injured, 9 Practice, 1 Suspended


2014 Montreal Impact season
The 2014 Montreal Impact season was the club's third season Major League Soccer, the top flight of both American and Canadian soccer.


2014 Montreal Impact season
For the 2014 season, outside of MLS, the Impact competed in the 2014 Canadian Championship, Canada's domestic cup competition and the CONCACAF Champions League.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Background
Alessandro Nesta retired after last season. Options were declined for Paolo DelPiccolo, Maximiliano Leonel Rodríguez, and Siniša Ubiparipović. Zarek Valentin left on a free transfer to FK Bodø/Glimt. Nelson Rivas became a free agent. Loans ended for Andrés Romero, Daniele Paponi, and Andrea Pisanu. Davy Arnaud was traded for an international roster slot in 2014 and 2015. Marco Schallibaum was fired as head coach. Frank Klopas replaced Schallibaum. Montreal opened pre–season training camp on January 28 and will participate in the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic.


2014 Montreal Impact season, International caps
Players called for senior international duty during the 2014 season while under contract with the Montreal Impact.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Review
The Montreal Impact started their season on March 8 against FC Dallas with a 3–2 loss. Sanna Nyassi and Andrew Wenger scored for Montreal and Fabián Castillo, Blas Pérez, and Mauro Díaz scored for Dallas. Marco Di Vaio and Andrés Romero are suspended for the first 3 matches of the season. Montreal went on to face Houston Dynamo on March 2. Houston won 1–0 from a deflected shot by Will Bruin. Patrice Bernier had a 30–yard shot "pushed" over the crossbar and Andrew Wenger had a shot cleared over the crossbar.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Table
(SS) = Supporters Shield winner; (E1) = Eastern Conference champion; (W1) = Western Conference champion


2014 Montreal Impact season, Competitions, Major League Soccer, Results summary
Last updated: October 26, 2014Source: 2014 Major League Soccer seasonPld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won;  D = Matches drawn;  L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference


2014 Montreal Impact season, Canadian championship, Bracket
The three Major League Soccer and two NASL Canadian clubs have been seeded according to their final position in 2013 league play, with both NASL clubs playing in the preliminary round, the winner of which advances to the semifinals.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Canadian championship, Bracket
All rounds of the competition are played via a two leg home and away knock-out format. The higher seeded team has the option of deciding which leg it plays at home, usually the second leg. The team which scores the greater aggregate of goals in the two matches advances. As previous years, the team that comes on top on aggregate for the two matches is declared champion and earns the right to represent Canada in the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Top scorers
Updated to match played October 25, 2014Source: Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Top assists
Updated to match played October 22, 2014Source: Italic: denotes player left the club during the season.


2014 Montreal Impact season, Player information, Other player information, International roster slots
Montreal has eleven MLS International Roster Slots for use in the 2014 season. Each club in Major League Soccer is allocated eight international roster spots and Montreal acquired the extra slots in trades with Colorado Rapids, Seattle Sounders FC and 2 from D.C. United. The Montreal Impact traded 1 of their slots to FC Dallas


2014 Montreux Volley Masters
The 2014 Montreux Volley Masters was a women's volleyball competition held in Montreux, Switzerland between May 27 – June 1, 2014. Eight teams participated in this tournament.


2014 Montreux Volley Masters
Germany defeated United States to win their first title, with Margareta Kozuch being awarded Most Valuable Player.


2014 Montserratian general election
General elections were held in Montserrat on 11 September 2014. The result was a victory for the newly established People's Democratic Movement, which won seven of the nine elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.


2014 Montserratian general election, Electoral system
At the time of the election, the Legislative Assembly had eleven members, of which nine were elected. The other two seats were taken by the Attorney General and the Financial Secretary. The territory was a single nine-member constituency, with voters able to vote for nine candidates on their ballot paper.


2014 Montserratian general election, Campaign
A new party, the People's Democratic Movement (PDM), was established by leader of the opposition Donaldson Romeo on 30 April 2014, in order to contest the elections. A total 31 candidates contested the elections; the ruling Movement for Change and Prosperity and the PDM both put forward a full slate of nine candidates, the Alliance of Independent Candidates had three independent candidates, with ten other independents also running.


2014 Morehead State Eagles football team
The 2014 Morehead State Eagles football team represented Morehead State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Rob Tenyer and played their home games at Jayne Stadium. They were a member of the Pioneer Football League. They finished the season 4–8, 3–5 in PFL play to finish in a tie for seventh place.


2014 Morelos Open
The 2014 Morelos Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition  was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour, offering prize money of $75,000 on 17–23 February 2014.


2014 Morelos Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Morelos Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players used protected ranking to gain entry into the singles main draw :


2014 Morelos Open – Doubles
Martin and Melzer won the title, defeating Alejandro Moreno Figueroa and Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela in the final, 6–2, 6–4.


2014 Morelos Open – Singles
Melzer won the title, defeating Víctor Estrella Burgos in the final, 6–1, 6–4.


2014 Morgan State Bears football team
The 2014 Morgan State Bears football team represented Morgan State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Lee Hull and played their home games at Hughes Stadium. They were a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MAC). Morgan State finished the season 7–6 overall and 6–2 in MEAC play to finish in a five-way tie for a share of the conference championship. After tiebreakers, they received the conference's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they lost in the first round to Richmond.


2014 Moroccan census
The 2014 Moroccan census was held in Morocco between 1 September and 20 September 2014. The census was conducted by the High Planning Commission.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra
The 2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Kenitra, Morocco between 22 and 27 September.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra – Doubles
Gerard Granollers and Jordi Samper-Montaña were the defending champions, but they lost in the final to Dino Marcan and Antonio Šančić, 1–6, 6–7(3–7).


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra – Singles
Dominic Thiem was the defending champion, but he did not participate that year.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Kenitra – Singles
Daniel Gimeno-Traver won the title, defeating Albert Ramos in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes
The 2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Meknes, Morocco between 15 and 20 September 2014.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes – Doubles
Alessandro Giannessi and Gianluca Naso were the defending champions. Giannessi did not compete, while Naso partnered Alessio di Mauro, and lost in the first round to Gerard Granollers and Jordi Samper Montaña.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes – Doubles
Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Stefano Travaglia won the title, defeating Granollers and Samper Montaña in the final, 6–2, 6–7(4–7), [10–7].


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes – Singles
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe was the defending champion, but did not compete that year.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Meknes – Singles
Kimmer Coppejans won the title, defeating Lucas Pouille in the final, 4–6, 6–2, 6–2. It was his first Challenger title in his career.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia
The 2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mohammedia, Morocco between 16 and 21 June 2014.


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia – Doubles
Fabiano de Paula and Mohamed Safwat won the title, defeating Richard Becker and Élie Rousset in the final, 6–2, 3–6, [10–6].


2014 Morocco Tennis Tour – Mohammedia – Singles
Pablo Carreño won the title, defeating Daniel Muñoz de la Nava in the final 7–6(7–2), 2–6, 6–2.


2014 Mosconi Cup
The 2014 partypoker Mosconi Cup, the 21st edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing Europe and the United States, took place 1–4 December 2014 at the Tower Circus in Blackpool, England.


2014 Moscow City Duma election
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2014 Moscow City Duma election
Election to the 6th convocation of the Moscow City Duma took place on the United Voting Day on September 14, 2014. The elections were held in full by the majority system, 45 deputies were elected in 45 single-member constituencies (previously there were 35 deputies in the Duma) out of 258 candidates. The term of the new Duma will be five years. The elections were held on September 14 on more than 3,500 ballots in the city. The final results were announced on September 16, 2014.


2014 Moscow City Duma election
17 deputies from the previous City Duma retained their seats. After processing 100% of the ballots, the leaders of the vote were: 28 people nominated by the United Russia party, 5 by the Communist Party, 1 by the LDPR, 1 by Rodina, and 10 by self-nominees supported by United Russia.


2014 Moscow City Duma election, Background
The elections to the Moscow City Duma in 2014 have a number of innovations in comparison with the previous ones:


2014 Moscow City Duma election, Background
There was a transition from a mixed to a completely single-mandate system of formation of the Moscow City Duma .


2014 Moscow City Duma election, Background
The scheme for the election of the Moscow City Duma only in single-mandate constituencies was previously used from 1993 to 2001. The number of deputies with a decrease in their status is increasing. Three quarters of deputies will work on a non-permanent basis. The initiative was strengthened by allowing also to combine the senator's post in the Federation Council from Moscow and the Moscow City Duma deputy.


2014 Moscow City Duma election, Background
There was an abolition of absentee certificates on the initiative of Sergei Sobyanin. At the same time, this innovation coincided with the return to the regional elections of early voting.


