2017 Barcelona attacks, Attacks, Related events, Cambrils attack
At around 1:00 AM on 18 August in Cambrils, the five men drove an Audi A3 automobile into a crowd of pedestrians before it rolled over at the intersection of Passeig Miramar, Passeig Marítim and Rambla de Jaume I streets. The five individuals inside were wearing fake suicide vests, and attacked bystanders with knives. They stabbed a 63-year-old Spanish woman to death and injured six other people in the attack, including a Cuban tourist and a police officer.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Attacks, Related events, Cambrils attack
A police officer shot and killed four of the assailants, while a fifth died of his injuries hours later. Bystanders filmed one of the assailants being shot by police as he ran towards them. The men were linked to the Barcelona attack according to the police.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Attacks, Related events, Subirats
On 21 August, police shot and killed Younes Abouyaaqoub in an area of vineyards near the train tracks, thanks to the call of a neighbor of the town warning that there was a stranger in the vicinity of the town that could correspond to the terrorist from Las Ramblas.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Casualties
Aside from eight attackers, 16 people of nine nationalities were killed: 14 who were struck by the van in La Rambla, including one who died from injuries ten days after the attack, one stabbed in Barcelona by the La Rambla attacker when the attacker stole his car, and one who was struck by the car in Cambrils. Eleven of the victims were foreign nationals, ten of whom tourists. Over 130 people from over 34 nations were injured, many critically.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects
The imam Abdelbaki Es Satty died in the Alcanar gas explosion on 16 August, as did Youssef Aalla, brother of Said Aallaa. Five suspected members were shot dead by police on 18 August after the Cambrils attack: Moussa Oukabir, Omar Hychami, El Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, Said Aallaa and Mohamed Hychami. Younes Abouyaaqoub, the man believed to have been the van driver, was killed by police on 21 August. Four additional suspects were detained by police.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Younes Abouyaaqoub
Younes Abouyaaqoub, aged 22, was born on 1 January 1995 in M'rirt, Morocco, and had lived in Ripoll, Spain since he was four years old. He was the driver of the van that killed 14 people on La Rambla. He initially fled the scene of the attack on La Rambla through the Mercat de la Boqueria, then hijacked a car near the Zona Universitària station, stabbing the driver, Pau Pérez, to death. On 21 August, police caught up with him in Subirats, a village near Barcelona. He was wearing a fake suicide vest and shouted "Allahu Akbar" before police shot and killed him.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Younes Abouyaaqoub
According to police sources, his identity documents were found in the second van, which was intercepted by Catalan police in Vic. His mother told the press that her son had been brainwashed by the imam Abdelbaki Es Satty.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Houssaine Abouyaaqoub
Houssaine Abouyaaqoub, aged 19, was the brother of Younes Abouyaaqoub and one of the attackers killed in Cambrils in the early hours of 18 August. He was a deliveryman for a kebab restaurant in Ripoll. Both Abouyaaqoub brothers were first cousins of Mohamed and Omar Hychami.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Moussa Oukabir
Moussa Oukabir was 17 at the time of the attack. He was shot and killed by police after the Cambrils attack.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Moussa Oukabir
The Fiat Talento van used in the La Rambla attack had been rented using the ID of Oukabir's brother who told police that Moussa Oukabir had stolen his ID.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Moussa Oukabir
Moussa Oukabir had been living legally in Spain since 2005. In 2014 and 2015, he played futsal (a form of indoor football) for the local Ripoll youth team. In 2015, when asked on the social media website Kiwi what he would do in his first day as king of the world, he responded, "Kill the infidels and only spare Muslims who follow the religion." Moussa's brother has told the judge that Moussa had increased his prayer frequency, chided him for not spending time with Muslims only, and had told him that Muslims have to do "jihad, which implies war."


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Said Aallaa
Said Aallaa, 19, was born in Naour, Morocco. He had been living in Ribes de Freser, Spain, a village near Ripoll.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Said Aallaa
He was shot and killed by police after the Cambrils attack. La Vanguardia reported that Aallaa's social media contained photographs of firearms and that his religiosity was evidenced by his membership in Islamic study groups. Said had left a note in his room apologising for the harm he was about to cause.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Youssef Aallaa
Aalla's death in the explosion at Alcanar was later confirmed by police from DNA at the explosion site. Like all the other suspects, Youssef was born in Morocco. Youssef was a brother of Said Aallaa. Their father said Youssef attended the mosque.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Mohamed Hychami
Mohamed Hychami, aged 24 was born in Mrirt, Morocco. He was the cousin of Younes Abouyaaqoub, the driver of the van in the La Rambla attack. He was in the Audi used in the Cambrils attack and was shot and killed by police there. Hychami's mother told the media that Mohamed had said he was leaving on vacation and would return in a week.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Omar Hychami
Omar Hychami was 21, and was born in Mrirt, Morocco. He was the brother of fellow attacker Mohamed Hychami, and the cousin of the Rambla van driver Younes Abouyaaqoub. He worked for an agricultural construction sector.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Abdelbaki Es Satty
Abdelbaki Es Satty was a 44-year-old imam in Ripoll who was born in Morocco in 1973 and arrived in Spain in 2002. He was convicted of drug smuggling in 2014 and was to be deported from Spain, but Es Satty claimed deportation violated his human rights and he remained in Spain. A successful asylum application in November 2014 facilitated him moving freely in the 26 EU countries of the Schengen area. On 21 August, he was confirmed to have died in the accidental explosion in Alcanar on 16 August. As the imam thought to have been important in radicalising the other terrorists, he has been considered the "mastermind" of the planned attacks.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Abdelbaki Es Satty
Es Satty had been renting a room in the house for four months. Es Satty, who had been employed as imam at the Ripoll mosque since 2015, quit "abruptly" in June. He had also stayed in Belgium for approximately three months in 2016, where he had been searching for work, including in Vilvoorde. Investigators believe the imam might be aligned with the Salafist movement, but this might not be unusual, as one in three Islamic prayer centers in Catalonia are.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Abdelbaki Es Satty
He has been described as "unfailingly courteous and studiously discreet", betraying no radicalism in his appearance and interactions with those who did not know him, and training those in his terrorist cell to also lead double lives.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Suspects, Arrests
Police arrested four men in connection with the attacks. Three of the men were arrested in Ripoll: the owner of the car used in the Cambrils attack, the brother of Moussa Oukabir, and a third man. In Alcanar, 20-year-old Mohamed Houli Chemlal, who survived the Alcanar explosion was also arrested. Mohamed Houli Chemlal and Driss Oukabir have been charged with membership of a terror organisation and murder with Mohamed also been charged with possession of explosives. Both were found to be guilty by the Audiencia Nacional in 2021, although being acquitted of terrorist homicide charges. By 24 August 2017, two of the suspects, Salh El Karib and Mohamed Aalla, had been released on certain conditions, including that they hand over their passports.


2017 Barcelona attacks, ISIL inspiration
The ISIL-linked Amaq News Agency claimed the attack was carried out in response to the call for targeting states in the anti-ISIL coalition, of which Spain is a member, contributing about 400 soldiers training Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police forces.


2017 Barcelona attacks, ISIL inspiration
The Economist portrayed the motivation for this 2017 attack in Spain as rather 'less obvious', Spain being 'a minor player in the campaign against ISIS and other groups', though admittedly Spain contributed 150 soldiers to Operation Serval fighting Islamic militants in Mali, and in online propaganda linked to ISIL the Sagrada Família basilica was suggested as a possible target and ISIL was suggested to have boasted about recovering the Islamic lands of Al-Andalus.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Reactions, Domestic
Mossos d'Esquadra, the police force of Catalonia, launched Operation Cage to locate the perpetrators. All public events in Barcelona were cancelled, and both Carles Puigdemont, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, and Ada Colau, the Mayor of Barcelona, cancelled their holidays to return to the city and take part in crisis management. Likewise, Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy cancelled his holidays and travelled to Barcelona with the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, and Juan Ignacio Zoido, the Spanish Minister of the Interior. Spain declared three days of mourning.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Reactions, Domestic
The day after the attacks, a minute's silence led by Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, and King Felipe VI of Spain was observed at Plaça de Catalunya, which ended with applause and chants of "No tinc por" ("I am not afraid"). During the following days candles and flowers were left at the Joan Miró mosaic at La Rambla, in memory of the victims. The King and Queen also left a wreath in the name of the Crown.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Reactions, Domestic
On 26 August 2017, a large crowd marched down the Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona in a protest against the terror attacks. The march was called by the city council and Catalan government. Some people booed the King of Spain and displayed signs blaming the Head of State for the Spanish arms sales. Other demonstrators displayed Spanish and Catalan flags.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Reactions, Domestic
On 10 September 2017, the security and emergency services were awarded the Medal of Honour of the Catalan Parliament (Medalla d'Honor del Parlament de Catalunya). With this medal the Catalan Parliament recognises the dedication, effort, and courage of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona, Local Police of Cambrils, and the Emergency Services. The Major of the Catalan Police, Josep Lluís Trapero Álvarez, collected the award and made a speech mourning the victims.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Reactions, International
Many world leaders reacted to the events, condemning the attacks and expressing shock and solidarity with Spain, as well as offering support.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Reactions, International
News sources asked whether the attack would affect the vote in the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath
Several days after the attack, islamophobic incidents occurred in Sevilla, Logroño and Granada.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath
The Interior Ministry and the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía recommended the installation of bollards, but the Generalitat chose to increase the presence of police officers instead.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath, Threat to Spain and Gibraltar
On the night of 23 August 2017, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant uploaded a video praising the perpetrators of the attack and warning of more violence if the military actions against them in Syria and Iraq would not end, and threatening Gibraltar with an atomic bomb. The language used was Spanish. They also threatened to recreate al-Andalus as a caliphate and take revenge for the Muslims who died at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath, Threat to Spain and Gibraltar
The first author of the video was identified as Abu Lais Al Qurtubí (el Cordobés in Spanish) or Abu Laiz al Qurtubi, named Muhammad Yasin Ahram Pérez, Tomasa Pérez's oldest son, who converted to Islam after her marriage to the Moroccan Abdelah Ahram. He said "If you can’t make the hegira (journey) to the Islamic State, carry out jihad where you are; jihad doesn’t have borders. Allah willing, Al Andalus will become again what it was, part of the caliphate. Spanish Christians, don’t forget the Muslim blood spilt during the Spanish inquisition.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath, Threat to Spain and Gibraltar
We will take revenge for your massacre, the one you are carrying out now against Islamic State". The hooded author has been identified as Abu Salman Al-Andalus or Abu Salman al-Andalusí (el andaluz). Pérez stated: "We hope that Allah accepts the sacrifice of our brothers in Barcelona. Our war with you will continue until the world ends."


