France clears the Calais Jungle, relocating six thousand migrants.
nuclear reactor to enter commercial operation in 20 years.
The pursuit of a car jacking suspect in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, leaves four police officers injured and hospitalized.
A gun battle that started when three armed men returned to a restaurant in Los Angeles, leaves 3 people dead and 12 others wounded. Police set up a dragnet for the suspects.
Following the Brexit vote and the subsequent drop in the exchange rate of the British pound to U.S. dollar, the FTSE 100 Index reaches an all-time intra-day high of 7,129.
The U.S. military launches Tomahawk cruise missiles from the USS Nitze against Houthi-controlled radar sites in Yemen following two incidents in which, according to U.S.
organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet
An accident on board the Thunder River Rapids Ride at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, leaves four people dead.
A gunman shoot dead a policemen in Cairo.
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians 3 runs to 2 at Illinois' Wrigley Field in Game 5 of the 2016 World Series to avoid elimination and force a Game 6 with the series standing at 3 games to 2 in favor of the Cleveland Indians. It is the Cubs' first-ever win of a World Series game at the stadium since October 1945.
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Matthew rises to 27 with at least five people still missing in North Carolina.
A suspected ISIL attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, leaves at least 12 Egyptian military personnel and 15 terrorists dead. ,
homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community
Gunmen attack a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta, leaving at least 59 people dead and 117 others injured.
Lorenzana will ask a detachment of 107 U.S.
Voters head to the polls in second round elections in constituencies where no candidate won over 50 percent on October 9 with the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union winning a plurality of seats. ,
AT&T reportedly agrees in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85 billion.
international quasi-judicial body established to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration
Per Wästberg, a member of the Swedish Academy, says that songwriter and artist Bob Dylan has not yet indicated whether he intends to accept the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
instruction to Federal government issued by the President of the United States
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, and the Governor of Indiana Mike Pence hold the first and only vice-presidential debate of the 2016 presidential election at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
Arab ethnic group who mostly adhere to Islam
Samsung announces an end of production of the Galaxy Note 7 after continued problems with its battery.
geographic region, group of eastern Indian states
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Pedro Sánchez, resigns.
A security operation by the Somali Army in Lower Shabelle region kills 14 al-Shabaab fighters.
bridge that goes through San Diego-Coronado
A bombing in rebel controlled Atme, Idlib Governorate, near the Syria–Turkey border, kills at least 29 people, mostly rebel fighters, and injures dozens more.
Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016
The Turkish General Staff says between 160 and 200 have been killed, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports 11 dead and dozens of people wounded.
Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay states that the United States remains our "closest friend," but that the Philippines wants to break away and forge closer ties with other nations.
Donald Trump issues a statement calling the conversation "locker room banter" and writes, "I apologize if anyone was offended."
Russian and Syrian government attacks on rebel-held east Aleppo kill two people and injure 13 others. The Syrian American Medical Society reports the city's main trauma hospital closes. ,
A shooting in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, leaves two security officers dead.
monarchs and lifelong leaders who have reigned the longest in world history
German Chancellor Angela Merkel invites the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and France to meet tomorrow in Berlin to discuss peace efforts in eastern Ukraine. ,
A gunman, reportedly wearing an Afghan police uniform, kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens more in the Shiite Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on the beginning of Ashura.
Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2016
In Australian Rules football, the Western Bulldogs defeat the Sydney Swans to win their first premiership since 1954.
Clashes between Pygmy and Bantu tribes in Tanganyika region of Democratic Republic of Congo leave 20 people dead.
Datu Saudi-Ampatuan mayor Samsudin Dimaukom, publicly accused by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of involvement in the illegal drug trade, is killed, along with nine others, by Philippine police at a highway checkpoint in what police describe as an anti-drug operation.
Illegally stored explosives cause an explosion in a house in northwestern China that kills at least 14 people and injures 147 others in the town of Xinmin in Shaanxi province.