2014 Moscow City Duma election, Background
The primaries "My Moscow" were held. As a result, in 45 districts, the party of power, United Russia, nominated only 32 candidates from its ranks, the rest of the public from the primaries. In one district, "United Russia" did not nominate its candidate. Video surveillance in the elections of the City Duma has not been used before. For the first time, cameras were installed in the ballots.


2014 Moscow City Duma election, Background, Rumors about early elections
In September 2013, Moscow's territorial election commissions began to receive information that elections could be postponed from September to March 2014. For this, allegedly in December 2013 MHD V convocation was to self-dissolve, but this did not happen.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment
On 15 July 2014, at around 8:40 am MSK (UTC+04:00), an outbound Moscow Metro train derailed between Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulvar stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Casualties reported include 24 dead and 160 injured. Early reports suggested a power surge or a terrorist attack to be the cause of the derailment, but both were soon dismissed.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment
This accident was the deadliest ever recorded in the history of the Moscow metro system, and the second to occur due to a technical failure (after the 1982 Aviamotornaya escalator accident).


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Background
The Moscow Metro, one of the busiest in the world and serving up to nine million passengers on a daily basis, covered 325.4 kilometres (202.2 mi) of route and included 194 stations at the time of the derailment. Despite having a reputation for reliability, the system had been increasingly suffering from mismanagement, cost-cutting practices, poor maintenance and outages in recent years.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Background
According to several media reports, a Facebook user announced that two weeks prior to the disaster, he filed an official request to the head of the underground system reporting "problems with the tracks." The user quoted from the reply received in his e-mail: "The tracks are maintained in conformity with the technical standards and tolerances. Problems with mechanical switches in the joints have not been detected, being that the size of the gaps correspond to the technical regulations."


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Derailment
The derailment occurred 300 metres (980 ft) away from the Park Pobedy station outbound towards the Slavyansky Bulvar station, near the railroad switch to a then-unused track for the western section of the Kalininskaya Line. The switch was installed a few weeks prior to the accident, as part of a construction project initiated in 2013 that was working to extend the Kalininskaya Line to the western part of Solntsevo District. Surviving passengers who were unable to cross the debris were evacuated through several construction drifts leading to the surface shaft.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Derailment
The derailment also caused a massive power outage on the line; another train, which was located in the tunnel at the time of accident some 200 metres (660 ft) from Slavyansky Bulvar, was also stuck, and passengers had to be evacuated. There were no medical injuries reported from that train.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Derailment
Early reports cited a power surge as the cause of the accident, but this has not been confirmed and remains under investigation. Passengers on the train described cars striking one another, with most of the impact occurring at the front of the train. The first car, where all of the deaths reportedly occurred, had jackknifed in on itself, and the cars behind it piled up on each other. The final two cars remained on the tracks and were only slightly damaged.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Victims
There were 24 killed in the accident (22 initially, 2 in hospitals), and about 118 were hospitalized. Seventeen of the victims were Russian citizens, and the remaining victims included 2 citizens of Tajikistan, 2 citizens of China, and one person each from Ukraine, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan. About 42 people remained in "serious condition". Another 200 people were evacuated from the Metro; those with injuries were attended outside the station. Initial reports stated that an additional 20 passengers remained underground, trapped in one of the cars. The train operator, a 29-year-old man, survived the crash, but was badly injured and had to undergo cranial surgery.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Victims
The train derailed right in front of our carriage. The carriage that was across the tracks had a small fire in it and was full of smoke. We took the fire extinguishers and started to extinguish the fire. We then broke down the door into the next tunnel and some of the people who were able to move started to walk from the next carriage towards Metro workers, who led them towards the tunnel, which led upstairs. It had an elevator, but it wasn't very big, so first of all we put the injured in the elevator.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Victims
A spokesperson for the transport commission indicated that all passengers were "evacuated from the affected stations by midday". Terrorist threat was suspected, but quickly dismissed in this case. In the early morning of 17 July, personnel finished clearing away the debris and reported another casualty. In total, 17 corpses were removed from the debris, with the remainder of the victims succumbing to critical injuries within 24 hours of rescue. The tunnel was reportedly ready for repairs and night time maintenance as of 1:00 am local time on 18 July and restored to full functionality around 6:00 am.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Investigation
On 15 July 2014, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal investigation of the accident, according to part 3 of Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code (violation of the requirements of transport safety). Supervising examination of the accident site, investigators interviewed witnesses and employees. Vladimir Markin, the Committee's official representative, said that several causes for the accident were being considered, but that all were technical, there being no connection with terrorist attacks. He stated that certain people would be investigated and suspects would be identified.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Investigation
On 16 July 2014, a senior track master and his assistant, who had worked on the installation of the new switch, were detained on a charge of negligence. According to investigators, they installed it incorrectly two months previously using a 3 mm (0.12 in) wire instead of special equipment to forcibly lock the switch, as it led to a yet incomplete tunnel. This wire could have failed and got the switch stuck in an intermediate position, derailing the train. Unprofessional operation of the train was said to have been another contributing factor, as the previous train that had passed over the switch 3 to 4 minutes before the accident had been traveling at a lower speed, and thus had not derailed.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Investigation
On 22 July 2014, Ivan Besedin, chief executive of the Moscow Metro, was removed from office by Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. Besedin was replaced by former chief executive of the high speed railway branch of Russian Railways, Dmitry Pegov, in order to restore Muscovites' faith in the metro safety.


2014 Moscow Metro derailment, Verdicts
The first trial on the matter ended and the verdicts were announced on 9 November 2015. Track master assistant Yuri Gordov was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment, track repair deputy director Aleksei Trofimov, senior track master Valeri Bashkatov and deputy director of the subcontractor company "Spetstekhrekonstruktsiya" Anatoli Kruglov each were sentenced to 5.5 years of imprisonment. There is a separate investigation involving six additional defendants that was still ongoing at the time of conclusion of the first trial.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade took place in Red Square on 9 May 2014 to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945, which formally ended hostilities in the Second World War in Europe. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in the Great Patriotic War on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies in Berlin, at midnight of May 9, 1945 (Russian time). President of Russia Vladimir Putin delivered his eleventh holiday address to the nation on this day.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics
Members of the Presidential Cavalry Squadron of the Kremlin Regiment took part in the part to honour the contributions of the Red Army Cavalry Corps Joining the parade for the first time were the cadets of the Tver Suvorov Military School and the Kronstadt Sea Cadet Corps. In the mobile column, the Tor-M2U air-defense missile systems, the 9M123 Khrizantema tracked tank destroyers and Typhoon-K APCs were also seen.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics
This year's mobile column had a record 149 military vehicles in attendance, with 69 planes (including for the very first time 4 Yak-130s from a newly formed air aerobatics group, the "tactical air wing" formation by pilots from the Lipetsk State Aviation Center and also for the first time, in a late addition to compensate for the absences of the Russian Knights and Swifts aerobatics teams that were in Sevastopol, four brand-new Mil Mi-35s) forming the fly-past.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergey Shoigu inspected the parade for the second time, and this year's parade commander was the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel General Oleg Salyukov.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics, Preparation
Beginning in November/December 2013, preparations for the parade were well attended at the unit level. Individual unit practices were held in the various military installations for all the participating units. Full -scale rehearsals officially started on March 31, 2014, in the Alabino training grounds in Moscow Oblast, with the rehearsals there to formally conclude in April the same year in order to prepare for the practice runs in Moscow's Red Square in May.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics, Preparation
Also rehearsing for the parade are the massed military bands of the Armed Forces and the Moscow Garrison, all to be conducted for the 12th straight year by Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov, the Senior Director of Music of the Bands Service of the Russian Armed Forces, and the units and vehicles forming the mobile column. Practice runs for the Russian Knights and Swifts air aerobatics teams that formed part of the fly past column commenced on April 6, 2014. A first general practice run (without the flypast) was held in the Alabino grounds on April 7, 2014, with another run finished on the 11th.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics, Preparation
April 16, 2014 saw the first joint practice run of the parade at the Alabino grounds including the fly past column for the first time. Also found joining the parade for the first time in 4 years was the 1st Cavalry Squadron from the Presidential Cavalry Escort Battalion, Kremlin Regiment. The Moscow leg of the practice runs commenced on April 21, 2014 with the mobile column driving its way along Tverskaya Street for its first practice run in the capital. This was followed by the first night practice runs on Red Square itself, joined by the bands, the marching troops and the mobile column, which began on April 29 to 30.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade specifics, Preparation
The air flypast column held a practice run above the skies of Moscow on May 3, 2014. All 69 planes joining this year's parade took part, and the run-through was cheered on by both Muscovites and tourists alike. A final nighttime practice run was held on May 5 on Moscow's Red Square. And on May 7, despite the cold weather earlier that day, a final parade practice run was held that morning at 10AM Moscow Time, with General of the Army Shoigu inspecting and with Colonel General Salyukov leading the contingents, just as they would have done in the actual parade.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Full order of the parade
Bold indicates first appearance, italic indicates multiple appearances, Bold and italic indicate returning appearance, all indicated unless otherwise noted.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Simultaneous Crimean parades
Parades occurred in 23 major Russian cities, including the newly incorporated federal city of Sevastopol, which was annexed by Russia (along with the rest of Crimea) in March 2014. Sevastopol also celebrated the 70th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany in May 1944. This year the Crimean Hero City of Kerch also held its first holiday parade, and also celebrated the 70th anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany on April 11, 1944. The Sevastopol parade saw the Black Sea Fleet parade for the first time independently of the Ukrainian Navy. Putin also attended a fleet review on the city where he delivered an address.