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath, Threat to Spain and Gibraltar
The threatening video to Gibraltar was published by Abu Albara Bin Malik and spread by Al Wafa. The threatening video was produced in Wilayat Jair, Deir Ezzor, Syria. According to Saharaui journalist Bachir Mohamed Lahsen, terrorists only publish threats for propagandistic use and they should not be taken seriously.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath, Threat to Spain and Gibraltar
As a response, Twitter users created an Internet meme based on the message by Pérez.


2017 Barcelona attacks, Aftermath, Verdict
In May 2021, the National Audience court sentenced three members of the jihadist organization which committed the attacks in 2017. Two of the accused, Mohamed Houli Chemlal and Driss Oukabir, were sentenced to an upwards of 53 and 46 years in prison respectively, the third, Said Ben Iazza, to 8 years in prison for the crime of collaboration. They were also banned from approaching the town of Alcanar, where they prepared the attacks.


2017 Barcelona train crash
On the 28th July 2017, a passenger train crashed into a buffer stop and derailed at Barcelona França station in Barcelona, Spain. Sixty people were injured, eleven of them seriously, including the driver.


2017 Barcelona train crash, Accident
The accident happened at about 07:15 CEST (05:15 UTC). A commuter train collided with the buffers at Barcelona França station and derailed. The train was operating a Sant Vicenç de Calders – Barcelona França service on the R2 line.


2017 Barcelona train crash, Accident
The train involved was an electric multiple unit of RENFE Class 465, number 210M. Witnesses stated that the train did not brake on entering the station. Fifty-six people were injured, five seriously. Eighteen people were taken to hospital. Victims were taken to four different hospitals in Barcelona.


2017 Barcelona train crash, Investigation
The Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF) opened an investigation into the accident. The Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes Ferroviarios (CIAF) is also responsible for investigating railway accidents in Spain. Its staff were seen on site following the accident. The train driver was found not to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The train event recorder was recovered from the train.


2017 Baseball European Cup Rosters
Eight teams, from 5 nations, are competing at the 2017 European Champions Cup.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2017 proceeded according to rules most recently amended in 2016. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with results announced on January 18, 2017. The BBWAA elected Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Iván Rodríguez to the Hall of Fame.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
The three voting panels that had replaced the more broadly defined Veterans Committee following a July 2010 rules change were replaced by a new set of four panels in July 2016. The newly created Today's Game Committee convened early in December 2016 to select from a ballot of retired players and non-playing personnel who made their greatest contributions to the sport after 1987. John Schuerholz and Bud Selig were elected by this committee.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on July 30, 2017.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
On July 26, 2014, the Hall announced changes to the rules for election for recently retired players, reducing the number of years a player will be eligible to be on the ballot from fifteen years to ten. One candidate presently on the BBWAA ballot (Lee Smith) in years 10-15 was grandfathered into this system and retained his previous 15 years of eligibility.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
In addition, BBWAA members who were otherwise eligible to cast ballots were required to complete a registration form and sign a code of conduct before receiving their ballots, and the Hall made public the names of all members who cast ballots (but not their individual votes) when it announced the election results.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
The code of conduct specifically states that the ballot is non-transferable, a direct reaction to Dan Le Batard turning his 2014 Hall of Fame ballot over to the sports website Deadspin and allowing the site's readers to make his Hall votes (an act that drew him a lifetime ban from future Hall voting). Violation of the code of conduct will result in a lifetime ban from BBWAA voting.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
A more recent rules change, announced on July 28, 2015, tightened the qualifications for the BBWAA electorate. Beginning with the 2016 election, eligible voters must not only have 10 years of continuous BBWAA membership, but also be currently active members, or have held active status within the 10 years prior to the election. A BBWAA member who has not been active for more than 10 years can regain voting status by covering MLB in the year preceding the election. As a result of the new rule, the vote total in 2016 decreased by 109 from the previous year, to 440.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Players who were eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Josh Bard, Danys Báez, Milton Bradley, Russell Branyan, Juan Castro, Ramón Castro, Alex Cora, Craig Counsell, Jack Cust, Doug Davis, Adam Everett, Ryan Franklin, Ross Gload, Wes Helms, Mark Hendrickson, Scott Linebrink, Felipe López, Julio Lugo, Jason Michaels, Trever Miller, Corey Patterson, Joel Piñeiro, Dennys Reyes, Aaron Rowand, Marcus Thames, Brett Tomko, Javier Vázquez, and Chris Woodward.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
442 ballots were cast, 2 more than in 2016. There were 442 total ballots cast, with 3595 individual votes for players, an average of 8.13 players named per ballot.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Iván Rodríguez were elected. Raines and Lee Smith were on the ballot for their final time; Smith dropped off the ballot, while Raines was the fifth player to be elected in his final ballot, after Red Ruffing, Joe Medwick, Ralph Kiner, and Jim Rice. Rodríguez was elected in his first year of eligibility.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Today's Game Era Committee
On July 23, 2016, the Hall of Fame announced changes to the Era Committee system. The system's timeframes were restructured to place a greater emphasis on the modern game, and to reduce the frequency at which individuals from the pre-1970 game (including Negro league baseball figures) will have their careers reviewed. Considering candidates whose greatest contributions occurred in 1988 and later, the Today's Game Era Committee met in 2016 as part of the elections for the next calendar year.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Today's Game Era Committee
On October 3, 2016, the Hall announced the 10 candidates to be considered when the Today's Game Era Committee met at the 2016 winter meetings in National Harbor, Maryland on December 4; the voting results were announced immediately after the committee met. The cutoff for election and induction remained the standard 75%, or 12 of 16 votes.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Today's Game Era Committee
All candidates except for Steinbrenner were alive when the ballot and the voting results were announced.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
The J. G. Taylor Spink Award has been presented by the BBWAA at the annual summer induction ceremonies since 1962. Through 2010, it was awarded during the main induction ceremony, but is now given the previous day at the Hall of Fame Awards Presentation. It recognizes a sportswriter "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing". The recipients are not members of the Hall of Fame but are featured in a permanent exhibit at the National Baseball Museum.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
The three finalists for the 2017 award were announced during the 2016 All-Star break.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
On December 6, during the 2016 winter meetings, Smith was named as the 2017 recipient. She received 272 of a possible 449 votes (with three ballots left blank). At the time of announcement, Smith was ESPN's news editor for remote production, with chief responsibility for incorporating news and analysis in the network's MLB-related broadcasts, as well as SportsCenter. She became the first African-American woman, and the first woman of any ethnicity, to regularly cover MLB for a newspaper when she began covering the New York Yankees for The Hartford Courant in 1983. Smith went from there to The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer before joining ESPN.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
Various changes in July 2016 were also made to the annual Ford C. Frick Award elections, presented annually to a preeminent baseball broadcaster since 1978. According to the Hall, the new criteria for selection are "Commitment to excellence, quality of broadcasting abilities, reverence within the game, popularity with fans, and recognition by peers."


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
Additionally, a ballot of eight candidates will now be set, down from 10 in years past. The three ballot slots previously determined by fan voting on Facebook will now be filled by a committee of historians.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
A new election cycle has been established, rotating annually between Current Major League Markets (team-specific announcers) with the 2017 Frick Award; National Voices (broadcasters whose contributions were realized on a national level) with the 2018 Frick Award; and Broadcasting Beginnings (early team voices and pioneers of baseball broadcasting) with the 2019 Frick Award. This cycle will repeat every three years.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
The Hall announced the ballot for the 2017 award on November 7, 2016, with voting to take place at the 2016 winter meetings on December 7. On December 7, it was announced that Bill King was the winner of the award.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Ford C. Frick Award
At the time the ballot was announced, all candidates were living except King and Martin.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award
Another Hall of Fame honor, the Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award, was also presented at the 2017 Awards Presentation. The award was created in 2008 in honor of Buck O'Neil, a Negro leagues star who went on to become one of baseball's leading ambassadors until his death in 2006. The first award was presented posthumously to O'Neil at the 2008 induction ceremony, and prior to 2017 had been presented two additional times. According to the Hall,


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award
The Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Hall of Fame's Board of Directors not more than once every three years to honor an individual whose extraordinary efforts enhanced baseball's positive impact on society, broadened the game's appeal, and whose character, integrity and dignity are comparable to the qualities exhibited by O'Neil.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award
As with the media awards, recipients are not members of the Hall of Fame but are permanently recognized by the Hall. In this case, the recipients are listed alongside a life-size statue of O'Neil that stands at the entrance to the museum. Written nominations for the award are accepted by mail at any time; the nomination must specifically state how the nominee meets the traits exemplified by O'Neil.


