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-Information needs: Information about the 2014 Tour de France and Vincenzo Nibali.
-Domain:  Sport
-Keyword query: Tour de France Nibali
-Date range: 2014/07
-Description: The 2014 Tour de France was the 101st edition of the Tour de France, it is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily
held in France. It started on 5 July in Leeds, United Kingdom, and concluded on 27 July in Paris, France. The Italian cyclist 
Vincenzo Nibali won the race by more than seven minutes.
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-Information needs: Information about the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
-Domain: Sport
-Keyword query: World Cup
-Date range: 2014/07
-Description: The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football 
teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014. It was the second time that Brazil staged the 
competition, and the fifth time in South America. In the final Germany national football team defeated Argentina in extra time, 
with the only goal being scored by Mario Gštze. Lionel Messi won Golden Ball award for best player of World Cup.
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-Information needs: Information about the Germany national football team and the Brazil national football team in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
-Domain: Sport
-Keyword query: Germany Brazil
-Date range: 2014/07
-Description: The Brazil vs Germany football match that took place on 8 July 2014 in Belo Horizonte, was the first semi-final match of the 
2014 FIFA World Cup. Brazil scored a goal in the last minute, ending the match with the score 7–1. Germany's Toni Kroos was 
selected Man of the Match. Joachim Lšw is the coach of the German national football team and led the team to win the 2014 
World Cup in Brazil. Luiz Felipe Scolari was the coach of the Brazil national football team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. 
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-Information needs: Information about Miroslav Klose beyond Ronaldo becoming the top goalscorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup .
-Domain: Sport
-Keyword query: Klose
-Date range: 2014/07
-Description: Miroslav Josef Klose is a German professional football player and best known for his performances in the German national 
team. He scored twice at the 2014 World Cup, which put him ahead of Ronaldo in the all-time list with 16 goals. He is the top 
goalscorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup, having scored five goals in his debut World Cup in 2002 and winning the Golden 
Boot at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. 
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-Information needs: Information about Kobe Bryant replacing Michael Jordan becoming the 3rd place of the List of NBA career scoring leader.
-Domain: Sport
-Keyword query: Kobe
-Date range: 2014/12
-Description: Kobe Bean Bryant is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball 
Association. On December 5th 2014 Bryant became the youngest player in league history to score 30,000 points, listing 
the 3rd place of List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders after Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and 
Karl Malone, replaced Michael Jordan. 
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-Information needs: Information about the Super Bowl XLIX.
-Domain: Sport
-Keyword query: Super Bowl
-Date range: 2015/01
-Description: Super Bowl XLIX was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League for the
2014 season. The American Football Conference champion New England Patriots defeated the National Football Conference 
champion Seattle Seahawks, to earn their fourth Super Bowl title. The game was played on February 1, 2015, at University 
of Phoenix Stadium.
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-Information needs: Information about George Clooney's wedding.
-Domain: Entertaiment
-Keyword query: Clooney
-Date range: 2014/09
-Description: George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and activist. George Clooney and his fiancŽe 
Amal Alamuddin exchanged wedding vows at Aman hotel in Venice, Italy. He was last married to actress Talia Balsam. Celebrity 
guests including Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Cindy Crawford joined couple in Italy for the ceremony. 
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-Information needs: Information about the film about Kim Jong-un distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment .
-Domain: Entertaiment
-Keyword query: Sony Kim Jong-un
-Date range: 2014/12
-Description: The Interview is a 2014 American political satire comedy film directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film stars 
Rogen and James Franco as journalists who set up an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, whom Randall Park 
played as, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. In November 2014, the computer systems of parent company 
Sony Pictures Entertainment were hacked by the "Guardians of Peace", a group in North Korea. The group also threatened 
terrorist attacks against cinemas that showed the film. In December 2014, Sony release it for online rental and purchase a 
limited release at select cinemas.
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-Information needs: Information about the 72nd Golden Globe Awards.
-Domain: Entertaiment
-Keyword query: Golden Globe Award
-Date range: 2015/01
-Description: The 72nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2014, was broadcast live from the 
Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11, 2015. The ceremony was produced by Dick Clark Productions in association with the 
Hollywood Foreign Press Association. George Clooney received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Tina Fey 
and Amy Poehler were the co-hosts for the third consecutive and final time. The Affair, Birdman, Boyhood, Fargo, The 
Theory of Everything, and Transparent were among the films and television shows that received multiple awards.
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-Information needs: Information about the film, in which Eddie Redmayne played as Stephen Hawking.
-Domain: Entertaiment
-Keyword query: Eddie Redmayne Hawking
-Date range: 2015/01
-Description: Eddie Redmayne played as Stephen Hawking in the film The Theory of Everything. Felicity Jones played as his wife. This film 
was directed by James Marsh. Redmayne's performance as Stephen Hawking was widely praised. The film received four 
Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne.
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-Information needs: Information about Alibaba Group making an IPO in the United States.
-Domain: Business
-Keyword query: Alibaba
-Date range: 2014/09
-Description: Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese E-Commerce company that provides sales services via web portals. The group 
began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com. In September 2014, the company made an IPO in the 
United States with Reuters Instrument Code "BABA.N". The pricing of the IPO initially raised US$21.8 billion, which later 
increased to US$25 billion, making it the largest IPO in history. On 19 September 2014, Alibaba's shares (BABA) began 
trading on the NYSE. SoftBank and Yahoo! Inc. are as part of its strategic partnership.