2014 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Simultaneous Crimean parades
Aside from these, 50 more cities and towns in Russia planned to hold joint civil/military parades in honor of the celebrations.


2014 Moscow school shooting
On February 3, 2014, 15-year-old high school student Sergey Gordeyev (Russian: Сергей Гордеев; also spelled Sergei Gordeev) opened fire at School No. 263 in Otradnoye District, Moscow, Russia, killing a teacher. Gordeyev then took 29 students hostage, killed one police officer, and injured another. Later on, he surrendered to the authorities. It is the first reported school shooting in Russia's modern history.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Shooting
At around 11:40 A.M., Gordeyev, concealing his weapons with a bag and fur coat, went to his school armed with a small-caliber rifle and shotgun that belonged to his father, a police colonel. He threatened the security guard and went to his geography classroom, where he shot his teacher, 29-year-old Andrey Kirillov (Russian: Андрей Кириллов), first in the stomach, then fatally shot him in the head upon seeing he was still alive. After killing Kirillov, he then took the class of 29 students hostage. Gordeyev then shot at responding police officers in the school, wounding Warrant Officer Sergei Bushuyev, 38, and Senior Sergeant Vladimir Krokhin, 29; Bushuyev later died at the scene, while Krokhin survived a gunshot wound to the shoulder.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Shooting
About an hour after the shooting first started, the Special Forces responded to the scene. Gordeyev initially called his mother before the Special Forces called in his father to negotiate with him. He initially spoke with Gordeyev on the phone for fifteen minutes before being brought into the school with a bulletproof vest to personally talk to him; thirty minutes afterward, Gordeyev released the hostages. At around 1:00 P.M., Gordeyev surrendered to authorities and was captured. A Russian report stated that a total of eleven shots were fired by Gordeyev during the shooting.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Victims
Two people were killed in the shooting, while a third was wounded. The victims were:


2014 Moscow school shooting, Perpetrator
15-year-old Sergey Gordeyev (born October 4, 1998) was identified as the perpetrator of the shooting. He attended School No. 263, had a very good reputation, which was due to an excellent school record. He was described as a "model student" who sets up "an example for the whole school".


2014 Moscow school shooting, Perpetrator
Two possible motives were given. According to the first, which was later rejected, Gordeyev opened fire from revenge against the geography teacher who was trying to interfere with his planned graduation with honors – and Kirillov was fixed upon as the teacher Gordeyev had conflicts with. Another version suggested that Gordeyev was suffering from an emotional disorder, yet he had had no previous apparent conflicts with either teachers or fellow pupils, although some described have him as "strange".


2014 Moscow school shooting, Perpetrator
Sergei Gordeev believed in the theory of solipsism, he considered all his life a dream, people were an illusion, at first he wanted to come to school, tell his classmates about his thoughts and shoot himself, in his words, he shot the geography teacher because "no one believed that he would shoot."


2014 Moscow school shooting, Perpetrator
A medical examination confirmed that Gordeyev has symptoms of mental disorder (paranoid schizophrenia). The court sentenced him to involuntary treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Later, the court also obliged the parents of Gordeyev to pay a certain sum of money in support of the son of the killed teacher.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Reaction
Politician Irina Yarovaya mentioned that the event might be linked to violent video games and recommended tighter gun control.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Reaction
Politician Aleksey Pushkov suggested exposure to American culture might be to blame.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Reaction
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin later stated that schools in Moscow have been set to be reviewed for security.


2014 Moscow school shooting, Reaction
At a meeting with theater workers, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that such tragedies might be prevented by placing a greater emphasis on culture in children's upbringing, such as the theatrical arts.


2014 Moselle Open
The 2014 Moselle Open was a men's tennis tournament held in Metz, France and played on indoor hard courts. It was the 12th edition of the Moselle Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2014 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Parc des Expositions de Metz Métropole from 15 September until 21 September 2014. Eighth-seeded David Goffin won the singles title.


2014 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:


2014 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2014 Moselle Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Moselle Open – Doubles
Johan Brunström and Raven Klaasen were the defending champions, but Klaasen chose not to participate. Brunström plays alongside Philipp Oswald, but they lost in the first round to Tomasz Bednarek and André Sá. Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski won the title, defeating Marin Draganja and Henri Kontinen in the final, 6–7(3–7), 6–3, [10–8].


2014 Moselle Open – Singles
Gilles Simon was the defending champion, but withdrew with a right wrist injury before the tournament began.


2014 Moselle Open – Singles
David Goffin won the title, defeating João Sousa in the final, 6–4, 6–3.


2014 Moselle Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2014 Moto2 World Championship
The 2014 FIM Moto2 World Championship was a part of the 66th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Pol Espargaró was the reigning series champion, but did not contest the season as he joined the series' premier class, MotoGP.


2014 Moto2 World Championship
Scoring a record tally of points for the intermediate class, with 346, Marc VDS Racing Team rider Esteve Rabat wound up as the series champion, finishing 57 points clear of his teammate Mika Kallio. Rabat also set records for pole positions with 11, and tied the record for podiums with 14 – including 7 wins – matching Marc Márquez in the 2012 campaign. Kallio, a three-time winner, sealed the runner-up position in the championship after a collision with his closest challenger for the position, Maverick Viñales, in the final round of the season in Valencia.


2014 Moto2 World Championship
Both riders retired from the race as a result of the incident, giving Kallio the position by 15 points. Viñales' performances – his best results being four victories – were easily good enough for him to finish as the highest placed rookie in the championship standings, finishing almost 200 points clear of the next best rookie, his Paginas Amarillas HP 40 teammate Luis Salom, who finished eighth in the championship.


2014 Moto2 World Championship
Fourth place in the championship was taken by Interwetten Sitag rider Thomas Lüthi, who won late season races in Japan and Valencia; the latter coming after Rabat was slow coming off the final corner of the race. He finished just ahead of compatriot Dominique Aegerter, who for the Technomag carXpert team, achieved his first Grand Prix victory during the 2014 season. Having scored his first pole position in qualifying, Aegerter took his maiden victory in his 129th start, fending off Kallio's advances in the closing stages.


2014 Moto2 World Championship
The only other race victor was Anthony West for the QMMF Racing Team, winning a wet race at Assen; it was his second race win at the track, having triumphed in similar conditions in 2003. Riding a Speed Up, it was the only time a Suter or Kalex did not win a race throughout the season. Kalex dominated the constructors' championship, amassing 430 points out of a maximum total of 450.


2014 Moto2 World Championship, Grands Prix
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 19-race provisional calendar on 2 October 2013. The calendar was updated on 13 December 2013 and again on 24 February 2014, resulting in an 18-race calendar.


2014 Moto2 World Championship, Grands Prix
The 2014 calendar originally saw the addition of two South American races, the series' first visit to the continent since 2004. A race in Argentina at the newly upgraded Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo is scheduled for 27 April and a race in Brazil at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Brasilia was scheduled for 28 September, but the latter was subsequently removed from the calendar. The round at Motorland Aragón was also moved back a week, filling the date originally scheduled for Brazil.


2014 Moto2 World Championship, Teams and riders
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 20 November 2013. An updated entry list was released on 14 January 2014. The final entry list was released on 28 February 2014. All Moto2 competitors raced with an identical CBR600RR inline-four engine developed by Honda. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.


2014 Moto2 World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings
Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.


2014 Moto3 World Championship
The 2014 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 66th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Maverick Viñales was the reigning series champion, but did not contest the season as he moved to the series' intermediate class, Moto2.


2014 Moto3 World Championship
The riders' championship was not settled until the final round of the season, and was won by Estrella Galicia 0,0 rider Álex Márquez, the brother of 2010 125cc champion Marc Márquez; as a result, the Márquez brothers became the first siblings to each win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing title. Márquez – a three-time race winner – prevailed after a third-place finish in Valencia, which was good enough to give him the title by two points over Jack Miller, who won the race.