2017 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award
On May 25, 2017, the Hall announced that Rachel Robinson, widow of Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, would be the 2017 recipient. Before Jackie's passing in 1972, the couple established the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation, which builds and manages affordable housing. The following year, she established the Jackie Robinson Foundation to provide college scholarships and leadership training. In announcing the award, Hall of Fame chair Jane Forbes Clark said, "Rachel Robinson has worked tirelessly to raise the level of equality not only in baseball, but throughout society."


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four
The 2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four was the inaugural concluding Basketball Champions League Final Four tournament of the 2016–17 Basketball Champions League season, which also marked the first season of Basketball Champions League (BCL). The Final Four was played at the Santiago Martín in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain, on April 2017.


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four, Venue
On 31 March 2017, FIBA announced that the Final Four would be held in the Santiago Martín in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. The arena, nicknamed La Hamburguesa (The Hamburger), can hold 5,100 people for basketball games, and it offers 2,000 square meters of floor space. The facilities remain open all year long, without interruption. The arena was opened in 1999. Pabellón Insular Santiago Martín is the property of the Cabildo de Tenerife (the Island Council of Tenerife), and the Ayuntamiento de La Laguna (the La Laguna City Council).


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four, Draw
The draw for the pairings for the Final Four was held on April 7, 2017 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four, Road to the Final Four
Note: In the table, the score of the Final Four team is given first (H = home; A = away).


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four, Final
Iberostar Tenerife was enjoying its most successful season in the Liga ACB in club history as the club was in the first place of the regular season. Banvit were having a season in which the team won its first trophy by winning the Turkish Cup.


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four, Final
Playing at its home court, Tenerife won the game 63–59 behind Final Four MVP Marius Grigonis, who scored 18 points on 6 out of 10 three point shooting. Davin White added 14 points and 5 assists, while also hitting the most important three pointer of the game in the final minute. The league's MVP, Jordan Theodore, recorded 17 points and 9 assists for Banvit.


2017 Basketball Champions League Final Four, Final
By winning the Champions League trophy, Tenerife was awarded with the prize money of €500,000.


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race
The 2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on August 19, 2017 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. Contested over 500 laps on the .533-mile (0.858 km) short track, it was the 24th race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Report, Background
The Bristol Motor Speedway, formerly known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway, is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating. It has also been named one of the loudest NASCAR tracks.


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Practice, First practice
Denny Hamlin was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 14.848 seconds and a speed of 129.230 mph (207.976 km/h).


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Practice, Final practice
Ryan Blaney was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 14.926 seconds and a speed of 128.554 mph (206.888 km/h).


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Qualifying
Erik Jones scored the pole for the race with a time of 14.981 and a speed of 128.082 mph (206.128 km/h).


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Media, Television
NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, 2008 race winner Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast reported from pit lane during the race.


2017 Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Media, Radio
The Performance Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2017 Batangas earthquakes
The 2017 Batangas earthquakes were an earthquake swarm that occurred from early April to mid-August 2017, affecting the province of Batangas in the Philippines and other nearby areas.


2017 Batangas earthquakes
The first major earthquake occurred on April 4 at 8:58 pm Philippine Standard Time, with a surface wave magnitude of 5.5 off the coast of Batangas. According to the PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale, the earthquake had an intensity of VI (Very Strong).


2017 Batangas earthquakes
On April 8, stronger earthquakes occurred in the province. The PHIVOLCS recorded the strongest earthquake later that afternoon that had a surface wave magnitude of 6.0. Another earthquake struck on August 11, with a surface wave magnitude of 6.3.


2017 Batangas earthquakes
Three years later, Taal Volcano, about 25 kilometers from the epicenter, erupted after 43 years of inactivity.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Earthquakes, April 4 earthquake
The quake was recorded by PHIVOLCS on April 4, 2017 at 8:58 PM (UTC+8). Based on that record, the epicenter of the 5.5 earthquake was located 7 kilometers northwest of Tingloy, Batangas. The earthquake was of tectonic origin. Metro Manila and nearby provinces felt shaking at Intensity 3 while Obando, Bulacan felt Intensity 4, and Batangas City experienced Intensity 6 shaking. The earthquake is suspected to be the caused by the movement of the Lubang Fault. At 1:00 pm on April 7, PHIVOLCS stated that they have recorded 934 aftershocks; 118 of which were plotted and while 14 were reportedly felt.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Earthquakes, April 4 earthquake
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center announced no tsunami warning following the earthquake.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Earthquakes, April 8 earthquakes
Two earthquakes occurred near the towns of Mabini and Tanauan on April 8. PHIVOLCS recorded the first earthquake which occurred near Mabini at 3:07 pm as having a surface wave magnitude of 5.6 while the second earthquake which happened in Talaga Proper, Mabini, Batangas, at 3:09 pm was recorded as having a surface wave magnitude of 6.0. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the first as a magnitude 5.7 earthquake while the second as a moment magnitude of 5.9 earthquake.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Earthquakes, August 11 earthquake
PHIVOLCS recorded the earthquake which occurred at 1:28 pm as having a surface wave magnitude of 6.3. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the earthquake as a moment magnitude of 6.2 earthquake.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Shocks
Earthquakes with at least magnitude 5 as recorded by PHIVOLCS:


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact
Damages on some buildings, resorts and houses have been reported. The Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours or Taal Basilica, which is considered to be the largest Roman Catholic Church in Asia and located in Taal, Batangas, sustained damage during the April 4 earthquake. The April 8 earthquakes caused concrete blocks to fall from the church facade. The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Church in Batangas City also sustained damage on its walls during the April 8 quake.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact
The Batangas Provincial capitol also sustained damaged from the April 4 earthquake. The initial estimated cost of damage to the building was ₱18 million. On April 5, the Batangas provincial government declared a state of calamity.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact
Six people were injured by the 8 April quake. Around 14,000 people were temporarily relocated in evacuation centers.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact
During his installation on April 21, 2017, Lipa Archbishop Gilbert Garcera ordered Father Aurelio Oscar Dimaapi to temporarily close the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in order to prevent injuries.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact
In the aftermath of the August 11 tremor, many students were disturbed since the tremor struck during class hours. Several schools suspended classes after the earthquake. So far, no damage has been reported.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact, Power
The earthquake also damaged several power plants supplying the Luzon Grid, like one generator unit of the Ilijan Power Plant, one unit of Avion Power Plant, all units of Santa Rita Combined Cycle Power Plant, and one unit of San Lorenzo Combined Cycle Power Plant, resulting to a loss of 2,584 MW. The switchyard of San Lorenzo Power Plant was damaged and a transmission tower was toppled also by the earthquakes.


2017 Batangas earthquakes, Impact, Power
As a result, the power supply reserve for Luzon decreased, leading the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to place the Luzon Grid on "yellow" alert on April 10 and 11, and the Department of Energy ordered immediate repair of power plants damaged. A policy to protect the grid from earthquake damage is being drafted by the Department of Energy after the quakes.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election
A by-election was held in the federal riding of Battlefords—Lloydminster in Saskatchewan on December 11, 2017 following the resignation of Conservative MP Gerry Ritz


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election
The seat was held for the Conservatives, with Rosemarie Falk winning the seat on an increased majority.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election
The by election was held on the same day as 3 others across Canada; Bonavista—Burin—Trinity in Newfoundland and Labrador, Scarborough—Agincourt in Ontario and South Surrey—White Rock in British Columbia.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Background, Constituency
Battlefords—Lloydminster is a large rural constituency in Central-Western Saskatchewan. It includes the communities of North Battleford, Battleford and Unity; as well as the Saskatchewan portion of Lloydminster.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Background, Representation
Battlefords—Lloydminster is considered a safe seat for the Tories. Ritz had been Battlefords—Lloydminster's only Member of Parliament, holding the riding since its creation for the 1997 election, first as a Reform Party of Canada MP, then on behalf of the Canadian Alliance and since 2003 as a Conservative. He served as Agriculture Minister in Stephen Harper's cabinet from 2007 to 2015.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Campaign
On August 30, 2017, it was reported that Battlefords—Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz had asked not to be included in the reshuffled Conservative shadow cabinet. Ritz confirmed the next day that he would resign from parliament. The seat was vacated on October 2, 2017.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Campaign
Former parliamentary staffer Rosemarie Falk defeated Langham Mayor John Hildebrand, small business owner Aron Klassen, Kindersley CAO Bernie Morton, and farmer Richard Nelson to win the Conservative nomination. Meadow Lake MLA and former Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River MP Jeremy Harrison was rumoured to be a candidate for the Conservative nomination, but did not make his intentions known before the cut-off date to join the race.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Campaign
Rodeo cowboy and rancher Ken Finlayson's bid for the Conservative nomination was rejected by the party over concern that he was not a "team player". Finlayson ran as an independent.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Campaign
Professional MMA fighter and athlete Matt Fedler was named the NDP candidate.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Campaign
Contractor and former RM of Mervin councillor Larry Ingram was acclaimed as the Liberal Party candidate. Ingram previously ran for the party in Battlefords—Lloydminster in 2015.


2017 Battlefords—Lloydminster federal by-election, Campaign
The Speaker's warrant regarding the vacancy was received on October 3, 2017; under the Parliament of Canada Act the writ for a by-election had to be dropped no later than April 1, 2018, 180 days after the Chief Electoral Officer was officially notified of the vacancy via a warrant issued by the Speaker.


