Disasters and accidents
A fire at a karaoke bar in China's Henan province kills at least 11 people. (IANS via The Hindu)
An emergency rescue SMURD helicopter crashes into Lake Siutghiol, Constanţa County, Romania with four people killed. (ABC)[permanent dead link]
The death toll of the 2014 Indonesia landslide rises to 56. (AP via Fox News)
International relations
Philippine prosecutors charge a United States Marine with murder over the death of Jennifer Laude, a Filipino transgender woman. (The Washington Post)
Authorized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Denmark becomes the first country to officially submit a claim on the North Pole. (UPI)
About ten thousand people, including those of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA), protest in Germany against the presence of Muslims. (The Telegram)