The most recent edition was held in Espinho, Portugal. Portugal were crowned as champions for the second time, the first under being controlled by FIFA, after defeating Tahiti 5–3 in the final.
EgyptAir
EgyptAir is the flag carrier of Egypt. It began in 1933. Originally, it was named "Misr Airwork". The name was finally changed to EgyptAir in October 1971. The airline was the first from the Middle east to have jet aircraft. In 2008, it joined Star Alliance. EgyptAir suffered heavy losses during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
Arash Sadeghi
Arash Sadeghi (Farsi: آرش صادقی) is an Iranian activist and political prisoner. He stated a hunger strike on October 24, 2016 after his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee went to prison for an unpublished story on her computer about a woman watching a movie about a stoning. the government promised to let her out of prison until her case was reviewed, but after Sadeghi ended his hunger strike, they took her back to prison.
Paul Kangas
Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was an American broadcaster. He was born in Houghton, Michigan. He was the co-anchor of the PBS television program "Nightly Business Report", a role he held since 1979 through December 31, 2009. He is best known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes").
Kangas died on February 28, 2017 in Miami, Florida from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.
Michael Bennet
Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer, and Democratic politician. He is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He became a senator when Ken Salazar was appointed Secretary of the Interior.
Bennet worked as managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver mayor (and former Colorado Governor) John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools.
On April 3, 2019, Bennet announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had surgery and was later announced cancer-free. A month later on May 2, Bennet launched his 2020 presidential campaign. He ended his campaign on February 11, 2020 after a poor performance in the New Hampshire primaries.
Bob Iger
Robert Allen "Bob" Iger (; born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020.
Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996.
He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in 2015.
On February 25, 2020, Iger announced his retirement as CEO of Disney.
Huntingdonshire
Huntingdonshire was an historic county of England. It is now is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire. Its council is based in Huntingdon.
Anna J. Cooper
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (Raleigh, August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author and educator. She was one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
She was born into enslavement. Her mother was Hannah Stanley Haywood, a slave in the home of prominent landowner George Washington Haywood.
Hallopus
Hallopus was a prehistoric crocodylomorph that was classified as a dinosaur in 1881 by Othniel Charles Marsh.
Coronium
Coronium was thought to be a chemical element in 1882. The evidence was a thin green spectrometry line in the solar corona. In 1930, it was proved that it did not exist. The green line was just highly ionized iron, (Fe), which is now called coronium.
Continental margin
The continental margin is the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust. Together, the continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise are called the continental margin. Continental margins are about 28% of the oceanic area.
Nyctibatrachus
Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog".
These frogs are quite common, and researchers think this has been overlooked because of their their small size. They are indeed extremely small, and can sit on a coin or a fingernail. However, they are not so small as "Paedophryne", which is the smallest land vertebrate.
Igor Sychev
Igor Sychev is a Kazakh blogger and a political prisoner. He received international attention when he went to prison over an online poll about whether Kazakhstan should join Russia in the same way as Crimea in the Ukraine.
Sychev is an ethnic Russian from a former Russian area in the east of Kazakhstan. It has a majority of ethnic Russian people. Sychev was the administrator of VKontakte, a popular Russian social networking site. On November 18, 2015, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Sychev said he did not put up the poll, and he took it down after he received complaints.
Synchev was convicted under a new law, passed in 2015, that prohibits calling for separatism. In January 2017, Sychev's sentence was upheld on appeal.
The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) asked the EU to support Sychev and other victims of free speech violations.
Anne Kristin Sydnes
Anne Kristin Sydnes (13 May 1956 – 3 March 2017) was a Norwegian politician. She was a member of the Labour Party. She served as the Minister of International Development from 2000 to 2001. She was married to Jan Egeland.
Sydnes died after a long illness on 3 March 2017, at the age of 60.
Jhulelal (Hinduism)
Jhulelal (Sindhi:جهوللال), Kutchi: ઝૂલેલાલ) is the "Ishta Dev" (community God) of Sindhi people. His birthday "Cheti Chand" falls on the second day of the Chaitra month. It is auspicious for Sindhis and celebrated all over the world.
HaBayit HaYehudi
HaBayit HaYehudi, Hebrew: הבית היהודי , meaning "The Jewish Home" (often called like that), is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is (far) right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, Modern Orthodox Jewish, and Religious Zionist.
Political leader is Rafi Peretz.
HaBayit HaYehudi was founded in 2008 as a result of a merger of three parties but in fact it is the successor of Mafdal (National Religious Party).
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 1 (-1).
Participating in the Fifth Netanyahu Government.
Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism (Hebrew: ציונות דתית - "Tziyonut Datit") is a branch of Zionism. It is a combination of Zionism and Judaism.
Religious Zionists are in favour of a State of Israel, that is mainly populated by Jews and dominated by Judaism.
In their view the State of Israel should encompass the entire Land of Israel ("Eretz Yisrael"). This includes the so-called Palestinian territories (West Bank, Gaza Strip) and also the Golan Heights.
Religious Zionism dominates Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel.
Politically Religious Zionists can especially be found in HaBayit HaYehudi (The Jewish Home) but also in HaLikud.
Yesh Atid
Yesh Atid, Hebrew: יש עתיד , meaning "There is a Future", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is centrist social liberal, secular, and Zionist.
Political leader is Yair Lapid.
Yesh Atid was founded in 2012.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 13 (/).
World Tamil Badminton Federation
The World Tamil Badminton Federation (WTBF) (Tamil: அகில உலக தமிழர் பூப்பந்தாட்ட பேரவை) is the international governing body of Badminton for the world Tamils. It conducts the annual international competition. The first ever tournament was held on 2013 in Switzerland.
Qantas Flight 32