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On 22 March 2016, three explosions occurred in Brussels, Belgium; two of which were at the Brussels Airport and one on the metro system.

On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox MP was shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, where she had been due to hold an advice surgery. She was left in critical condition and died from her injuries about an hour later.

The 2016 attack in Nice was a vehicular attack that took place in city of Nice, France on the evening of 14 July 2016.

On the evening of 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks—consisting of mass shootings, suicide bombings, and hostage-taking—occurred in Paris and in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis.

After being appointed by the Queen on 13 July 2016, Theresa May became the UK's second female prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher, and the first of the 21st century.

The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is scheduled to take place in the UK and Gibraltar before the end of 2017.

On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess Of Wales was fatally injured in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris.

On 11 September 2001, the World Trade Centre was hit by two hijacked planes.

Following a short period of illness, Pope John Paul II died on 2 April 2005.

The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States.

On 7 July 2005 - one day after the announcement of its successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games - London was struck by a series of coordinated suicide attacks.

On June 25, 2009, American singer Michael Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles, California.

In July 2009, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the NASA moon landings, ITN produced five special 10-minute programmes for ITV1 titled Mission to the Moon - News from 1969.

The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London.

On May 1, 2011 U.S. President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden was killed by a small team of Americans acting under Obama's direct orders, in a covert operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, about 50 km north of Islamabad.

At approximately 4:00 pm on 23 July 2011, two ambulances were called to the singer Amy Winehouse's home in Camden, London. Shortly afterwards, the Metropolitan Police confirmed her death.

Between 2 June and 5 June 2012, Queen Elizabeth II marked her 60th year as head of state of the UK and the Commonwealth, with various diamond jubilee events held in London and local parties held across the country.

On 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict announced his pending resignation, effective 28 February 2013, because of "lack of strength of mind and body".

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope on 13 March 2013, the second day of the 2013 papal conclave, taking the papal name Francis.

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died on 8 April 2013 at The Ritz Hotel in London after suffering a stroke.

On April 17, 2013, at the West Fertilizer Company plant in West, Texas (a city in McLennan County near Waco, Texas), an explosion occurred.

The first child and son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was born on 22 July 2013.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela died of a lung infection on 5 December 2013 at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg surrounded by his family.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014.

A referendum on whether Scotland should be an independent country took place on Thursday, 18 September 2014.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave his Budget to Parliament on Wednesday 18 March 2015.

On 24 March 2015, an Airbus A320-200, crashed 100 kilometres northwest of Nice, in the French Alps.

The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby girl at 8.34am on Saturday, 2nd May 2015.