Asia retains its place as the continental grouping with the most FDI, with its $426bn inflows making it worth almost 30% of worldwide investment.
With violence surging in eastern Ukraine and EU-Russia relations getting ever chillier, Moscow threatened to quit the Council of Europe, the Strasbourg-based human rights body which has nothing to do with the EU, after the council's parliamentary assembly, grouping MPs from the member states, voted narrowly to strip Russia of its voting rights.
Among them is musician and social activist Paweł Kukiz, now polling 9%, and behind him on 5% is Janusz Korwin-Mikke, whose party has lent support to Ukip's grouping in the European parliament.
The price he has secured, in collusion with a powerful grouping in the cabinet, is Gordon Brown's head – though not yet.
At the time Emwazi denied that he was part of any terrorist grouping.
The non-attached grouping includes several who have broken off from their own parties as well as one Ukip member, Trevor Colman, who left the EFD grouping due to a disagreement over finances.
In 1970, as the Northern Ireland Troubles escalated, Gerry Fitt, John Hume and others associated with the civil rights campaign banded together to form a new grouping that they called the SDLP, to pursue their demands, democratically and peacefully, in both the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont and at Westminster.
Naomi Smith, chair of the Social Liberal Forum, a grouping of party members on the left of the party, said both Clegg and Ashdown had led the Lib Dems down a "centrist blind alley".
The Right Sector is a loose grouping of ultra-radical elements that led confrontations with riot police in Kiev, throwing molotov cocktails and wielding baseball bats.
There's also a split when it comes to the different grouping of university.
Parliamentary democracy in Turkey was also a big winner as the pro-Kurdish, secular centre-left grouping, the People's Democratic party (HDP), appeared to slip past the mandatory 10% threshold for representation with about 11% of the vote.