2017 Batumi hotel fire
A fire in the Leogrand Hotel & Casino in Georgia's Black Sea city of Batumi occurred on the night of 24 to 25 November 2017. It left 11 people dead. After the incident, the hotel rebranded itself as Welmond.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Incident
The fire in the 22-storey five-star hotel broke out around 20:00 local time, with many strongly suspecting the starting location at the spa center. Thirteen rescue and firefighting vehicles and approximately 100 firefighters were deployed and more than 100 people were evacuated. The hotel was due to host the Miss Georgia beauty pageant. None of the 20 contestants were injured. The owner and executive producer of the pageant told reporters that the contestants were in the middle of rehearsal when they were told to evacuate to a terrace.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Victims
Eleven people, ten Georgian nationals and one Iranian national, died, all from inhaling fumes. Eight of the victims were found trapped in an elevator, one in a swimming pool, and two were discovered in the hotel gym. Twenty-one people were hospitalized of which were a firefighter, four Turkish nationals and one Israeli national.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Investigation
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili vowed to punish and identify all those that were responsible for the fire, with Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia backing his calls for an investigation into the breach of fire-safety norms.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Investigation
Police said an investigation into possible breaches of fire safety regulations was launched. In 2018 the Georgian Prosecutor's Office requested the detention of a Turkish citizen who was the technical manager of the hotel, and a Georgian citizen who was a staff manager of the technical storage team. Investigators determined that easily inflammable materials which had been placed in the technical storage room helped intensify the fire and caused strong smoke. The hotel was also not equipped with automatic fire and smoke alarm systems.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Investigation
The two detained men, the Turkish manager and the Georgian storage staff member, were sentenced by the Batumi City Court to five years and six months and two years in prison, respectively.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Aftermath
The Government of Georgia declared a national day of mourning for November 27 for all of the victims of the fire. The Catholicos Patriach of All Georgia Ilia II expressed his sympathy for the tragedy and offered his condolences to the victims and their families from the Georgian Church at a service he delivered at the hotel.


2017 Batumi hotel fire, Aftermath
Shortly after the fire, a new law was prepared by the Emergency Management Service for parliament that increased fines imposed on fire safety rules by ten times. Also noted for the creation of the bill was multiple previous shopping center fires in Tbilisi.


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup
The 2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on carpet courts. It was the 21st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Eckental, Germany between 30 October and 5 November 2017.


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup – Doubles
Kevin Krawietz and Albano Olivetti were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Aliaksandr Bury and Andreas Siljeström.


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup – Doubles
Sander Arends and Roman Jebavý won the title after defeating Ken and Neal Skupski 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup – Singles
Steve Darcis was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2017 Bauer Watertechnology Cup – Singles
Maximilian Marterer won the title after defeating Jerzy Janowicz 7–6(10–8), 3–6, 6–3 in the final.


2017 Bayamon Cup
The 2017 Bayamon Cup is the seventh edition of the Bayamon City Cup, a cup tournament for clubs in Puerto Rico organized by Bayamón FC.


2017 Bayamon Cup, Teams
The tournament was open to all league clubs from Puerto Rico, most clubs used this competition as preseason for the start of 2017 season.


2017 Bayamon Cup, First round
In the first round, the 10 teams were divided into 2 groups of five teams. Each group is played on a round-robin basis, hosted at the Bayamon Soccer Complex. The top two teams from each group will progress to the semifinal round. The two winners will face each other in the final on March 11.


2017 Bayamon Cup, First round, Matches
Note: Some games were played out of order due to conflicts with the scheduling.


2017 Bayamon Cup, Final round
The format of the final round have not been announced.


2017 Bayamon Cup, Final round
Host venue: Bayamon Soccer Complex, Bayamon, Puerto Rico (all times UTC−4)


2017 Baylor Bears football team
The 2017 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bears played their home games at the McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Matt Rhule. They finished the season 1–11 (1–8 in-conference) to finish in ninth place in the Big 12.


2017 Baylor Bears football team, Schedule
Baylor announced its 2017 football schedule on December 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home, 5 away and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Bears hosted Big 12 foes Iowa State, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia, and will travel to Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, and TCU. Baylor played Texas Tech for the seventh season in a row in Arlington, Texas.


2017 Baylor Bears football team, Schedule
The Bears hosted two of the three non-conference opponents, Liberty from the Big South Conference and UTSA from Conference USA and travel to Duke from the Atlantic Coast Conference.


2017 BeNe Ladies Tour
The 2017 BeNe Ladies Tour was the fourth edition of the BeNe Ladies Tour, a women's cycling stage race in the Netherlands. It is rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
The 2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, also known as the Huawei Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup Dubai 2017 for sponsorship reasons, was the seventh edition of the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, an annual international beach soccer tournament contested by men's national teams, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
After the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, the Intercontinental Cup is the biggest tournament in the current international beach soccer calendar. Similar to the FIFA Confederations Cup, eight nations took part, with one team representing each of the six continental football confederations (except for the OFC) as well as the current World Cup champions, Brazil, and the hosts, the United Arab Emirates.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
The tournament started with a group stage, played in a round robin format. The winners and runners-up from each group advanced to the knockout stage, in which the teams then competed in single-elimination matches, beginning with the semi-finals and ending with the final. A third-place deciding match was also contested by the losing semi-finalists. The third and fourth placed nations from each group played in a series of consolation matches to decide fifth through eighth place.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
This tournament was the last in a deal signed between Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and the Dubai Sports Council (DSC) in 2012 in which it was agreed the two parties would organise the tournament until 2017. This year's event occurred between October 31 and November 4.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup
Brazil were the defending champions and successfully retained their title by beating Portugal in the final to claim their third Intercontinental Cup crown.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Participating teams
Eight teams took part including the hosts, current World Cup winners and one of the best performing nations from each of the six regional championships hosted by the confederations of FIFA. However, the OFC did not enter a team this year, so UEFA entered two teams.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Participating teams
As incumbent continental champions, Senegal were originally invited to play as the African representatives but were unable to compete due to financial issues.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Participating teams
Overall, Europe, Asia and South America were represented by two nations, Africa and North America one nation and Oceania, none.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Venue
This edition of the Intercontinental Cup took place in a new venue, in Dubai's Business Bay on the banks of the Dubai Water Canal, having taken place on Jumeirah Beach, Dubai Festival City and the Dubai International Marine Club in previous years. The new stadium had a capacity of 3,000.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Venue
Speaking at the draw event, BSWW Vice-president thanked the Dubai International Marine Club for hosting the previous events but explained that due to "external reasons" the competition would be hosted in a new part of the city in 2017. He added the new venue would be easier to access by prospective spectators and that tickets would remain free for fans as in previous years.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Draw
The draw to split the eight teams into two groups of four was conducted at 11:00 GST on October 3 at the headquarters of the DSC in the Dubai Design District. Teams from the same confederation could not be drawn into the same group. The draw was conducted by Aml Wael and Nora Al Mazrouie, members of the UAE's women's national association football team.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Draw
For the purposes of the draw, the nations were divided into two sets, Pot 1 and Pot 2, shown in the table below. The  allocation of teams into each Pot was based on previous performances in the championship. The first pot contained the three former champions of the Intercontinental Cup and, additionally,  the hosts. The second pot contained the other four remaining participants who have not won the tournament before. Two teams from each pot were drawn into Group A and two teams from each pot were draw into Group B, with the hosts, the United Arab Emirates, automatically allocated to position A1.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Draw
Prior to the draw, the eight teams were described as the strongest contingent the championship had ever seen.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Group stage
Matches are listed as local time in Dubai, GST (UTC+4)


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Consolation matches
The teams finishing in third and fourth place were knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in consolation matches to determine 5th through 8th place in the final standings.


2017 Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup, Knockout stage
The group winners and runners-up progressed to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships
The 2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships (also known as the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships presented by A1 due to sponsorship reasons) was the eleventh edition of the tournament and the world championship for the sport of beach volleyball for both men and women. The tournament was held from 28 July to 6 August 2017 in Vienna, Austria. The tournament had a prize money of USD $500,000 per gender.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Men's tournament
The men's tournament was held from 28 July to 6 August 2017.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Men's tournament
Evandro Oliveira and André Stein won the title, defeating hosts Clemens Doppler and Alexander Horst in the final, 23–21, 22–20. Stein became the youngest player to win a gold medal at the World Championships at the age of 22.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Men's tournament, Preliminary round, 3rd place ranked teams
The four best third-placed teams will advance directly to the round of 32. The other eight third-placed teams will play in the Lucky Losers Playoffs for the additional four spots in the Round of 32.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Women's tournament
The women's tournament was held from 28 July to 5 August 2017.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Women's tournament
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst won the title, defeating April Ross and Lauren Fendrick in the final, 19–21, 21–13, 15–9. The German pair became the first women's team from Europe to win a gold medal at the World Championships.


2017 Beach Volleyball World Championships – Women's tournament, Preliminary round, 3rd place ranked teams
The four best third-placed teams will advance directly to the round of 32. The other eight third-placed teams will play in the Lucky Losers Playoffs for the additional four spots in the Round of 32.


