| 2015 | Scientists have concluded that a large ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter; the discovery was made by using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe aurora movements at the moon’s poles |
| 2014 | The European Central Bank announces its readiness to ensure that interest rates will remain steady or decrease as inflation rises |
| 2014 | The government of the U.K. has announced that it will put 11 million pounds into the funding of the Square Kilometer Array project, a radio telescope that will collect massive amounts of data from space, requiring immense computing resources |
| 2013 | For the first time in its history, the European Parliament rejects a European Union budget |
| 2013 | In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country’s first female Prime Minister |
| 2012 | A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications |
