| 2015 | The remains of Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, are escorted in a royal funeral procession; the remains were discovered in Leicester in 2012 and will be reburied at the Leicester Cathedral |
| 2014 | Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy, announces that it has found 200,000 of the 800,000 missing bitcoins belonging to customers; the missing bitcoins were overlooked because they had been stored in an older format in a ‘wallet’ presumed to be empty |
| 2014 | The Brazilian government is auctioning part of the nation’s television bandwidth spectrum to mobile phone companies, providing much-needed capacity to meet wireless demand |
| 2013 | The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef |
| 2013 | France’s former President, Nicolas Sarkozy is investigated over claims of illegal donations made by Liliane Bettencourt of L’Oreal, the country’s richest woman |
| 2012 | In Montreal, Canada, over 200,000 people march to protest against post-secondary education tuition hikes |
| 2012 | In Portugal, trade unions hold a 24-hour strike to protest austerity measures |
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