2017 Beckton acid attack
On 21 June 2017 two occupants of a car were attacked with acid in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham. The perpetrator was John Tomlin and the victims were later named as Jameel Muhktar and his cousin and aspiring model Resham Khan. Their injuries were described as "life-changing". Police investigated the incident as a hate crime, and the victims believe the incident represented rising Islamophobia in the United Kingdom. However, the judge said there was no evidence of a racial motivation. Tomlin was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment on 18 April 2018.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Background
The Beckton attack was part of a series of acid attacks targeting British Asians in London. However, not all acid attacks were similarly classified as hate crimes. The London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets are among the areas of London where acid attacks are most common.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Attack
At 9:13 a.m. BST on Wednesday, 21 June 2017, Jameel Muhktar and Resham Khan were sitting in a stationary car stopped at traffic lights on Tollgate Road, Beckton. A white male approached and threw a corrosive liquid onto them. Both suffered severe burns with their injuries described by the Metropolitan Police as "life-changing".


2017 Beckton acid attack, Attack
Khan needed skin grafts to her face and body whilst Muhktar suffered wounds to his stomach, face, neck, ears, arms and back requiring extensive surgery. Muhktar described his clothes and shoes melting following the attack.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Investigation
While investigators originally ruled out a religious or racial motive for the crime, the Metropolitan Police declared that new evidence which had been uncovered on 30 June led them to ultimately investigate the assault as a hate crime. The judge said that there was no evidence that it was a hate crime.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Suspect
The Metropolitan Police later stated it was seeking to speak to John Tomlin, a 24-year-old man known to frequent Canning Town in relation to the incident. His Facebook page contained links to the far-right. Tomlin turned himself in to the Metropolitan Police on 9 July 2017. He was charged with causing grievous bodily harm and appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court on 11 July. He was remanded in custody and ordered to appear at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 8 August. At his hearing on 11 John Tomlin blew kisses at his supporters while in court.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction
The Wharf, a local newspaper, reported that residents were concerned about the increasing number of attacks involving noxious substances in East London. Following an incident in which a man sitting in a car in Commercial Road, Tower Hamlets had a noxious liquid, believed to be bleach, thrown in his face and his car stolen, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs issued a statement seeking to reassure residents.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction
Stand Up To Racism announced a "vigil in solidarity with Resham and Jameel, and the victims of anti-Muslim hate crime" planned to be held outside Stratford station on 5 July.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction
A crowdfunding campaign set up to help support the pair's aftercare has raised over £46,000.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction, Criticism of media coverage and police response
Jameel Muhktar criticised the initial lack of media coverage and the framing of the incident. Muhktar told Channel 4 News that "If this was an Asian guy like myself, going up to an English couple in a car and acid attacking them, I know for a fact and the whole country knows that it would be classed as a terror attack". He suggested the incident may have been motivated by Islamophobia and as revenge for recent terrorist attacks in the UK.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction, Criticism of media coverage and police response
Resham Khan reported that the Metropolitan Police took "several days" to take any statement from her and that the London Ambulance Service "took too long" to arrive; with the victims being driven to hospital by a bystander.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction, Criticism of media coverage and police response
In an article for The Independent, Sufyan Ismail was critical of the media coverage of the incident, noting most mainstream media failed to cover the incident or "at best relegated it to a minor story". Ismail suggested that had the roles of the victims and perpetrator been reversed the case would have been headline news. He compared the acid attack to violent hate-murders of Muslims that had received little coverage in contrast with the murder of Jo Cox or that of Lee Rigby.


2017 Beckton acid attack, Reaction, Government response
In an article for The Sunday Times on 16 July, Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary cited the attack on Khan and Mukhtar when she announced an "action plan to tackle acid attacks" which would include "wide-ranging review of the law enforcement and criminal justice response, of existing legislation, of access to harmful products and of the support offered to victims."


2017 Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C. season
The  2017 Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C. season  was their 14th consecutive season in the Chinese Super League, established in the 2004 season, and 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Chinese football. They competed in the Chinese Super League and Chinese FA Cup.


2017 Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C. season, First team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 Belarusian First League
The 2017 Belarusian First League was the 27th season of 2nd level football in Belarus. It started in April and finished in November 2017.


2017 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2016 season
Two best teams of 2016 Belarusian First League (Gomel and Dnepr Mogilev) were promoted to Belarusian Premier League. They were replaced by two lowest placed teams of 2016 Belarusian Premier League table (Belshina Bobruisk and Granit Mikashevichi).


2017 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2016 season
Oshmyany, who finished 14th last year, relegated to the Second League. Due to First League expansion to 16 teams, they were replaced by three best teams of 2016 Second League (Volna Pinsk, Osipovichi and Kletsk). Kletsk eventually withdrew from participation due to club's lack of financing and infrastructure, and was replaced by Second League 4th placed team Neman-Agro Stolbtsy.


2017 Belarusian First League, Team changes from 2016 season
Before the start of the season Gomelzheldortrans changed their name to Lokomotiv Gomel, Slonim to Slonim-2017 and Zvezda-BGU Minsk to Energetik-BGU Minsk.


2017 Belarusian Premier League
The 2017 Belarusian Premier League was the 27th season of top-tier football in Belarus. The season began on 1 April 2017 and ended on 26 November 2017. BATE Borisov were the defending champions, having won their 11th consecutive league title and 13th overall last year, and successfully defended their crown.


2017 Belarusian Premier League, Teams
The bottom two teams from the 2016 season, Granit Mikashevichi and Belshina Bobruisk, were relegated to the 2017 Belarusian First League. They were replaced by Gomel and Dnepr Mogilev, champions and runners-up of the 2016 Belarusian First League respectively.


2017 Belarusian Premier League, Results
Each team plays home-and-away once against every other team for a total of 30 matches played each.


2017 Belarusian Super Cup
The 2017 Belarusian Super Cup was held on 11 March 2017 between the 2016 Belarusian Premier League champions BATE Borisov and the 2015–16 Belarusian Cup winners Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino. BATE won the match 3–1 and won the trophy for the seventh time.


2017 Belarusian protests
The 2017 Belarusian protests were a series of demonstrations and street protests against President Alexander Lukashenko that broke out in late February 2017. Protesters mobilized against a tax levied against the unemployed in Belarus. Demonstrations and marches were held in sites throughout the country with sizes of several hundred to several thousand gathering at a given time.


2017 Belarusian protests, Context
Belarus has been described for several years as Europe's "last dictatorship" with no genuine political opposition against Lukashenko possible. Previous protests in 2011 and 2015 resulted in mass arrests. The country has also been in an economic recession since 2015 due to falling gasoline prices and that year a law was passed taxing the unemployed. Roughly 470,000 Belarusians are obliged to pay the tax but only about 10% have since it was issued.


2017 Belarusian protests, Activities
Approximately 2,500 protesters filled the streets in Minsk on 17 February to protest a policy that required anyone who works for less than 183 days per year to pay USD$250 for "lost taxes" to help fund welfare policies. This converts to approximately p.5 million—a half-month's wages. The law has proven unpopular and has been mocked in the public as the "law against social parasites". On 19 February, another 2,000 demonstrated in the second city of Gomel. Both gatherings were peaceful. Smaller demonstrations were held in other cities.


2017 Belarusian protests, Activities
On 25 March, opposition leader Vladimir Nekliayev, who was set to speak at the main protest, was stopped in the morning on his way to Minsk, his wife said.


2017 Belarusian protests, Activities
The government defended the mass arrests and beatings against citizens by alleging that the police had found "petrol bombs and arms-laden cars" near a protest in Minsk.


2017 Belarusian protests, Timeline of the events, 10 March
After the rally, the organizers received 15 days of arrest.


2017 Belarusian protests, Timeline of the events, 15 March
To the protesting crowd came member of parliament Ihar Marzaliuk, five people arrested


2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup
The 2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup, for sponsorship reasons the bpost Supercup, was the 20th edition of the annual super cup game in Belgian basketball. Oostende, winner of the 2016–17 Basketball League Belgium Division I, played against at Hubo Limburg United, runners-up of the 2016–17 Belgian Basketball Cup.


2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup
The game was played at 16 September 2017 in the Sleuyter Arena in Ostend.


2017 Belgian Basketball Supercup, Match details
Oostende won its 10th Supercup, after Mike Myers hit the game-winning buzzer beater. Vincent Kesteloot was named the Most Valuable Player, after he recorded 14 points and 5 assists.


2017 Belgian Cup Final
The 2017 Belgian Cup Final, named Croky Cup after the sponsor, was the 62nd Belgian Cup final and took place on 18 March 2017 between Oostende and Zulte Waregem. Oostende qualified for the final for the first time in its history, while Zulte Waregem already played two finals, winning against Mouscron in 2006 but losing against Lokeren in 2014. In a spectacular match, Oostende twice took the lead but Zulte Waregem returned to force 2–2 after 90 minutes. During the extra-time, both teams scored once more. Zulte Waregem finally won 4–2 on penalties and thereby qualified for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League Group stage.


2017 Belgian Cup Final, Match, Summary
Harsh fouls by Michiel Jonckheere and Timothy Derijck in the opening minutes set the tone, with neither team intending to give away any opportunities. After the initial ten minutes, Oostende started to take the initiative, with Franck Berrier missing the target on a cross from Brecht Capon and Knowledge Musona nearly taking advantage of a mistake by Sammy Bossut. With nearly twenty minutes played, Marvin Baudry slipped, allowing Landry Dimata to run away with the ball and shoot it into the far corner to open the scoring for Oostende.


2017 Belgian Cup Final, Match, Summary
Zulte Waregem quickly responded as William Dutoit could only deflect a free-kick by Brian Hämäläinen against the post, which gave Derijck an easy tap in to score the equaliser. Oostende responded immediately, with Musona hitting the cross bar from 20 meters. The game was now flowing up and down with many chances on both sides of the pitch. Before half time spectators witnessed a header by Dimata, a save by Dutoit on another Hämäläinen free-kick and a shot from Musona, but the score remained 1–1 going into the break.