In a third day of fighting, an attack in Rakhine State kills four Myanmar soldiers.
Wendy Demchick-Alloy, a Montgomery County court judge in Norristown, sentences former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to serve 10 to 23 months in county jail for leaking confidential grand jury information and then lying about it to investigators. Specifically, she was convicted on August 15 on charges of perjury, false swearing, obstruction of justice, official oppression, and conspiracy.
British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts.
The Obama administration through the U.S. Defense Department says it will take appropriate action against those responsible for October 9 unsuccessful cruise missile attack, apparently fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen, upon the USS Mason.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2000 treaty with the United States on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium (Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement) (in Russian).
A fire breaks out in the ICU ward and Maternity ward of Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor, Malaysia, killing six patients and injured two others. All of the patients killed were dependent on ventilators in the ICU ward.
Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba claims responsibility for the attack on the Uri military camp in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
government healthcare programs by misclassifying its epinephrine autoinjector emergency allergy treatment.
Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda
Date: 16 July 2016 – ongoing (disputed) (6 years, 6 months and 4 days)
The bloc's 28 foreign ministers sought to show their anger at the Russian-backed campaign, which has killed several hundred people including dozens of children since the collapse of a truce brokered by Russia and the United States.
Turkish-backed rebels advance on the symbolic ISIL-controlled town of Dabiq, in northern Syria. ISIL believes Dabiq is the location where an apocalyptic battle will take place shortly before the end of the world.
The Atlanta Braves play their final game at Turner Field. They now move to the new SunTrust Park for the 2017 season.
Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Paul Beatty becomes the first American author to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout.
island in Klungkung Regency, Bali Province, Indonesia
international non-profit organization with HQ in Sweden which publishes secret information, by keeping sources anonymous
A bomb placed in an elevator shaft kills Pro-Russian, high-ranking officer of the Donetsk People's Republic's special forces, Arseny Pavlov, also known as "Motorola", in Donetsk.
Orbital ATK Antares 230 rocket launches carrying an unmanned resupply spacecraft, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 cargo ship, to the International Space Station from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
NASA announces the return of the final piece of data collected during New Horizons' flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The data, taking about five hours at light speed to travel across 5.5 billion kilometers (3.4 billion miles), arrived at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on the morning of October 25.
Authorities seek the fugitives with support from UN peacekeepers.
Date: 16 May 2014 – 23 October 2020 (6 years, 5 months and 1 week)
Raids by security forces on Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in Gazipur leave 11 militants dead. , ,
Following the June 23 Brexit vote, the exchange rate for the British pound reaches a 31-year low against the United States dollar.
Unknown assailants attack a refugee camp near the village of Tassalit, in Niger's Tahoua Region, killing at least 22 soldiers.
present phase of the Somali Civil War, concentrated in southern Somalia
Authorities find at least 28 migrants dead off the coast of Libya in a day of frantic rescues. [permanent dead link]
Marino Riccardi and Fabio Berardi take office as the Captains Regent of San Marino.
Hurricane Matthew kills at least 26 people on the island of Hispaniola; 22 in Haiti and four more in the Dominican Republic.
baseball or softball pitcher who relieves a previous pitcher
Ontario Provincial Police charge a former Canadian nurse, Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer, in Woodstock, Ontario, with killing eight elderly patients between August 2007 and August 2014 at two Caressant Care Nursing and Retirement Homes facilities.
head of state and of government of the U.S. state of Indiana
independent agency of the United States government
ISIL recaptures the western Iraqi town of Ar-Rutbah, which it previously withdrew from in May.
Surgeons separate craniopagus conjoined twin boys in New York City.
second largest island of the Philippines
American multinational banking and financial services company
A residential building collapses in the eastern China city of Wenzhou, leaving at least 22 people dead.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and EU officials sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
The 14th century Basilica of St. Benedict in the town of Norcia is destroyed.