2014 Moto3 World Championship
Miller, who had not finished on a Grand Prix podium prior to the 2014 season, achieved six victories and ten podium finishes, riding for the Ajo Motorsport team. Third place in the championship was also decided in Valencia, with Álex Rins, teammate to Márquez at the Estrella Galicia 0,0 team, able to take the position ahead of SaxoPrint–RTG's Efrén Vázquez. Both riders took two victories during the season, including the first two of Vázquez's Grand Prix career.


2014 Moto3 World Championship
The only other riders to take victories during the season were the riders that finished fifth and sixth in the final riders' championship standings. Riding for Valentino Rossi's Sky Racing Team by VR46, Romano Fenati took four victories during the season, but with only two further podium finishes, he was unable to mount a substantial championship challenge. Alexis Masbou, riding for Ongetta–Rivacold, was also a first-time Grand Prix winner during the 2014 season; he won at Brno, after prevailing in a 17-rider lead battle.


2014 Moto3 World Championship
The rookie of the year standings were comfortably won by Enea Bastianini of the Junior Team GO&FUN Moto3. Bastianini finished ninth overall having graduated from the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, taking three podium finishes during the campaign. In the constructors' championship, KTM and Honda finished tied on 384 points, but KTM won the title – a third consecutive title – on countback as the marque had won 10 races to Honda's 8.


2014 Moto3 World Championship, Grands Prix
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 19-race provisional calendar on 2 October 2013. The calendar was updated on 13 December 2013 and again on 24 February 2014, resulting in an 18-race calendar.


2014 Moto3 World Championship, Grands Prix
The 2014 calendar originally saw the addition of two South American races, the series' first visit to the continent since 2004. A race in Argentina at the newly upgraded Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo is scheduled for 27 April and a race in Brazil at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Brasilia was scheduled for 28 September, but the latter was subsequently removed from the calendar. The round at Motorland Aragón was also moved back a week, filling the date originally scheduled for Brazil.


2014 Moto3 World Championship, Teams and riders
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 20 November 2013. An updated entry list was released on 14 January 2014. The final entry list was released on 28 February 2014.


2014 Moto3 World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings
Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.


2014 Moto3 World Championship, Results and standings, Manufacturers' standings
Although KTM and Honda finished with identical points totals of 384, KTM was crowned manufacturers' champion on countback by virtue of their 10 race wins to Honda's 8.


2014 MotoGP World Championship
The 2014 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 66th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc Márquez started the season as the defending riders' champion in the MotoGP category, with Honda the defending manufacturers' champions.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
Winning a premier class record 13 races during the season, Márquez won a second successive title, finishing 67 points clear of his nearest rival Valentino Rossi. Márquez won each of the first 10 races to be held in 2014, before Repsol Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa was able to inflict his first defeat, at Brno. Rossi had taken eight podiums in the season, before he was able to win a race, when he won at Misano.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
He also won at Phillip Island, as he finished as the championship runner-up in a Grand Prix class for the first time since 2006, when he finished second to Nicky Hayden. Despite bookending his season with retirements, Rossi's Movistar Yamaha MotoGP teammate Jorge Lorenzo finished third in the championship. Finishing 32 points behind Rossi, Lorenzo took back-to-back victories in Aragon, and Japan, as part of a nine-race podium streak that was ended by his retirement in Valencia. The only other race winner was Pedrosa, with his Brno triumph being his sole victory in the 2014 campaign.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
The Espargaró brothers were each able to take one of the sub-classifications available to them. Pol Espargaró finished as the best place rookie in the final championship standings, finishing sixth overall; the next best rookie was Scott Redding in twelfth place. Aleix Espargaró was the best placed rider that was competing with an Open-specification motorcycle. He finished seventh overall in the championship, taking a pole position at Assen and a second-place finish in Aragon. Just like the rookie of the year standings, Redding was the next best rider.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Season summary
Márquez was a comfortable winner of the BMW M Award for the best qualifying rider, with 13 pole positions during the season. Repsol Honda were the winners of the teams' championship, as the results for Márquez and Pedrosa allowed them to finish 50 points clear of Movistar Yamaha MotoGP, while Honda won the constructors' championship for the 21st time – and their 63rd title in total – 55 points clear of Yamaha.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Calendar
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme released a 19-race provisional calendar on 2 October 2013. The calendar was updated on 13 December 2013 and again on 24 February 2014, resulting in a calendar of 18 races.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Teams and riders
Starting in 2014, the rules governing the eligibility of entries changed. MSMA prototypes were reclassified as the new "Factory" class, whilst the Claiming Rule Teams sub-category was restructured as the "Open" class. All bikes used the approved MotoGP Electronic Control Unit, with bikes in the "Open" class using both the MotoGP ECU and identical software, and those competing as "Factory" entries permitted to use their own custom software. The Factory option bike had their allocation of engines reduced from twelve to five, and those five had their design frozen. The amount of fuel allowed was reduced from twenty-four litres to twenty litres.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Teams and riders
A subsequent modification, only officialized in March, stated that a manufacturer who had not achieved a win in dry conditions in the previous year, or a new manufacturer entering the championship, could enter under the Factory option with all the concessions available to the Open class; these benefits were reduced in case of a determined number of podiums or wins.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Teams and riders
Ducati Team and Pramac Racing were due to enter their bikes in the Open class but revised regulations meant that they were finally entered under the Factory option with Open concessions.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Teams and riders
A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 20 November 2013. An updated entry list was released on 14 January 2014. Teams had time until 28 February to decide if a rider would be assigned to the "Factory" or "Open" class. The final entry list was released on the same day.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Results and standings, Constructors' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


2014 MotoGP World Championship, Results and standings, Teams' standings
The teams' standings were based on results obtained by regular and substitute riders; wild-card entries were ineligible.


2014 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas
The 2014 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas was the second round of the 2014 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin on April 13, 2014.


2014 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round two has concluded.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche
On 18 April 2014,  seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall. This was the same icefall where the 1970 Mount Everest disaster had taken place. Thirteen bodies were recovered within two days, while the remaining three were never recovered due to the great danger of performing such an expedition. Many Sherpas were angered by what they saw as the Nepalese government's meager offer of compensation to victims' families, and threatened a protest or strike. On 22 April, the Sherpas announced they would not work on Everest for the remainder of 2014 as a mark of respect for the victims.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Background, Guide employment on Mount Everest
A Sherpa who works as a porter specialised in high-altitude work including rope fixing on Mount Everest typically earns about US$125/day per climb. Most come from climbing families, are raised on stories of wealth from climbs, with relatively few other economic opportunities. Between 350 and 450 such people, mostly from the Sherpa ethnic group, work each year's climbing season. (They are all referred to as "Sherpas" regardless of specific ethnicity.) As such, they can earn up to $5,000 a year, compared with Nepal's average annual salary of $700.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Background, Guide employment on Mount Everest
In the years prior to the disaster, foreigners began bringing their own guides, causing tension with locals. Eight people, including one of the most experienced Sherpa guides, died on Mount Everest in 2013.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Background, Concerns over Khumbu Icefall route
The presence of numerous unstable blocks of ice (called seracs) in and above the Khumbu Icefall encourages climbers to try to pass through as quickly as possible, usually in the very early morning before temperatures rise and loosen the ice. In the spring of 2012 Russell Brice, of the guiding company Himex, called off guided ascents run by his company due to safety concerns. He was worried about the stability of a 300 metres (980 ft) wide ice cliff, or ice bulge, on Mount Everest's western shoulder that could endanger the route through the Khumbu Icefall, if it collapsed.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Background, Concerns over Khumbu Icefall route
"When I see around 50 people moving underneath the cliff at one time," he commented, "it scares me." However, Brice and Himex returned to the south side of Everest for the 2014 climbing season. Mountaineer Alan Arnette reported that this ice bulge had been a known hazard for years and had discharged ice into the Khumbu Icefall almost every season. He added that, "In 2012 it narrowly missed many climbers." According to writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer, the 2014 ice avalanche was triggered when a block of ice "the size of a Beverly Hills mansion" broke off from the bulge.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Background, Concerns over Khumbu Icefall route
Conditions change regularly with the glacier's shifting ice, so climbing guides must find and maintain a new route through the icefall each season.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Ice avalanche
At approximately 06:45 local time (01:00 UTC,18 April 2014), an ice avalanche occurred on the southern side of Mount Everest, at an elevation of approximately 5,800 metres (19,000 ft). Twenty-five men, mostly Sherpas, were buried in the avalanche. The group was fixing ropes and preparing the South Col route for fee-paying climbers during the upcoming climbing season. The accident zone, locally known as "the Golden Gate" or "Popcorn Field", lies within the Khumbu Icefall.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Ice avalanche
The ice avalanche came from a large serac breaking off on the slopes of Mount Everest's western shoulder. Despite most reporting, this was not an avalanche in the usual sense of the word as there was little snow involved and the large blocks of serac ice behave much more like  a rockfall. The serac was estimated to have been 34.5 meters (113 ft) thick and to have had a mass of 14.3 million kilograms (31.5 million pounds). Though there have been calls for construction of defensive structures, they are impossible on the scale necessary.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Victims
Sixteen people died in the disaster. Thirteen bodies were recovered as of 48 hours later, when search and rescue operations were called off due to "too much risk". Three victims are still buried in roughly 80 to 100 metres (260 to 330 ft) of snow and ice. Nine other guides were also injured, including three who required intensive-care hospitalisation.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Victims
Four fatalities were Sherpas from Nepal's Solukhumbu District. Five were working for Discovery Channel, preparing for an upcoming special in which Joby Ogwyn was planning to attempt a BASE jump from the mountain. No foreigners were killed. According to mountaineer Tim Rippel, the victims were moving slowly and carrying large "loads of equipment, tents, stoves, oxygen and so on up to stock camps" when the avalanche occurred. The Sherpas had started out in early morning but were delayed by poor climbing conditions. The second unit crew of disaster movie Everest (2015) were filming nearby, but suffered no injuries or fatalities; Sherpas involved with the film's production gave assistance after the avalanche. In total, the search and rescue team included nine Sherpas and three foreigners.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Victims
The 2014 disaster is the second-deadliest disaster in Everest's history, only superseded by avalanches that struck the southern side of the mountain the following year, on 25 April 2015, triggered by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
Rippel reported "everyone is shaken here at base camp". Some of the climbers immediately packed up their belongings and left.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
In addition to mandatory insurance policies paying US$10,000 to guides' families, the Nepalese government announced compensation of Nepali Rs. 40,000 ($400) each as immediate relief to the victims' next of kin. This government offering, which only covers funeral costs, angered Sherpas and was dismissed by the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA). The NMA announced they would stop work in seven days' time if compensation of US$10,000 were not paid to families of the dead, injured and missing. They further demanded a memorial to the dead, the doubling of insurance coverage to $20,000 and government payment of medical bills. According to unverified reports, 350 guides voted to suspend operations on Everest. Other reports said the guides agreed to unspecified "strong protests".