2017 Belgian Cup Final, Match, Summary
The second half started immediately where the first half had left off. Henrik Dalsgaard missed a header for Zulte Waregem, but following an attacking combination, Dimata scored his second of the night, back-heeling the cross from Adam Marušić into the net to give Oostende the lead again with 54 minutes played. Oostende pushed and when Franck Berrier and Musona ripped open the Zulte Waregem defence it looked like Oostende was going to score again soon. Zulte Waregem manager Francky Dury brought in Coopman and Guèye to turn the tide and when Marušić' header back to Dutoit fell short, Coopman exploited the mistake to score the equalizer a few minutes past the hour mark.


2017 Belgian Cup Final, Match, Summary
Even at 2–2 both teams kept attacking, with first Onur Kaya missing a huge opportunity for Zulte Wargem followed by Sammy Bossut having to throw himself in the line of fire three times to deny Oostende a third goal. In the added time, both teams had an excellent opportunity to score the winning goal, as both Dimata and Mbaye Leye failed to score from a header.


2017 Belgian Cup Final, Match, Summary
During the first half of extra-time, both teams seemed to have used up most of their energy, with some players suffering cramps and other barely able to run. Out of the blue, Guèye headed in a free-kick in the second half of extra-time with less than ten minutes to play, forcing Oostende to hunt for the late equalizer but failing to create big chances until Dalsgaard touched the ball with his hand in the penalty area, forcing referee Sébastien Delferière to award a penalty to Oostende, which Musona converted to set the final score to 3–3.


2017 Belgian Cup Final, Match, Summary
During the penalty shoot-out, Sammy Bossut saved the penalty kicks from both Fernando Canesin and Musona, allowing Hämäläinen to score the winning goal, thereby handing Zulte Waregem their second cup victory.


2017 Belgian Grand Prix
The 2017 Belgian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Pirelli Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 27 August 2017 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium. The race, scheduled to be contested over forty-four laps, was the twelfth round of the 2017 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marked the seventy-third running of the Belgian Grand Prix and the sixtieth time the race was held at Spa-Francorchamps.


2017 Belgian Grand Prix
Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel entered the round with a fourteen-point lead over Lewis Hamilton in the World Drivers' Championship with Valtteri Bottas a further nineteen points behind in third. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by thirty-nine points before the race.


2017 Belgian Grand Prix
In his 200th Grand Prix, Hamilton started the race from pole position for the 68th time in his career, equaling the record of Michael Schumacher for most poles, and went on to win the race. In doing so, he closed to within seven points of Vettel's championship lead.


2017 Belgian Grand Prix
Television and Motorsport personality Guy Martin was present as part of the Williams pit team as part of filming for an episode of his 'Speed' series.


2017 Belgian Grand Prix, Race
At the start Lewis Hamilton held off Sebastian Vettel to lead although Vettel would continue to pressure him for most of the race. In the second half of the race, the safety car came out after the two Force India cars of Esteban Ocon and Sergio Pérez collided leaving debris on the track, earlier in the race both Pérez and Ocon had also touched wheels. Hamilton was not happy with the deployment of the safety car labelling it "BS", on the restart he came under attack again from Vettel but was able to fend him off up until the finish. Daniel Ricciardo came home in 3rd place, Valtteri Bottas' chances of the title were fading after only managing 5th.


2017 Belgian Road Cycling Cup
The 2017 Belgian Road Cycling Cup (known as the Napoleon Games Cycling Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the second edition of the Belgian Road Cycling Cup. It was won by Jasper De Buyst who overtook Kenny Dehaes in the standings by winning the final race, Binche–Chimay–Binche. Timothy Dupont was the defending champion.


2017 Belgian Road Cycling Cup, Events
Compared to the initial season, Dwars door West-Vlaanderen was added to the calendar, replacing the Nationale Sluitingsprijs.


2017 Belgian Road Cycling Cup, Race results
As opposed to the top 20 riders in 2016, the top 15 riders score points for the general classification.


2017 Belgian Road Cycling Cup, Final championship standings, Teams
LottoNL–Jumbo won the teams classification by winning two of the races, whereas Roompot–Nederlandse Loterij won only one.


2017 Belgian Super Cup
The 2017 Belgian Super Cup was a football match that took place on 22 July 2017 between Anderlecht, winners of the 2016–17 Belgian First Division A and Zulte Waregem, winners of the 2016–17 Belgian Cup. For the first time in Belgian football, a video assistant referee was used to review decisions during the match.


2017 Belgium Tour
The 2017 Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour  is the fifth edition of the Lotto-Belisol Belgium Tour, previous called Lotto-Decca Tour, a women's cycle stage race in Belgium. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.1.


2017 Belk Bowl
The 2017 Belk Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 29, 2017. The game was the 16th edition of the Belk Bowl and featured the Wake Forest Demon Deacons of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Texas A&M Aggies of the Southeastern Conference. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The game was sponsored by department store chain Belk.


2017 Belk Bowl, Teams, Wake Forest
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons finished the 2017 regular season with a 7–5 record. The game was the team's second appearance in the bowl; they made their first appearance in 2007, when the game was known as the Meineke Car Care Bowl.


2017 Belk Bowl, Teams, Texas A&M
The Texas A&M Aggies finished the 2017 regular season with a 7–5 record. The game was the team's first appearance in the bowl.


2017 Belmont Stakes
The 2017 Belmont Stakes was the 149th running of the Belmont Stakes and the 106th time the event took place at Belmont Park. The 1+1⁄2-mile (2,400 m) race, known as the "test of the champion", is the final jewel in Thoroughbred horse racing's American Triple Crown series. The race was on June 10, 2017, and was broadcast by NBC starting at 5 PM EDT. For the second straight year, the Belmont did not have a Triple Crown at stake, as 2017 Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming had lost in the Preakness Stakes. The race was won by Tapwrit.


2017 Belmont Stakes, Field
The connections of both Always Dreaming, the 2017 Kentucky Derby winner, and Cloud Computing, the winner of the 2017 Preakness Stakes, decided to bypass the Belmont. Classic Empire would have been the favorite of the remaining contenders for the race, but was withdrawn on June 7 because of a recurrent foot abscess. Classic Empire, the champion two-year-old colt of 2016, finished fourth in the Derby and second in the Preakness.


2017 Belmont Stakes, Field
Another leading contender was Epicharis, a Japanese-bred horse who qualified on the 2017 Road to the Kentucky Derby but who bypassed that race to focus on the Belmont. The New York Racing Association offers a $1-million bonus to any Japan-based horse who wins the Belmont. Epicharis entered a one-week isolation protocol on May 25 and shipped to Belmont Park on June 1. Unfortunately, Epicharis went lame on June 7 and was scratched on June 10 by the state veterinarian. "He had foot soreness – heel soreness – earlier in the week and he just wasn’t sound", said Scott Palmer, NYRA's equine medical director. "In a week maybe he could be ready, but we ran out of time. The right decision was made. The top priority is the horse."


2017 Belmont Stakes, Field
In their absence, Irish War Cry was made the morning line favorite at odds of 7–2. Irish War Cry won the Wood Memorial Stakes in April and finished tenth in the Kentucky Derby.


2017 Belmont Stakes, Field
Other confirmed contenders include Tapwrit (Tampa Bay Derby); Gormley (Santa Anita Derby); J Boys Echo (Gotham Stakes); Lookin At Lee (2nd Kentucky Derby); Multiplier (Illinois Derby); Senior Investment (Lexington Stakes); Twisted Tom (Federico Tesio Stakes); Meantime (2nd Peter Pan Stakes); Patch (2nd Louisiana Derby); and Hollywood Handsome (5th Illinois Derby).


2017 Belmont Stakes, Race description
Even though a Triple Crown was not at stake, the race drew a good crowd of 57,729. The start was good, but the field was tightly bunched going into the first turn. At the back of the pack, longshot Hollywood Handsome checked sharply after almost clipping heels with the horses in front of him, causing jockey Florent Geroux to lose his stirrups. Hollywood Handsome raced out of control for nearly a quarter of a mile before Geroux was able to pull him up. The horse was vanned off the racetrack as a safety precaution but suffered only a laceration below the left knee.


2017 Belmont Stakes, Race description
With no true speed horses in the race, Irish War Cry went to the lead and set a moderate pace. Tapwrit and Gormley raced together just off the pace and made their moves rounding the far turn. Tapwrit had the better acceleration and started closing ground on Irish War Cry down the stretch. As the gap narrowed, Tapwrit drifted out to the center of the track then drifted back towards the rail, brushing lightly with Irish War Cry. In the final strides, Tapwrit pulled clear, ultimately winning by two lengths. Patch closed ground late to beat out Gormley for third.


2017 Belmont Stakes, Race description
"Tapwrit was getting a beautiful trip", said Pletcher. "It was everything we talked about in the paddock before the race. We were hoping he had enough when it came to crunch time. It looked like Irish War Cry still had something left, but the last sixteenth, [Tapwrit] dug down deep."


2017 Belmont Stakes, Race description
"It actually wasn't our plan to be on the lead", said Graham Motion, the trainer of Irish War Cry. "We kind of hoped that somebody else would go for it, but he had to go to Plan B and [jockey] Rajiv [Maragh] did a great job."


2017 Belmont Stakes, Race description
The first four finishers had all run in the Derby, then skipped the Preakness. "We felt like with the five weeks in between, and with the way this horse had trained, that he had a legitimate chance", said Pletcher, who is based at Belmont Park. "I think that's always an advantage."