Jordanian student pilot Feras Freitekh kills himself and attempts to kill his flight instructor, when their small Piper PA-34 Seneca airplane crashes in East Hartford Connecticut.
The collapse of a footbridge connecting the islands of Lembongan and Ceningan, near Bali, Indonesia, leaves 9 dead and 30 injured.
professor of physics at Princeton University
Gunmen attack a Pakistani police training academy in the southwestern city of Quetta, leaving at least 59 people dead and 117 others injured. ISIL - Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack. , , , ,
The journal Scientific Reports publishes research from a team, led by Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum's Stephen Poropat, reporting the discovery of a new Australian dinosaur species, Savannasaurus elliottorum, using fossils first found in 2005 at Winton, Queensland, Australia.
most populous city in the United States of America
A court sentences former Communist Party Secretary of Yunnan province, Bai Enpei, to death for corruption and amassing wealth of unclear origin.
conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
Houthi forces launch rockets that hit and reportedly destroy HSV-2 Swift, a military vessel belonging to the United Arab Emirates Navy, off the coast of Yemen, near the strategic Red Sea port of Mokha.
airport in Chicago, Illinois, United States
South Korean prosecutors raid the presidential Blue House in Seoul amid continuing fallout over President Park Geun-hye's influence-peddling scandal involving cult leader Choi Soon-sil.
President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency for Florida, freeing up federal money and personnel to protect lives and property.
The San Francisco Police Department halts a training program between itself and the Philippine National Police over allegations of civil rights violations committed under the guise of the Philippine Drug War.
Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he plans to cut ties with his country's former colonial ruler, the United States, while strengthening ties with China.
international agreement from 12 December 2015 within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020
Region of Vietnam (A part of North-South).
A stone quarry collapses in Hubei province, China, leaving five people missing.
bilateral relations between Belgium and Canada
emails from John Podesta's personal account published by WikiLeaks
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte tells U.S. President Barack Obama to "go to hell" after the United States refuses to sell some weapons to his country, while also acknowledging the cooperation of Russia and China.
Authorities evacuate London City Airport after a chemical incident, but, after some remediation, police later declare the airport safe.
Europe and North America, especially the Eastern United States
The European Union condemns Russia's air campaign in Syria, saying it may be guilty of war crimes, and it vowed to impose more sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's government. The bloc's 28 foreign ministers sought to show their anger at the Russian-backed campaign, which has killed several hundred people including dozens of children since the collapse of a truce brokered by Russia and the United States.
ISIL - Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.
campaign for the 2016 United States presidential election
capital and largest city of the United Kingdom
Nepalese poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
An ISIL sniper in Sirte, Libya, shoots dead Dutch photographer and war correspondent Jeroen Oerlemans.
An American Airlines Boeing 767 catches fire after an aborted takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Seven passengers and one flight attendant were injured, and taken to area hospitals.
The World Health Organization warns that the Zika virus will continue to spread across Asia with cases already reported in Singapore and Thailand.
A pickup truck hurls off San Diego, California's Coronado Bridge, plummets some 60 feet, and crashes onto a park where hundreds of people had gathered for a motorcycle rally, killing four people in a vendor's booth and injuring eight others.
province of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional social institutions and practices
The pound sterling sustains a flash crash, dropping from an exchange rate of $1.23 per pound to $1.13 in a few minutes of trading today, then gaining much of it back.
The Attorney General of Mexico issues an arrest warrant for the former Governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, for suspected involvement in organized crime and money laundering.
Kurt Eichenwald claims that Donald Trump and his businesses have been destroying documents, even in ongoing court cases and under subpoena, during the last decades.
Ghor Province Governor's spokesman claims ISIL insurgents killed 26-42 civilians in his governed province, Afghanistan.
specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture
Chaba leaves at least four people dead, and three others missing in South Korea.
electronic device that records video in a digital format to an electronic storage medium
bilateral relations between United States and Turkey
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For the first time in 25 years, the United States abstains in a United Nations vote calling for an end to its Cuban economic embargo.
island country in the Caribbean, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The charges carry a maximum penalty of six months in jail.