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
On 21 April, eight of the dead were ceremoniously driven through Kathmandu and then cremated in a Buddhist religious ceremony. On 22 April, the Sherpas announced they would not work on Everest for the rest of 2014 out of respect for the victims. Tulsi Gurung said: "We had a long meeting this afternoon and we decided to stop our climbing this year to honour our fallen brothers. All Sherpas are united in this." The fate of 334 climbing permits sold at $10,000 each is uncertain. By 24 April, almost all expeditions had decided to abandon their climbing plans; the 600 mountaineers who were at Base Camp before the avalanche was down to 40 or 50.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
On 23 April, the Nepalese government announced it would give an additional 500,000 Nepali Rs. (approx. US$5,100) to the families of the dead climbers. Although these funds started to be paid in December 2014, it was reported in January 2015 that the bereaved Sherpa families were further angered because the money could only be obtained if they  presented documentation in Kathmandu, which is impossible for many of those who live in the Khumbu region.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
Discovery cancelled Ogwyn's planned BASE jump shortly after the ice avalanche struck, and announced it would broadcast a documentary about the tragedy. Entitled Everest Avalanche Tragedy, the 90-minute programme was shown on 4 May. The company also said it would make a donation to the American Himalayan Foundation Sherpa Family Fund, a charity supporting the families of those who died in the disaster.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
Following the accident, the NMA president Ang Tsering Sherpa proposed installing avalanche-prevention barriers similar to those found above European ski resorts. He said: "We should ... adopt some precautionary measure – learning from [how] mountains [are managed] in developed countries where they adopt measures to avoid avalanches by putting some kind of wood or some concrete so that it helps make it safe." It is very doubtful however if any defensive structures are feasible for events of this size.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Reactions
The 2015 documentary Sherpa explores reactions to the avalanche after filmmakers were on location when it occurred.


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Effects and aftermath, Post-disaster ascents in 2014
The first post-avalanche ascent of Mount Everest via the South Col route was on 23 May 2014, by Chinese businesswoman Wang Jing, together with five sherpas. Her ascent sparked controversy, as she bypassed the Khumbu Icefall by helicopter, which took her to 6,400 m (21,000 ft); this decision was made because the 2014 ropes and ladders had been removed. She made her ascent without new rope lines, and beyond the usual 14:00 cut-off time, and made her descent in the dark. Tamding Sherpa, the leader of the team that Wang was planning to use before her original expedition was called off as a result of the disaster, stated that he considered her ascent to be "cheating".


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Effects and aftermath, Changes in 2015
As a result of the dangers of the normal route up the left side of the icefall, the Nepali authorities announced in February 2015 that a new route, up the centre of the icefall, would be followed instead. According to the director of the Nepali government’s Department of Tourism, Tulasi Prasad Gautam, "In response to the last year’s avalanche we are trying to make Everest climbing a little safer by avoiding the old route."


2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche, Effects and aftermath, Changes in 2015
In addition, the insurance for each Sherpa in 2015 was raised to $15,000 from $11,000.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption
A volcanic eruption of Mount Ontake (御嶽山, Ontake-san) took place on September 27, 2014, killing 63 people. Mount Ontake is a volcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu around 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Nagoya and around 200 km (120 mi) west of Tokyo. It was the first fatal volcanic eruption in Japan since the 1991 eruption at Mount Unzen, and the deadliest volcanic eruption in Japan since Torishima killed an estimated 150 people in 1902.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline
The volcanic eruption happened at 11:52 Japan Standard Time (UTC+9). There were no significant earthquakes that might have warned authorities in the lead up to the phreatic eruption—caused by ground water flashing to steam in a hydrothermal explosion. The mountain is a popular tourist attraction for hikers, being considered good for beginner climbers and relatively safe, and the weather was also good, so there were several hundred people on its slopes at the time. The police said that they were searching for people remaining on the mountain. By 17:00 the police reported that three people were missing and were believed to be under ash. Another person was rescued from under the volcanic ash, but remained unconscious. Six people were injured, one by flying rocks.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline
By 19:30, the number of people believed to remain buried in ash rose to six. Nine people had been reported to be injured, five of whom had fractured bones. Later, at least 40 people were reported to be injured, and another 32 were believed to be missing. The JSDF began carrying out helicopter searches for missing people. One woman was reported to have died from the eruption.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline
On September 28, the police reported that over 30 people had been found in "cardiac arrest" near the summit. Japanese emergency services often refer to people who show no vital signs, and are apparently dead, as being in cardiac arrest, as legally, only an authorised physician can pronounce a person dead. By September 29, a total of 36 bodies had been found, and 12 people had been pronounced dead; the search was suspended due to dangerous conditions, including hydrogen sulfide gas spewing from the mountain. On September 30, fears of escalating volcanic activity on Mount Ontake continued to hinder rescue efforts.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline
On October 1, 2014, eleven new bodies were discovered by rescuers on the slopes of Mount Ontake after searching in previously unexplored areas of the ash-covered peak, bringing the total body count from 36 to 47; a revision after an erroneous initial count of 48.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline
On October 4, 2014, four new bodies were discovered by rescuers on the slopes of Mount Ontake after searching in previously unexplored areas away from trekking roads. Those four were confirmed to have died.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline
Typhoon Phanfone prevented searching activities from October 5 till 6. On October 7, three more bodies were discovered, bringing the total of confirmed deaths to 54. As of October 11, the death toll was at 56. The victims of the Mount Ontake eruption were mourned on October 27, as authorities and residents marked a month since the volcano killed 57 people and left 6 others missing.


2014 Mount Ontake eruption, Timeline, Trial
On January 25, 2017, bereaved families of five victims filed a lawsuit against the country and Nagano prefecture, seeking damages of 150 million yen. They argued that the warning level should have been raised prior to the eruption. The government said that the Japan Meteorological Agency had not raised the warning level even though earthquake levels were slightly elevated, because the warning level was based on additional data and historical activity.


2014 Mountain Province bus accident
The 2014 Mountain Province Bus accident was a bus accident that occurred when a Florida Trans bus fell off a road in Sitio Paggang, Talubin, Bontoc, Mountain Province of the Philippines. The accident occurred on February 7, 2014. Fourteen people were killed and more than 32 people were injured. Comedian Tado and two more artists died in this accident.


