Top News Stories –
Royal wedding – well close –
Celebrity couple Marian Rivera and Dingdong Yantes get married at the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral of Cubao in Quezon City, Philippines.
Dingdong Yantes and Marian Rivera
WBA knock out –
Alan Irvine becomes the second managerial casualty of the English Premier League season as West Bromwich Albion fire him after 7 months in charge.
Alan Irvine
Bad pirates –
Figures from TorrentFreak.com show that Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV in 2014 with over 8.1 million illegal downloads. See list of the day.
Peter Dinklage
Nut incident exec arrested –
Cho Hyun-ah, a former Korean Air executive who delayed a plane over how nuts were served has been detained shortly after a court in South Korea granted a warrant for her arrest. [see original story December 8th 2014]
Video of the Day –
Cinema Dehors from Filippo Rivetti on Vimeo.
List of the day –
| rank | show | est. downloads | est. US TV viewers |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | Game of Thrones | 8,100,000 | 7,160,000 |
| 2 | The Walking Dead | 4,800,000 | 17,290,000 |
| 3 | The Big Bang Theory | 3,900,000 | 18,240,000 |
| 4 | How I Met Your Mother | 3,500,000 | 13,130,000 |
| 5 | Gotham | 3,200,000 | 11,810,000 |
| 6 | Arrow | 2,900,000 | 3,920,000 |
| 7 | Grey’s Anatomy | 2,800,000 | 9,810,000 |
| 8 | Vikings | 2,700,000 | 3,560,000 |
| 9 | Suits | 2,500,000 | 2,800,000 |
| 10 | South Park | 2,400,000 | 2,400,000 |
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Other News Stories –
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Iraqi insurgency
- Iraqi government forces and allied Shia militia recapture the town of Dhuluiya in Saladin Province, north of Baghdad, from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (BBC)
- Somali civil war
- Arts and culture
- Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936,1937), dies of pneumonia at the age of 104. (BBC)
- Disasters and accidents
- Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501
- Indonesian officials confirm that at least three bodies have been recovered from the Java Sea off Borneo. (BBC)(CBS)
- 2014 Southeast Asian floods
- Flooding and the death toll continues in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. (Reuters)
- Law and crime
- A court in Moscow hands down a three and one half year suspended sentence for corruption to Alexei Navalny, a prominent anti-Putin activist. (The Denver Post)
- In three separate, but connected, crime scenes in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a suicidal man kills eight people and then himself. (Irish Times)
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