Turkish military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
The Spanish Parliament votes to allow Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to lead a People's Party minority government after a ten month interregnum.
Approximately 120 Opposition supporters also sustain injuries during the protests.
Hurricane Matthew, at Category 4 strength with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), temporarily stalls as it heads towards Jamaica and Haiti. Weather forecasters expect tropical storm conditions today with landfall tomorrow. Further, they expect rainfall of 20 inches, with up to 40 inches in some parts of southern Haiti. , ,
Hurricane Matthew, responsible for killing 13 people and knocking out power to 2.2 million households and businesses in the Southeastern United States, is now a Category 1 hurricane (75 mph;120 km/h winds) approaching the North Carolina coast. , ,
Typhoon Chaba heads for western Japan with the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu experiencing heavy rainfall.
rocket and spacecraft developed by Blue Origin
Iceland’s incumbent, centre-right Independence Party surprised pollsters by winning 29 percent of the vote (21 seats), thereby putting leader Bjarni Benediktsson in position to organize another coalition government. The Progressive Party, the current ruling partner, garnered 11.5% and eight positions, a loss of 11 seats. The new Pirate Party didn't perform as predicted with 14.5% of the ballots, though it did get 10 seats, an increase of seven more positions in the 63-seat parliament (Althing).
private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
The death toll from the October 21 crash of a Camrail train rises to at least 73 people with another 600 wounded. ,
Voters in Hungary go to the polls for a referendum on whether to accept mandatory European Union quotas on relocating migrants. While an overwhelming majority of voters reject the EU's migrant quotas, turnout was too low to make the poll valid. ,
Russia vetoes a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire in Aleppo. China, which had backed Russia's four previous Syria-related vetoes, abstains.
Russian President Vladimir Putin suspends the 2013 nuclear agreement with the United States concerning uranium research.
sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S.
November 2016 Haitian presidential election
Hurricane Matthew, responsible for killing 13 people and knocking out power to 2.2 million households and businesses in the Southeastern United States, is now a Category 1 hurricane (75 mph;120 km/h winds) approaching the North Carolina coast.
one of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
sovereign state in Southern Europe situated on an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
A bus crashes and catches fire carrying tourists returning from a China tour on the Gyeongbu Expressway near Ulsan, South Korea, leaving ten people killed and nine injured.
NASA's Juno probe, in orbit around Jupiter, enters safe mode.
Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism called autophagy in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components. ,
Computer security firm Symantec warns a second hacking group, going by the name Odinaff, is trying to rob banks using fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same approach that yielded U.S.$81 million in February's attack on Bangladesh's central bank.
fifth planet from the Sun and largest planet in the Solar System
United States Department of the Treasury
United States federal executive department
family of wireless network protocols, based on IEEE's 802.11 standards
A judge initially approved his extradition in March, and today his bid to launch an appeal against that decision was rejected, ending his 18-month legal fight.
Observers blame this development on algorithmic trading.
Administrative division of the Philippines
In golf, the United States wins the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008.
Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army rebels seize control of the symbolic town of Dabiq, Aleppo Governorate, following clashes with ISIL militants.
At least 13 people are killed and 20 others are missing following a gas explosion in a coal mine in western China's Chongqing region.
one of five prizes established by Alfred Nobel
A gunman shoots three police officers in Palm Springs, California, leaving two dead and one injured.
largest Christian church, led by the pope
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017
The Paris Agreement on climate change which governs greenhouse gas emissions will take effect in November.
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
In an appeals review, the International Tennis Federation states that tennis players will not be able to plead ignorance if they test positive for banned substances.
Hurricane Matthew, at Category 4 strength with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), temporarily stalls as it heads towards Jamaica and Haiti.