2014 Mountain Province bus accident, Accident
The accident occurred in Barangay Talubin, Bontoc, Mountain Province at around 7:20 am   The bus was traveling on the Mountain Province when it fell 100 to 120 meters deep off the mountain.


2014 Mountain Province bus accident, Accident
As a result, 14 people were killed and 32 were left injured. Two foreigners, a Dutch and a Canadian national, were among the casualties. Visual artist Gerard Baja, musician David Sicam, and comedian Tado were also killed in the accident. Those who sustained injuries were brought to the Bontoc General Hospital. The driver was among those injured while the bus conductor was killed.


2014 Mountain Province bus accident, Investigation
Mountain Province Senior Superintendent police chief Oliver Emmodias said mechanical problems and a defect in the vehicle could have been the cause of the accident.


2014 Mountain Province bus accident, Aftermath, Sanctions
The Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LFTRB) imposed a 30-day preventive suspension to GV Florida Transport 186 of its franchised units on February 10, 2014.


2014 Mountain Province bus accident, Aftermath, Commemoration
On July 6, 2014, an artwork called "Every Bus is a Bus Full of Dreamers" was painted in front of the Sampaloc GV Florida Transport terminal.


2014 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2014 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 21–25. All seven of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Earl E. Wilson Stadium. This is San Jose State's first year in the league after joining from the Western Athletic Conference. San Diego State won the tournament, earning the Mountain West's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2014 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The conference's seven teams were seeded based on winning percentage during the round-robin regular season schedule. The bottom two seeds played a single-elimination game prior to the main six-team double-elimination bracket. The top two seeds received a bye to the second round, with the top seed playing the lowest seeded team that won its first round game, and the second seeded team playing the higher seeded first day winner. The losers of the first day's first-round games played an elimination game in the double-elimination format. The higher seeded loser of the second round games in the winner's bracket played an elimination game in the third round of the loser's bracket. The lower seeded loser of the second round games in the winner's bracket played an elimination game in the second round of the loser's bracket.


2014 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
San Diego State junior catcher Brad Haynal was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Haynal was the leading hitter in the tournament batting .636 (14 for 22) and was also the leader in runs scored with nine.


2014 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Championship Game
The tournament came down to a final game between San Diego State and UNLV with each team having already lost once. With the game tied at 3 in the top of the sixth inning, shortstop Evan Potter's sacrifice fly pushed across the go-ahead run giving the Aztecs a 4-3 lead which their bullpen held. T.J. Kendzora pitched 1 2/3 hitless and scoreless innings in relief to record the win. Aztecs' third baseman Ty France had three hits, an RBI, a run scored and a stolen base. Michael Cederoth recorded his 20th save of the season which is both a Mountain West and a San Diego State school record.


2014 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
The 2014 Sports Authority Mountain West Football Championship Game determined the 2014 football champion of the Mountain West Conference (MW). The game featured the Mountain Division champion Boise State Broncos hosting the West Division champion Fresno State Bulldogs. Boise State was ranked #22 in the AP Poll, USA Today Coaches' Poll, and College Football Playoff Rankings.


2014 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held on March 12–15, 2014 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. With San Jose State and Utah State added to the MWC, the MWC had an 11-team tournament for 2014. The top five seeds got a first round bye. For the second year in a row, the first round games were online, quarterfinals and semifinals games were on the CBS Sports Network and the championship game was televised on CBS. The tournament champion received the Mountain West's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


2014 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams were seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. The top five seeds received first round byes.


2014 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament will be held on March 10–15, 2014 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. With San Jose State and Utah State added to the MWC, the MWC will have an 11 team tournament for 2014. The top 5 seeds will get the first round bye. For the 2nd year in a row all games but the championship will be streamed online through the Mountain West Network. CBS Sports Network will air the championship. The tournament champion will receive the Mountain West's only bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


2014 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.


2014 Mountain West Conference football season
The 2014 Mountain West Conference football season was 16th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference (MW). In the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the MW had 12 football members: Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaiʻi, Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State, and Wyoming.


2014 Mountain West Conference football season
This was the first time in four years that the membership of the MW did not change. Initially, UNLV was ineligible for postseason play due to their failure to meet Academic Progress Rate (APR) guidelines. However, the NCAA later accepted an updated APR report from UNLV, showing that the school had met guidelines, and lifted the ban.


2014 Mountain West Conference football season, Championship game
The championship game will be played on December 6, 2014. It will feature the highest ranked teams from two division championships.


2014 Movistar Team season
The 2014 season for Movistar Team began in January at the Tour de San Luis. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2014 Mozambican general election
General elections were held in Mozambique on 15 October 2014. Filipe Nyusi, the candidate of the ruling FRELIMO, was elected as President, and FRELIMO retained its parliamentary majority.


2014 Mozambican general election, Electoral system
The President was elected using the two-round system. Incumbent President Armando Guebuza was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.


2014 Mozambican general election, Electoral system
The 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic were elected in 11 multi-member constituencies based on the country's provinces and two single-member constituencies representing Mozambican citizens in Africa and Europe. Seat allocation in the multi-member constituencies was based on proportional representation using the D'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 5%.


2014 Mozambican general election, Conduct
Electoral observers from the European Union stated there were positive aspects: new electoral legislation, a non-disputed voter register and a generally peaceful electoral campaign and an orderly election day, but issues with the tabulation process, and acts of violence and intolerance during the electoral campaign underlined the necessity for important improvements for the future electoral processes.


2014 Mozambican general election, Conduct
Electoral observers from the Mozambican Electoral Observatory group, concluded that their parallel vote count was broadly in line with the official results. However, the group still termed the elections "partly free and fair, and not very transparent", citing politicization and a lack of transparency of the electoral bodies, voters being turned away and other irregularities.


2014 Mozambican general election, Aftermath
The leader of RENAMO, Afonso Dhlakama claimed the results of the election were fraudulent and called for a national unity government, threatening to set up a parallel government if FRELIMO did not agree. However, he later abandoned the call. RENAMO also boycotted the swearing in of the provincial parliaments, and have threatened to boycott the swearing in of the Assembly of the Republic on 12 January 2015.


2014 Mr. Olympia
The 2014 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and part of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2014that was held on September 18–21, 2014, at the South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada and in the Orleans Arena at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. It was the 50th Mr. Olympia competition celebrated. Other events at the exhibition included the 212 Olympia Showdown, Ms. Olympia, Fitness Olympia, Figure Olympia, Bikini Olympia, Women's Physique Showdown, and Men's Physique Showdown contests.


2014 Ms. Olympia
The 2014 Ms. Olympia contest is an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and part of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2014was held on September 19, 2014, at the South Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada and in the Orleans Arena at The Orleans Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada. It was the 35th Ms. Olympia competition held. Other events at the exhibition include the 212 Olympia Showdown, Mr. Olympia, Fitness Olympia, Figure Olympia, Bikini Olympia, Women's Physique Showdown, and Men's Physique Showdown contests.


2014 Ms. Olympia, 2014 Ms. Olympia Qualified, Points Standings
1 In the event of a tie, the competitor with the best top five contest placings will be awarded the qualification. If both competitors have the same contest placings, than both will qualify for the Olympia.


2014 Mubi bombing
On the evening of 1 June 2014, an improvised explosive device was set off at a football field in Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria. At least 40 people were killed in the attack, according to eyewitnesses. Nineteen others were injured. The perpetrators of the attack were not clear, although media reports generally blamed Boko Haram.


2014 Mubi bombing, Background
Mubi is located a few miles from the Cameroon–Nigeria border. It is one of three towns in northeastern Nigeria that have been under a state of emergency for more than a year. Even so, Adamawa State's attacks by the Boko Haram insurgency include massacres in Mubi in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2018.


2014 Mubi bombing, Background
Boko Haram is an Islamist terrorist group opposed to what they perceive as the Westernisation of Nigeria, which they say is the root cause of criminal behaviour in the country. Thousands of people have been killed in attacks perpetrated by the group, and the federal government declared a state of emergency in May 2013 in Borno State in its fight against the insurgency. The resulting crackdown, however, has failed to stabilise the country.


2014 Mubi bombing, Background
Boko Haram's attacks intensified in 2014. In February, the group killed more than 100 Christian men in the villages of Baga, Borno and Izghe, Borno. Also in February, 59 boys were killed in the Federal Government College attack in Yobe State. In April 2014, the group abducted more than 200 school girls on the same day as a bombing attack in Abuja killed at least 88 people. By mid-April, Boko Haram had been blamed for nearly 4,000 deaths in 2014. At least 500 more people have been killed since then.


