Portal:Current events/2014 March 8
March 8, 2014 (Saturday)
Disasters and accidents
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
- Malaysia Airlines loses contact with a Boeing 777-200ER passenger plane carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- United States Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul wins the annual CPAC presidential straw poll with 31% of the vote. (Real Clear Politics)