Sky News is looking back at all the biggest news events of the past decade.
Successive governments in Ukraine had sought closer relations with the European Union but had been hindered by the links of many in power to the Kremlin. It came to a head when the government of Viktor Yanukovych, who was among the pro-Russians, was negotiating an agreement with the EU, and appeared to be stalling progress.
Almost as soon as the dust began to settle from the Maidan revolution, strangely uniformed armed men began appearing in Crimea, a peninsula considered by most UN members to be part of Ukraine but the site of a Russian base. The resulting war, which is ongoing, left at least 12,800 dead, according to the UN, some 3,300 of whom were civilians.
Before he did so, the plane disappeared from radar screens and only reappeared briefly hundreds of miles off course, to the northwest of Malaysia. Its dance moves were attempted to various degrees of success by political leaders including David Cameron, Barack Obama, UN head Ban Ki-moon and astronauts.
The man, who was at that time one of the world's most famous footballers, had form for biting, having been accused of injuring players in 2010 while playing for Ajax and 2013 while playing for Liverpool. The furore helped bring the tournament to life, after earlier fears of potential violence and crime, with the final won by a European team for the first time on continental American soil - Germany.Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was killed in a US raid in October
It took until 2019 before IS was defeated in Syria, with Baghdadi killing himself during a US operation in October. IS remains a potent force around the world and has inspired numerous terror attacks in the years since 2014.A family in Gaza walks past the remains of a building destroyed in fighting between Hamas and Israel
A ground invasion resulted in the destruction of dozens of supply tunnels, but in the years afterwards rocketing resumed and Palestinians continued to protest against the restrictions upon them.Health care workers leave an Ebola-risk area in Monrovia, Liberia Ebola was only stopped after an international effort sent medics and military personnel to the region to help isolate those who needed treatment.
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