2014 Mubi bombing, Background
After the kidnapping, international attention on the situation greatly intensified. The United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other nations pledged monetary and/or military support to combat Boko Haram. However, attacks continued. On 20 May 2014, 118 people were killed in a pair of bombings in Jos. The following day, two dozen people were killed in a raid on a village.


2014 Mubi bombing, Attack
At approximately 6:30 pm local time (17:30 UTC), a bomb went off as spectators were leaving a football field in Kabang, Mubi. A number of shops were destroyed in the blast. One survivor described the scene: "After the commotion, I stood up covered with my own blood, but I realized that I was lucky to be injured as those who were not that lucky were shattered into pieces."


2014 Mubi bombing, Attack
According to one eyewitness, the blast appeared to come from within a crowd of people walking across the field on their way home, possibly suggesting the attack was the work of a suicide bomber. However, other eyewitnesses said a car had delivered the explosives. A similar attack was attempted at a football field in Jos the previous weekend, but the would-be-suicide bomber blew up before reaching the target.


2014 Mubi bombing, Attack
Initial reports said 14 people were killed in the attack and 12 injured. The official death toll was upped to 18 with 19 injuries the next day. However, the actual death toll was much higher according to locals. A nurse said the morgue at the local hospital was "overcrowded" with 40 or more bodies; a police officer backed her report. An eyewitness who lost two family members said about 45 people had died.


2014 Mubi bombing, Suspects
Media reports were quick to link the attack to Boko Haram. However, the area has also been subject to non-Boko Haram violence in recent years, so the perpetrators were not clear. On 2 June, a suspect was arrested by the military who had surrounded the city in hopes of catching the perpetrator. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the suspect's car at the scene of the bombing.


2014 Mubi bombing, Reaction
Politicians including Adamawa State governor Murtala Nyako and the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, described the attack as barbaric. Nyako said the government was saddened by the attack, but called on citizens to remain calm and assist in the investigation. The military surrounded the town in an effort to catch those responsible for the attack.


2014 Much Music Video Awards
The 2014 Much Music Video Awards (MMVAs) was held on June 15, 2014 outside the Much headquarters in downtown Toronto. Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner served as co-hosts for the show.


2014 Much Music Video Awards
The ceremony, which marked the 25th edition of the MMVAs, was simulcast live on Much and CTV.


2014 Multan stampede
On October 10, 2014, a stampede occurred in Multan, Pakistan at a public rally for political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). It caused the deaths of more than half a dozen people.


2014 Multan stampede, Cause
There are different statements about the reason for the accident and no-one has been properly identified as responsible.


2014 Multan stampede, Cause
As Imran Khan ended his speech, a large number of people rushed together towards the main gate to leave the venue. Khan accused the administration of deliberately sabotaging the rally. He said that a large number of people were deliberately sent on to the stage, electricity was disconnected and only two gates were allowed to open, which led to the incident. He said, "I condemn the role deputy commissioner Multan played. Out of six main gates, only two were opened after the rally.”


2014 Multan stampede, Cause
Eight people were killed and forty others suffered injuries in the stampede.


2014 Multan stampede, Response
After the tragedy, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, ordered the provincial government of Punjab to investigate. A three-member committee headed by Secretary Environment Iqbal Muhammad was formed to investigate the incident. However, PTI rejected the probe. PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi blamed DCO Multan Zahid Saleem Gondal for the stampede at the party’s rally in the city. He said that Gondal was hiding facts by giving wrong statements. Qureshi added that the administration put PTI chairperson Imran Khan’s life in danger. Khan, Chairman of the PTI, also denounced the forming of the committee, saying “I have no confidence in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif”.


2014 Multan stampede, Response
When the committee headed by Punjab Secretary Environment Iqbal Chauhan submitted its report, it held PTI management partly responsible for the incident, saying that organisers did not follow the rules of the agreement signed between party and the local administration. In contrast to PTI allegations, the report termed the tragedy an accident and dismissed accusations that the stampede was a conspiracy by the district administration.


2014 Multan stampede, Response
“All five gates, especially the gate where the stampede took place, were open at the time when people were exiting the venue and there was adequate arrangement of lighting at the time of the incident,” the report said. The inquiry committee stated that it was an accident and there was no element of subversion. The gates of the venue were open and there were proper lighting arrangements. The spray of water by Rescue-1122 proved very useful and a number of human lives were saved while the crowd was dispersed.


2014 Multan stampede, Response
On 18 October 2014, eight days after the incident, a petition seeking registration of a case against senior leaders of PTI was filed in a session court in Multan by Advocate Malik Khalil. The petition sought responsibility from the PTI Chairman Khan, Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Secretary General Jahangir Tarin, PTI Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry, the party's southern Punjab president Noor Khan Bhaba, district president Ejaz Janjua and Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed along with the event organisers for the tragedy. Advocate Malik Khalil asked the court to order registration of a case against the accused, saying that at least seven PTI supporters were killed in the stampede on October 10.


2014 Mumbai City FC season
The 2014 Season is Mumbai City FC's 1st season in existence in the Indian Super League.


2014 Mumbai City FC season, Background
In early 2014, it was announced that the All India Football Federation, the National Federation for Football in India, and IMG-Reliance would be accepting bids for ownership of eight of nine selected cities for the upcoming Indian Super League, an eight-team franchise league modeled along the lines of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament.


2014 Mumbai City FC season, Background
Mumbai were the visitors in the first ever ISL match on 12 October 2014, at Atlético de Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium. With both Nicolas Anelka and Freddie Ljungberg absent, the side lost 3–0.


2014 Mumbai City FC season, Players and staff, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2014 Mumbai City FC season, Players and staff, Squad
Note:Numbers are referenced from those posted by the official ISL app.


2014 Mumbai stampede
On 18 January 2014, a stampede broke out in Mumbai near the Malabar Hill residence of Dawoodi Bohra's spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who had died on 17 January 2014.


2014 Mumbai stampede, Events
The stampede started around 1:30 a.m. when his supporters had assembled to pay their last respect after the gates were opened and the crowds burst in. According to the BBC, "reports suggest people were crushed after the gates of the house where the body of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin were kept were closed." Eighteen people were confirmed dead and around fifty-six injured.


2014 Mumbai stampede, Events
According to one mourner, "There were a lot of people pouring in, and there was not much attention given by the government and the police, who should have been here and who should have managed things." Another mourner said, "In an attempt to get a glimpse of the Syedna, people started climbing on the main gates. Several fell and commotion ensued."


2014 Mumbai stampede, Events
A full list of the victims and their ages was later provided.


2014 Munster Senior Football Championship
The 2014 Munster Senior Football Championship was that year's installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of Munster GAA. It was one of the four provincial competitions of the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Kerry entered the competition as defending Munster champions.


2014 Munster Senior Football Championship
In September 2013, it was announced that the Munster Championship would become a seeded competition for 2014. This allowed footballing powerhouses Cork and Kerry to avoid each other until the final - where they duly met, Kerry emerging victorious and proceeding to an All-Ireland Final against Donegal.


2014 Munster Senior Football Championship
The decision to ease Cork and Kerry's passage through the Championship was overturned ahead of the 2015 competition after footballing minnows Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford (all four traditionally more successful at the ancient field sport of hurling) ganged together and gathered in a hotel on Tipperary soil to hammer out a format more suitable for their own needs.


