A selection of main headlines from 2015 that dominated the media. This can be used in end of term lesson to encourage students to think about global issues facing the humanity.

2. January – Twelve are killed in terrorist attack on a French
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

3. March - German Wings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz
crashes the plain in French alps killing all 150
passengers on board. Investigation reviled that he
had suffered with severe mental health issues.

4. April - Jay Z launches music streaming app Tidal,
hoping to attract paying subscribers with it’s very
exclusive content.

5. April - 148 people were killed, the majority students, in
a mass shooting at the Garissa University College in Kenya,
perpetrated by the militant terrorist organization Al-
Shabaab.

6. April - A major earthquake in Nepal measuring 7.8 on
the Richter scale kills thousands of people and
destroys several historic landmarks.

7. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge was born on May
the 2nd

8. May - Conservatives win 12-seat majority in general
elections and David Cameron remains a Prime
Minister for another term.

9. May – Ireland becomes the first country to legalize
same-sex marriage by popular vote.

10. June - we meet Caitlyn Jenner, former Olympian
Bruce Jenner, famous for his role on the real life
drama show Meet the Kardashians.

11. June – ISIS claims responsibility for four attacks around the
world during the Ramadan, including the shooting in a
tourist resort in Tunisia where 44 holiday makers were killed
while sunbathing on the beach.

12. July - The mass shooting in the church in Charleston, USA
where nine people were killed by a gunman during Bible
study. His actions united people Charleston who called for
the removal of the Confederate flag.

13. July - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a
close flyby of Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft in
history to visit the distant world.

14. October - an airliner en route to Saint
Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh, crashes in Sinai
desert, killing all 217 passengers and 7 crew
members on board.

15. October - Nadiya Hussein wins The Great British Bake
Off final

16. November - Multiple attacks claimed by ISIS In Paris,
France, result in around 132 fatalities.

17. December – Paris Climate Change Conference:
leaders, experts, and advocates from all the nations
of the world will come together to finalize a new
global climate agreement.
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