A bombing in rebel controlled Atme, Idlib Governorate, near the Syria–Turkey border, kills at least 29 people, mostly rebel fighters, and injures dozens more. ISIL claims responsibility. ,
Cyberthieves inject 5,925 online web retailers with website software malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers.
Negotiations between the Nigerian president's administration and Islamist militants free 21 of the 270 schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria (leaving 218 victims still unaccounted for).
The spill of sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid produces a toxic fog.
Two explosions in a park in the Japanese city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, kill at least one person and injure three others.
Voters in Moldova go to the polls for a presidential election. A run off election will be held on November 13 between Igor Dodon and Maia Sandu after no candidate achieved a majority of votes.
Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson in Seminole County, Florida, sentences Matthew Apperson, convicted by a jury last month of second-degree attempted murder, to 20 years in prison for shooting at George Zimmerman, who had shot and killed unarmed Trayvon Martin in February 2012.
legal declaration or de facto acts by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary powers
Brazilian voters cast ballots in the nationwide election of mayors and city councils in 5,568 municipalities. Pollsters predict that the Workers' Party will fair poorly. This is the country's first election since the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff. ,
Date: July 1, 2016 – present (6 years, 6 months and 19 days)
bilateral relations between India and Pakistan
Vietnam reports its first microcephaly case likely to be linked to the Zika virus.
city in northern Iraq and capital of Nineveh Province
2016 United Nations Secretary-General selection
selection for Secretary General of the United Nations
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans
In Australian rugby league, the Cronulla Sharks defeat the Melbourne Storm 14–12 to win their first premiership after 50 years in the competition.
44th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (2009-2017)
At an annual meeting of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Hobart, Australia, twenty-four countries and the European Union agree to create the world's largest marine park in Antarctica's Ross Sea. The marine park will cover more than 12 percent of the Southern Ocean, and will be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years.
The Obama administration agrees to an international limit on the use of hydrofluorocarbon gases in refrigeration and air conditioning.
Hurricane Nicole impacts Bermuda at Category 3 strength, making it the strongest hurricane to effect the British Overseas Territory since Hurricane Fabian in 2003. ,
island sovereign state off of Africa in the Indian Ocean
More than 15 civilians are reported killed and another 100 injured as Syria's Army of Conquest and other jihadist rebels launch an offensive to break the government-led siege on eastern Aleppo.
Major League Baseball names Cleveland reliever Andrew Miller the series Most Valuable Player.
Voters in Georgia go to the polls for a legislative election.
A twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner Mark III light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Malta International Airport, killing all five French nationals on board.
An altercation with a fellow UKIP MEP inside the European Parliament leaves UK Independence Party, Member of the European Parliament, and current UKIP party leadership favorite Steven Woolfe hospitalized.
cabinet-level department of the United States government
United Nations Security Council resolution
UN resolution adopted by the fifteen members of the Security Council
Iceland’s incumbent, centre-right Independence Party surprised pollsters by winning 29 percent of the vote (21 seats), thereby putting leader Bjarni Benediktsson in position to organize another coalition government.
Date: 18 September 2016 5:30 a.m. (IST)
2016 mass protests and unrest in Ethiopia
The pound sterling sustains a flash crash, dropping from an exchange rate of $1.23 per pound to $1.13 in a few minutes of trading today, then gaining much of it back. Observers blame this development on algorithmic trading.
UNESCO declares the Western Wall an "Islamic site" and refrains from mentioning its connection to Jewish culture. Over half the voting countries chose to abstain.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet for the third presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. election at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
2016 American League Championship Series
47th edition of Major League Baseball's American League Championship Series
2015–2016 wave of violence in Israeli–Palestinian conflict
ongoing civil war in the country of Yemen
The European Space Agency-Roscosmos operated Schiaparelli EDM lander successfully separates from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, beginning a three-day descent to the surface of Mars.
October–November 2016 UK Independence Party leadership election
United Kingdom independence party (UKIP) leadership election
citizens or residents of The Netherlands
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rockfall inside the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel causes an indefinite closure of the tunnel, closing the only road access to and from Whittier, Alaska, and halting freight train service between Whittier and interior Alaska.