2017 Belmont Stakes, Chart
Times: 1⁄4 mile – 0:23.88;  1⁄2 mile – 0:48.86; 3⁄4 mile – 1:14.01; mile – 1:38.95; 1+1⁄4 miles – 2:04.10; final – 2:30.02. Splits for each quarter-mile: (:23.88) (:24.78) (:25.35) (:24.94) (:25.15) (:25.92)


2017 Bendigo Women's International
The 2017 Bendigo Women's International was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament and was part of the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Bendigo, Australia, on 6–12 November 2017.


2017 Bendigo Women's International – Doubles
Asia Muhammad and Arina Rodionova were the defending champions, but they lost in the final to Alison Bai and Zoe Hives, 4–6, 6–4, [10–8].


2017 Bendigo Women's International – Singles
Risa Ozaki was the defending champion, but chose to compete in Tokyo instead.


2017 Bendigo Women's International – Singles
Tamara Zidanšek won the title, defeating Olivia Rogowska in the final, 5–7, 6–1, 6–0.


2017 Bengaluru Open
The 2017 Bengaluru Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bangalore, India from 20 to 25 November 2017.


2017 Bengaluru Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Bengaluru Open – Doubles
Mikhail Elgin and Divij Sharan won the title after defeating Ivan and Matej Sabanov 6–3, 6–0 in the final.


2017 Bengaluru Open – Singles
Sumit Nagal won the title after defeating Jay Clarke 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 in the final.


2017 Benin Premier League
The 2017 Benin Premier League (Championnat National de la Ligue 1) started on 8 July 2017.


2017 Benin Premier League, First round
The top three teams of each poule advance to the final round, while the bottom two (or three) are relegated.


2017 Benin Premier League, Final round
Teams only play those of other group twice; head-to-head results from the initial group stage are not carried over.


2017 Bennelong by-election
A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Bennelong was held on 16 December 2017.


2017 Bennelong by-election
Previous incumbent and Liberal candidate John Alexander won the by-election despite a 4.8 percentage point two-party swing to Labor candidate Kristina Keneally which made the seat marginal.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Background
Amid the 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis, the trigger for the by-election was the resignation of Liberal incumbent John Alexander effective 11 November 2017. Following the increased media attention on the citizenship status of parliamentarians, Alexander asked British authorities for evidence of his British-born father renouncing British citizenship. They were unable to find any, leaving Alexander unable to demonstrate he was not a British citizen by descent, meaning he would be ineligible under Section 44 of the Constitution to sit in the Parliament of Australia. Alexander subsequently renounced his British citizenship, in order to nominate for election again.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Background
Speaker of the House of Representatives Tony Smith issued the writ for the election on 13 November 2017, the same day that Alexander submitted his resignation.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Key dates
As at least 33 days must elapse between the issue of a writ and the date of a by-election, the earliest Saturday that the by-election could take place was on 16 December.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Events
Following the win by Barnaby Joyce in a similarly Section 44 triggered by-election in the Division of New England on 2 December 2017, the Liberal-National coalition maintained its one-seat majority in the Australian House of Representatives. However, a loss in Bennelong would have left the government reliant on crossbench support. Given this unusual opportunity for an Opposition to destabilise the government's position in parliament outside of a general election, the Labor Party chose former New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally as a high-profile candidate.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Events
In the months prior to the by-election, the 2017 Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey was conducted asking the question, "Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?". Bennelong was among 12 of 47 federal electoral divisions in New South Wales and among 17 of 150 seats nationally to record a majority No response; with Yes on 49.8 percent and No on 50.2 percent, compared to the New South Wales result of Yes on 57.8 percent and No on 42.2 percent, and the national result of Yes on 61.6 percent and No on 38.4 percent. Parliament passed legislation to legalise same-sex marriage on 8 December 2017.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Events
On 12 December 2017, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari announced his intention to resign from the Australian Senate, after weeks of controversy over his links and interactions with Chinese donors. Commentary deriving from Dastyari's statement was mixed, with some commentators signalling it might damage the Labor brand with voters right before they headed to the polls while others pointed to the large Chinese-Australian community in the electorate who might have got an impression that the government was pushing a "China-phobic narrative", given the pressure placed on Dastyari to resign in the weeks prior.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Events
On 14 December 2017, it was revealed that Liberal candidate John Alexander had failed the requirement to declare rental income to the parliamentary register of members' interests from his $1440-a-day 100-acre $4.8-million property in the New South Wales Southern Highlands which he had purchased in June 2017.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Results
Previous incumbent and Liberal candidate John Alexander won the by-election despite a 4.8 percentage point two-party swing to Labor candidate Kristina Keneally which made the seat marginal.


2017 Bennelong by-election, Results
The Liberal primary vote was the lowest on record in Bennelong's 68-year history, including the 2007 Bennelong outcome which was the only election in which the Liberals failed to win Bennelong.


2017 Benue State flooding
The 2017 Benue State flooding took place in September 2117 in Central Nigeria. It displaced 100,000 people, and damaged around 2,000 homes. Flooding in the area is common due to heavy rains and the Benue River, which runs through the area.


2017 Berkeley protests
The 2017 Berkeley protests were a series of protests and clashes between organized groups that occurred in the city of Berkeley, California, in the vicinity of the University of California campus. Violence occurred predominantly between protesters opposed to then-President Donald Trump, including activists such as antifa groups and socialists; and pro-Trump groups such as Republican, alt-lite, alt-right, neo-Nazis, and white nationalists. The majority of the participants on both sides were people who wanted to listen to the speakers peacefully, and peaceful protesters against the speakers.


2017 Berkeley protests
The first event occurred on February 1, when Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a speech at the university. Two later incidents on March 4 and April 15, were pro-Trump rallies met by protesters. Another rally occurred on April 27, hosted by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman, Brittany Pettibone, Lauren Southern, and others at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park. This was scheduled after a planned speech by Ann Coulter was canceled. A "Say No to Marxism" rally planned to be held in the same park on August 27 was officially canceled by the organizers, but still drew both Trump supporters and protesters.


2017 Berkeley protests
Protests and clashes continued into the month of September, with a campus visit from conservative radio host Ben Shapiro and the return of Yiannopoulos for "Berkeley Free Speech Week". Security for the September events, though "Free Speech Week" was officially canceled by the organizers, cost the university hundreds of thousands of dollars.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, February 1
On February 1, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to make a speech at the University of California, Berkeley at 8 p.m. Prior, more than 100 UC Berkeley faculty signed a petition urging the university to cancel the event.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, February 1
Over 1,500 people gathered on the steps of Sproul Hall to protest the event. The protest had been a non-violent, student gathering until a group of 150 black bloc protesters slowly entered the crowd and interrupted the protest. The interrupting protesters claimed to be antifa activists and members of the left-wing group By Any Means Necessary, however this group was later uncovered to be members of the alt-right white nationalist group called the Rise Above Movement The group of interrupting protestors set fires, damaged property, threw fireworks, attacked members of the crowd, and threw rocks at the police.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, February 1
Within twenty minutes of the start of the violence, the Yiannopoulos event was officially canceled by the university police department due to security concerns, and protesters were ordered to disperse. The interrupting protesters continued for several hours afterwards, with some protesters moving into downtown Berkeley to break windows at several banks, a Starbucks, a Target, a Sprint store, and a T-Mobile store.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, February 1
Among those assaulted were a Syrian Muslim, who was pepper sprayed and hit with a rod by an interrupting protesters who said "You look like a Nazi", and Kiara Robles, who was pepper sprayed while being interviewed by a TV reporter. One person was arrested for failure to disperse, and there was an estimated $100,000 in damage.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, March 4
A march in support of then-President Donald Trump in Berkeley on March 4 billed as "March 4 Trump" resulted in seven injuries and ten arrests after confrontations with protesters. Police confiscated several weapons from attendees of the rally, including baseball bats, bricks, metal pipes, pieces of lumber, and a dagger.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 15
On April 15, several groups, including approximately 50 members of the right-wing group Oath Keepers, held a pro-Trump rally and were met by protesters, including antifa activists. Planned speakers included Brittany Pettibone and Lauren Southern. The event was organized as a free speech rally by Rich Black, who also organized the March 4 Trump event.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 15
At Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park a "large number of fights" broke out, smoke bombs and fireworks were thrown into the melee, and pepper spray was used in the crowd. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Both groups threw rocks and sticks at each other and used a large trash bin as a battering ram as the crowd moved around the perimeter of the park." Eleven people were injured, six of whom were hospitalized, including one person who was stabbed. Police "seized a handful of cans of peppers [sic] spray, some knives, and dozens of sign and flag poles, skateboards, and other blunt objects" from members of the crowd. Twenty people were arrested.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 15
A Reuters reporter estimated that between 500 and 1,000 people were in the park at the peak of the rally. Various far-right activists in the crowd held up antisemitic signs, and some made Nazi salutes and used other Nazi/neo-Nazi symbolism such as the Black Sun / Sonnerad The neo-nazi Rise Above Movement (RAM) also attended and some of their members were arrested.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 15
During the event, Nathan Damigo—a 30-year-old California State University, Stanislaus student and the founder of the white supremacist, alt-right group Identity Evropa punched a female protester in the face and then ran into the crowd. The attack was captured on video and prompted calls for Damigo's arrest or expulsion. Cal State Stanislaus stated that they would investigate Damigo.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 15
Also during the event, a man covering his face with a bandanna attacked three rally attendees with a bike lock, hitting one them on the head and causing "significant injuries". He was later identified by 4chan's /pol/ users as a former Diablo Valley College professor, named Eric Clanton, and subsequently arrested on three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and ultimately sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to all charges.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 27
On April 18, 2017, administrators at UC Berkeley canceled a planned April 27 appearance on the campus by conservative columnist Ann Coulter, citing safety concerns. Coulter tweeted on April 19 that she would be coming to Berkeley to speak on that date regardless. On April 20, the University stated that they would host Coulter on May 2 at a "protected venue" that would be disclosed at a later date.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 27
Coulter declined to reschedule, noting that she was unavailable on May 2 and that UC Berkeley had no classes scheduled for that week, and said she would hold her speech on April 27 with or without the university's consent. She later said that she did not intend to speak, but said she might attend the April 27 event. Right-wing activist Brittany Pettibone delivered remarks promising that conservatives will refuse to stand down, which was met with applause from the crowd. Vice and Proud Boys co-founder Gavin McInnes read Ann Coulter's planned speech at the event. Other speakers at the rally included the conservative-libertarian writer Lauren Southern. There was concern the gathering would turn violent based on "social media feeds of militant left-wing and right-wing activists abuzz with plans to proceed with demonstrations over the Coulter-Berkeley controversy."