2014 Munster Senior Football Championship
The draw for the 2014 competition was made on 3 October 2013.


2014 Munster Senior Football Championship, Teams
The Munster championship is contested by all six counties in the Irish province of Munster.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 123rd final of the Munster Senior Hurling Championship, one of the most prestigious provincial hurling championships. The match, contested by defending champions Limerick and Cork, took place on 13 July 2014 at the Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, and start at 4:00 p.m. The final also marked the last major GAA match at Páirc Uí Chaoimh before a €70 million redevelopment.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
The championship winners were awarded a place in the semi-finals of the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship on 17 August, while the loser went through to the quarter-finals on 27 July.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
Cork won their first Munster title since 2006 after a 2-24 to 0-24 win.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-Up
Tickets for the game were initially only available for purchase from clubs with no public sale. The capacity of Páirc Uí Chaoimh for the match was announced at 32,168. Covered stand tickets are priced at €35 with uncovered stand tickets at €30 and terrace tickets at €20. The match was shown live on RTÉ Two as part of The Sunday Game Live, presented by Michael Lyster with match commentary from Ger Canning and Michael Duignan and studio analysis from Cyril Farrell, Ger Loughnane and Liam Sheedy.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-Up
On 10 July, following the completion of works at the grounds, the capacity for the final was increased to 36,646 with extra tickets being made available. 1,500 terrace tickets for the Blackrock and City Ends were made available for purchase via tickets.ie and selected Centra and SuperValu stores on 10 July, however technical issues concerning tickets.ie, prevented supporters from purchasing tickets both in person and online.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-Up
Cork last won the Munster championship in 2006, the longest gap since the 10-year period between their 1956 and 1966 wins. Limerick's last title was in 2013 where they defeated Cork by 0-24 to 0-15. This is the 23rd meeting between Cork and Limerick in a Munster Final, with Cork having won 14 and Limerick winning 6 with 2 drawn finals in 1940 and 1944. Corks last Munster final win against Limerick was in 1992 when they won by 1-22 to 3-11 at Semple Stadium. Cork will be hoping to win their 52nd Munster title with Limerick going for their 20th title. Brian Gavin will referee his third Munster senior hurling final, he previously took charge of the 2010 replay and the 2011 final.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Team News
Limerick made one change to their team for the final with David Breen coming in to replace Seán Tobin at corner forward. Limerick will be managed by T. J. Ryan in his first year in charge, and captained by Donal O'Grady.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Team News
The Cork team is unchanged from the semi-final win against Clare. Cork will be managed by Jimmy Barry-Murphy in his third year in charge in his second spell as manager, and captained by Pa Cronin.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Summary
Limerick made the better start and were 0-8 to 0-4 ahead by the 21st minute. Cork came back to level at 0-8 apiece and then went 0-12 to 0-9 in front approaching half time. The sides were level at 0-12 to 0-12 at halftime. The sides were level at 0-18 apiece midway through the second-half when Séamus Harnedy ran in on goals to score the opening goal in the 55th minute. Paudie O’Sullivan got the second goal of the game with five minutes remaining when he caught a ball from Daniel Kearney before finishing low to the net. Cork eventually ran out winners by six points.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
Séamus Harnedy of Cork who scored the opening goal in the game was named as the man of the match on The Sunday Game, which was picked by Donal Óg Cusack and Eddie Brennan. Cork manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy felt that the victory was just reward for the efforts his Cork side have put in over the last few seasons saying "I’m very proud of the players and just thrilled for them and their families, they have made a massive effort over the last couple of years.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
We knew ourselves we had won nothing; we lost two finals last year and that was tough, It’s a great reward for the players and the efforts they’ve made." Limerick manager TJ Ryan felt two big turnovers in the second half went a long way to deciding the game saying "We are very disappointed, Munster finals are there for winning.


2014 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Reaction
We would love to have won it but it wasn’t to be," said Ryan with a shake of his head, I think Cork just edged it in the finish and got some good scores and the first goal was always going to be crucial. We had some half chances in the first half and they got the chance in the second half and took it".


2014 Murienua by-election
A by-election was held in the Cook Islands electorate of Murienua on 19 February 2014. The by-election was precipitated by the resignation of the winner of the 2013 Murienua by-election following allegations of election fraud.


2014 Murienua by-election
Both candidates in the 2013 by-election indicated that they would run again. A "stand-in" candidate for the Cook Islands Party, Tare Mareiti, subsequently withdrew. The election was won by the Democratic Party's James Beer.


2014 Murienua by-election, Aftermath
Following the by-election the Cook Islands Party filed an election petition alleging bribery, undue influence, the publication of false allegations to influence the vote, and unqualified voting.


2014 Murmuri earthquake
The 2014 Murmuri earthquake occurred on August 18 in the Zagros Mountains of Iran with a moment magnitude of 6.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The dip-slip shock injured 60–330 people and was followed by a number of high intensity aftershocks.


2014 Murmuri earthquake, Earthquake
The area had not seen a large seismic event since developments in Earth observation satellites allowed scientists to more precisely study earthquakes. Observations made using Interferometric synthetic aperture radar imply that different faults were ruptured by the mainshock and the largest aftershock, each leading to different surface deformations.


2014 Murmuri earthquake, Damage
Phone lines, water, and electricity were cut off. Eight villages were hit particularly hard, each losing around half of the homes in the area.


2014 Murmuri earthquake, Aftershocks
In the several days following the mainshock, four strong aftershocks occurred. Within the first twenty-four hours, events with magnitudes of 5.6 Mw and 5.4 Mw  occurred, each having a Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Just over six hours later, a 6.0 Mw  and intensity VIII (Severe) shock occurred. Several days later, a 5.6 Mw  (intensity VII) shock occurred.


2014 Murray State Racers football team
The 2014 Murray State Racers football team represented Murray State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fifth-year head coach Chris Hatcher and played their home games at Roy Stewart Stadium. They were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 3–9, 1–7 in OVC play to finish in a tie for eighth place.


2014 Murray State Racers football team
On December 11, head coach Chris Hatcher resigned to take the same position at Samford. He finished at Murray State with a five-year record of 27–30.


2014 Music City Bowl
The 2014 Music City Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 30, 2014 at LP Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The 17th edition of the Music City Bowl began at approximately 2:00 p.m. CST and was broadcast nationally by ESPN. It featured the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and the LSU Tigers from the SEC. It was one of the final 2014-15 bowl games of the 2014 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by the Franklin American Mortgage Company and is officially known as the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. Notre Dame defeated Louisiana State by a final score of 31–28.


2014 Music City Bowl, Teams
The game was the eleventh overall meeting between these two teams, with the series previously tied 5–5. The last time these two teams met was in 2006. It represented the third bowl game between these two teams; the previous bowls were the 1997 Independence Bowl and the 2007 Sugar Bowl.


2014 Muskoka District municipal elections
Elections were held in the Muskoka District Municipality of Ontario on October 27, 2014 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2014 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka District Council
Consists of a chair plus mayors of the municipalities as well as a number of district councillors.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open
The 2014 Madrid Open (also known as the Mutua Madrid Open for sponsorship reasons) was a professional tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Park Manzanares in Madrid, Spain from 3–11 May. It was the 13th edition of the event on the ATP World Tour and 6th on the WTA Tour. It was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2014 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2014 WTA Tour.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open
Ion Țiriac the former Romanian ATP player and now billionaire businessman is the current owner of the tournament.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open, Points and prize money, Prize money
The prize money for 2014 tournament across all rounds is €4,625,835 for the men's event, and €4,033,254 for the women.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry using a protected ranking into the main draw:


2014 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Doubles
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but lost to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić in the final, 4–6, 2–6.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles
Defending champion Rafael Nadal successfully defended his title, defeating Kei Nishikori in the final, 2–6, 6–4, 3–0 via retirement from Nishikori due to a back injury. Nadal became the first man to defend the singles title at the Madrid Open since the tournament's inception in 2002.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Šafářová were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Anabel Medina Garrigues and Yaroslava Shvedova. Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the title, defeating Garbiñe Muguruza and Carla Suárez Navarro in the final, 6–4, 6–3.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Serena Williams was the two-time defending champion, but withdrew before her quarterfinal match because of a left thigh injury.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Maria Sharapova, runner-up in 2013, claimed the title by beating Simona Halep in three sets in the final, 1–6, 6–2, 6–3.


2014 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2014 MyAFibStory.com 400
The 2014 MyAFibStory.com 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 14, 2014, at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. The race was 267 laps long, and it was the 27th race of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and the first of the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup. For the second race in a row, Brad Keselowski won the race to take his fifth win of the season and the 16th of his career. Jeff Gordon finished second ahead of rookie Kyle Larson. Joey Logano, and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top five.


2014 MyAFibStory.com 400, Previous week's race
Brad Keselowski led 383 (out of 400) laps on his way to his fourth win of the season at the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Keselowski stated in his post-race interview that he had "pinched myself once to make sure I wasn't dreaming. These are nights you don't forget as a driver and you live for", while stating that his car was "just flying" and that he "couldn't ask for a better way to enter the Chase than to win and take the first seed".


2014 MyAFibStory.com 400, Previous week's race
Clint Bowyer finished third, and failed to overturn the points disadvantage he had, to make the Chase. Bowyer expressed disappointedly that it was "definitely frustrating not making that Chase, but like I said, when you do make the Chase, you want it to be for a championship, not just ride around in it".


2014 MyAFibStory.com 400, Report, Background
Chicagoland Speedway is a 1.5 miles (2.414 km) tri-oval speedway in Joliet, Illinois, southwest of Chicago. The speedway opened in 2001 and currently hosts NASCAR racing including the opening event in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Until 2011, the speedway also hosted the Verizon IndyCar Series, recording numerous close finishes including the closest finish in IndyCar history. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation and located adjacent to Route 66 Raceway.


2014 MyAFibStory.com 400, Report, Entry list
The entry list for the MyAFibStory.com 400 was released on Monday, September 8, 2014 at 10:47 a.m. Eastern time. Forty-three drivers were entered for the race.