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-Information needs: Information about the large online shopping day Cyber Monday of Amazon.com.
-Domain: Business
-Keyword query: Cyber Monday Amazon
-Date range: 2014/11
-Description: Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The term "Cyber 
Monday" was created by marketing companies to persuade people to shop online. Cyber Monday has become an international 
marketing term used by online retailers across the world. As of 2014, amazon.de continues to advertise Cyber Monday and 
has extended it to an 8-day period ("Cyber Monday week") beginning on the Monday before Thanksgiving.
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-Information needs: Information about the Singles Day, which becomes a large online shopping day in China.
-Domain: Business
-Keyword query: Singles Day Jack Ma
-Date range: 2014/11
-Description: Singles' Day is an entertaining festival widespread among young Chinese people, to celebrate the fact that they are proud 
of being single. The date November 11th is chosen because the number "1" resembles an individual that is alone. This festival 
has gradually become one of the largest online shopping days in the world, with sales in Alibaba's sites Tmall and Taobao, 
by the effort of Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
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-Information needs: Information about the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine.
-Domain: Emergencies
-Keyword query: Malaysia Airlines
-Date range: 2014/07
-Description: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July 2014 after being 
shot down. The plane was mistakenly shot down by pro-Russian insurgents using a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from the 
territory which they controlled. The Boeing 777 airliner lost contact about 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border and crashed 
near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km from the border. All 283 passengers and 15 crew on board were killed.
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-Information needs: Information about the aviation accidents of Air AlgŽrie Flight 5017 MD-80 airplane.
-Domain: Emergencies
-Keyword query: MD-80
-Date range: 2014/07
-Description: Air AlgŽrie Flight 5017 was a scheduled flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed in Mali, 
near Gossi, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with 110 passengers and 6 crew on board, operated by Swiftair 
for Air AlgŽrie, departed from Ouagadougou Airport, was scheduled to land at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, and 
disappeared from radar about fifty minutes after take-off. There were no survivors.
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-Information needs: Information about the Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8051 crashed into the Java Sea.
-Domain: Emergencies
-Keyword query: Indonesia Java
-Date range: 2014/12
-Description: Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, operated by Indonesia AirAsia. 
On 28 December 2014, an Airbus A320 was scheduled to depart Juanda International Airport and arrive at Singapore Changi 
Airport. It lost contact with the Jakarta Area Control Centre and crashed into the Java Sea during bad weather. Search and 
rescue operations were activated by the Indonesia National Search and Rescue Agency. All 155 passengers and seven 
crew on board were killed.
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-Information needs: Information about the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
-Domain: Emergencies
-Keyword query: Charlie Hebdo
-Date range: 2015/01
-Description: On 7 January 2015 two gunmen forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in 
Paris. They killed 12 people and injured 11 others, including Cube, Georges Wolinski, many cartoonists and a French 
National Police officer. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in 
Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack. Charlie Hebdo had attracted attention for its controversial depictions of 
Muhammad. Hatred for Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, which made jokes about Islamic leaders as well as Muhammad, is 
considered to be the principal motive for the massacre.
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-Information needs: Information about Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend.
-Domain: Society
-Keyword query: Pistorius
-Date range: 2014/09
-Description: Oscar Pistorius is a South African sprint runner with nickname ÒBlade RunnerÓ and convicted murderer. Pistorius fatally shot 
his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide and received a five-year 
prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended prison sentence for a separate reckless 
endangerment conviction. Pistorius was the first athlete to compete at the Paralympic games and Olympic games, where he  
mainly entered the men's 400 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay races. 
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-Information needs: Information about Tim Cook announced coming out of the closet in a magazine.
-Domain: Society
-Keyword query: Tim Cook
-Date range: 2014/10
-Description: Tim Cook is an American business executive, and is the chief executive officer of Apple Inc., succeeded Steve Jobs. He is First 
Fortune 500 to Come Out. In October 2014, the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek published a first-person story of Tim Cook 
Òproud to be gayÓ. 
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-Information needs: Information about Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.
-Domain: Science
-Keyword query: Shuji Nakamura Nobel Prize
-Date range: 2014/10
-Description: Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor 
technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara 
(UCSB). Nakamura is regarded as the inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. He has also 
worked on green LEDs, and is responsible for creating the white LED and blue laser diodes used in Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. 
Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he is one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics.  
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-Information needs: Information about the spacecraft Rosetta first successful landing on a comet.
-Domain: Science
-Keyword query: Rosetta
-Date range: 2014/11
-Description: Rosetta is a space probe built by the European Space Agency. On 12 November, the lander module Philae performed the 
first successful landing on a comet and a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). The probe is named 
after the Rosetta Stone, and the lander is named after the Philae obelisk. The spacecraft is controlled from the European 
Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany.
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-Information needs: Information about Donald Tusk becoming the President of the European Council.
-Domain: Politics
-Keyword query: Donald Tusk
-Date range: 2014/12
-Description: Donald Tusk is a Polish politician and historian who succeeded Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council 
since 1 December 2014. Previously he was Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014, having also been co-founder and 
chairman of the Civic Platform party. He received strong support from a number of high profile European leaders, particularly 
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.