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, April 27
The International Socialist Organization organized an "Alt-Right Delete" rally at Sproul Plaza. About 150 people attended the rally and 70 police officers monitored the situation. Several hundred attended a "Freedom of Speech" rally at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley. The demonstrations were relatively peaceful; however, there was some tension as five were arrested, one for a weapons violation and another for drug possession.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, August 27
Between 2,000 and 4,000 people attended a "Rally Against Hate" protest against a far-right "Say No to Marxism" rally scheduled for Martin Luther King Civic Center Park in Berkeley on August 27. The protest was part of a larger nationwide backlash against far-right movements in the aftermath of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier that month. The "Say No to Marxism" rally was cancelled due to safety concerns and only a small number of anti-Marxist protestors attended.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, August 27
Scheduled attendees at the far-right rally included Augustus Invictus, Jack Posobiec, and Kyle Chapman (none of whom attended), Johnny Benitez, organizer of an "America First" rally in Laguna Beach, and Irma Hinojosa of Latinos for Trump. The rally followed a largely peaceful protest held the day before in nearby San Francisco, in response to a rally that was organized then later cancelled by Patriot Prayer.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, August 27
The Berkeley protest drew supporters mostly from area labor unions, churches, and liberal activist groups, as well as antifa activists. Five hundred police officers were present. Police banned weapons and projectiles, and set up a barricade of dump trucks to protect the crowd from vehicles.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, August 27
The protest was initially peaceful until about 100 masked black-clad anti-fascists carrying shields and sticks broke through police lines, bypassing security checks. The Berkeley police chief had ordered his officers to abandon the park, arguing that confronting the antifa activists would have led to more violence. The masked protesters targeted the small number of right-wing activists attending the announced rally, in some cases pepper-spraying and chasing them away, or beating them.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, August 27
African American journalist Al Letson of Reveal, who was covering the event, saw five masked protesters beating an unarmed man with sticks. Fearing for the man's life, Letson used his body as a human shield and encouraged the protesters to discontinue their attacks. Joey Gibson of Patriot Prayer, also present at this rally, was escorted out by the police after being attacked, and Hinojosa and others required police escorts to exit safely. Anti -fascists threatened to break the cameras of journalists who recorded them. Afterwards, the demonstrators marched to the nearby Ohlone Park where they dispersed. Thirteen people were arrested on various charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and felony assault. One officer and six other people were injured with two taken to local hospitals for treatment.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin asked UC Berkeley in August 2017 to cancel conservatives' speech plans slated for September 24–27 in prevention of violent civil unrest. In September 2017, Cal Chancellor Carol Christ said: "Call toxic speech out for what it is, don't shout it down, for in shouting it down, you collude in the narrative that universities are not open to all speech. Respond to hate speech with more speech"; and, president of the University of California system, Janet Napolitano, said: "I think some of these speakers are coming deliberately to provoke ... a response. But nonetheless they're coming to speak, they're coming to put forward controversial and noxious ideas. Colleges and universities are places where noxious ideas are expressed. So how you ... protect that value, that's the challenge that we face."


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 14
On September 14, conservative radio host Ben Shapiro gave a speech at the campus, which was covered by a crew for the political documentary No Safe Spaces. No one wearing masks or with weapons was allowed on campus, and the Berkeley City Council authorized the police to use pepper spray, a weapon that had been banned in the city for twenty years. The campus also set up concrete barriers and metal detectors, with a UC spokesman stating that about $600,000 was spent on security for Shapiro's speech. Hundreds gathered off campus at a "Refuse Fascism" rally to protest the event. Police made nine arrests; there was no major violence.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
A dozen commentators with right-wing political leanings, including Milo Yiannopoulos, Steve Bannon, Ann Coulter, Pamela Geller, David Horowitz, and Erik Prince, were extended invitations by the UC Berkeley student group Berkeley Patriot to participate in what it terms "Free Speech Week" in Berkeley September 24–27. Nearly two hundred professors and graduate students signed the open letter "Boycott the Alt-Right @UCBerkeley" calling for a boycott of campus for the four days of the planned events to ensure community members' "physical and mental safety". A UC Berkeley spokesman stated that the cost of security for Free Speech Week will exceed $1 million.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
Prior to the slated event, some students members of Berkeley Patriot filed a complaint with to the US Department of Justice alleging, among other things, that  the university had "arbitrary and irrational bureaucratic hurdles on student groups which seek to exercise their First Amendment rights by holding public debates."


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
Having not signed contracts with various invitees for them to appear and having already backed out of its only reserved, indoor venues, on September 23, Berkeley Patriot officially notified the campus that they were canceling all Free Speech Week activities. Milo Yiannopoulos stated that afternoon that he and other speakers would still come to campus and hold a "March for Free Speech" at noon on Sunday. About 300 protesters, including former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning, participated in a peaceful march to the campus on Saturday.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
On September 24, Yiannopoulos, Cernovich and Geller arrived outside Sproul Hall and Yiannopoulos spoke very briefly without a sound system and sang the US national anthem. Hundreds of protesters and supporters surrounded the police barricades that were erected that morning around Sproul Plaza. Attendees were permitted into the plaza only after passing through a single metal detector; approximately 150 people saw Yiannopoulos speak, while hundreds more waited in line. An "unprecedented" number of police officers were brought in, costing the university an estimated $800,000. Police banned weapons and face masks. Afterward, anti-Trump protesters, mocking Yiannopoulos's speech, chanted, "Immigrants are here to stay, Milo had to run away." Berkeley police reported at least 11 arrests, but no injuries or damage to buildings.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said afterwards that the media event amounted to "the most expensive photo op in the university's history."


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
On September 25, protesters holding a rally against white supremacy demonstrated at Wheeler Hall on the Berkeley campus. One person was arrested for wearing a mask to conceal his identity.


2017 Berkeley protests, Timeline, September, September 24–27
On September 26, fights broke out near Sproul Plaza between conservative and liberal groups, including Patriot Prayer and By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). The groups fought inside an "empathy tent" and then began marching to People's Park, where Kyle "Stickman" Chapman and others from Patriot Prayer spoke about a war on whites and a "battle for Berkeley". Police made three arrests, among them BAMN spokeswoman Yvette Felarca.


2017 Berkeley protests, Aftermath
Following the February 1 protest, a lawyer representing a local police union criticized the police administration for their "hands off" policy which prevented officers from preventing crime or making arrests. A police representative responded that they did not want to further escalate violence, and that the campus police were inexperienced in dealing with black bloc tactics. According to Berkeley Police chief Margo Bennett, they were waiting for reinforcements to come from Oakland Police and the Alameda County Sheriff before dispersing the crowds.


2017 Berkeley protests, Aftermath
Following the February events, Trump criticized UC Berkeley on Twitter, asserting that it "does not allow free speech" and threatening to de-fund the university.


2017 Berkeley protests, Aftermath
After the April events, several news organizations noted that the fighting demonstrated an increasing use of violence between members of both the far right and the far left.


2017 Berkeley protests, Aftermath
On June 6, 2017, Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit on the behalf of Robles, who alleges the university and others violated her First Amendment rights when she was attacked with pepper spray while being interviewed. In July 2017, Robles voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit.


2017 Berkeley protests, Aftermath
After the August events, Jesse Arreguin, the mayor of Berkeley, suggested classifying the city's antifa as a gang. The US House Minority Leader and Californian congressperson Nancy Pelosi condemned the violence allegedly perpetrated by antifa protesters, writing that "the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted."


2017 Berkeley protests, Aftermath
In January 2018, four people who were attacked while trying to attend a speech due to be given by Yiannopoulos filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley. The lawsuit alleged that campus and city officials failed to prepare for the rioting despite sufficient warning, and as a result would-be attendees were left vulnerable to assault by left-wing protest groups.


2017 Berlin Marathon
The 2017 Berlin Marathon was the 44th edition of the Berlin Marathon. The marathon took place in Berlin, Germany, on 24 September 2017 and was the fourth World Marathon Majors race of the year.


2017 Berlin Marathon
The men's race was won by Eliud Kipchoge, who failed to break the world record in rainy conditions, but withstood the terrific challenge of unknown marathon debutant Guye Adola. The women's race was won by Gladys Cherono of Kenya in 2:20:23, beating out Ruti Aga of Ethiopia by less than 20 seconds.