Further, they expect rainfall of 20 inches, with up to 40 inches in some parts of southern Haiti.
Indian police kill at least 24 Maoist rebels during a raid in eastern Orissa State.
Suzanne Evans, former UK Independence Party (UKIP) deputy chairman, and Paul Nuttall, President of the Initiative for Direct Democracy in Europe and Member of the European Parliament, each announce their candidacy for the UKIP leadership position, now held on interim basis by Nigel Farage.
The new ministers still need the parliament's approval.
The United Nations launches an emergency appeal for almost U.S.$120 million in life-saving help for 750,000 survivors in Haiti at risk of starvation and/or cholera.
The Dubai based Abraaj Group agreed to sell its majority shares in K-Electric to China’s state-backed Shanghai Electric Power Company with a transaction of US $ 1.77 billion.
and Samsung concerning both company's smart phone designs (Samsung Electronics v.
series of protests in Venezuela beginning in 2014
A bomb kills one person and leaves two injured in Kabul.
medical device used for the administration of insulin
Proposed second Scottish independence referendum
The Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság shuts down after 60 years amid significant financial losses.
grand final of the 2016 Australian Football League season
The death toll is at least 140 people with 136 in Haiti.
Typhoon Sarika (Karen) arrives at Luzon, Philippines, with the storm's future direction predicted to be toward Vietnam.
South Africa will notify the United Nations that the country is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC). This separation would take effect one year from when notice is formally received by the U.N. Secretary-General. Last week, Burundi's parliament voted to leave the ICC, but the required paperwork has not yet reached the U.N.
launch vehicle produced by Orbital Sciences Corporation from the United States
American worldwide online payments system
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
An Israeli Air Force F-16 crashes while attempting to land at Ramon Airbase in southern Israel, killing the pilot. A navigator who was also in the aircraft successfully ejects and escapes the incident unharmed.
flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station on commercially operated spacecraft
The U.S. Transportation Department's emergency order banning Samsung Galaxy Note 7 from aircraft in the United States goes into effect.
collection of compromised internet-connected devices controlled by a third party
proposed Internet-like structure connecting everyday physical objects
Polish film director and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award Andrzej Wajda dies at the age of 90.
A suspected PKK car bomb kills at least 17 people, and injures 27 others in Turkey's southeast Hakkâri Province.
Hurricane Matthew makes landfall near the eastern tip of Cuba.
event in which aircraft are used to attack targets on land or at sea
Czech police announce the arrest of a man at a Prague hotel two weeks ago who they claim is a Russian hacker suspected of targeting the U.S.
The United States orders all civilian staff family members to leave its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, due to increasing threats from terrorist organizations.
Typhoon Chaba, now a super typhoon with winds of 145 knots (165 mph), heads for Japan's southern islands with storm warnings of torrential rain followed by mudslides and flooding. ,
Samsung recalls and suspends production of its reformulated-version of Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to the same persistent problem with battery fires and explosions.
tenth day of the month of Muharram in islamic calendar
head of government of the United Kingdom
flight involved in an incident on 8 March 2014
The Taliban launches an offensive entering the city of Kunduz which they briefly captured last year.
Egyptian government airstrikes on jihadist targets in North Sinai Governorate, leave at least 100 terrorists killed and 40 others wounded.
Chief Administrative Officer; Head of the UN Secretariat
A suicide bombing kills at least 14 people, mostly police officers, in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, as Taliban insurgents advance upon the Afghan city.
field of applied science whose theme is the control of matter on atomic and (supra)molecular scale
Saudi-led coalition jets launch airstrikes on civilians at the funeral of the father of the Houthi government's Interior Minister in Sana'a, killing at least 140 people, and injuring over 500 more. One of the dead is the mayor of Sana'a, Abdul-Qader Hilal. , ,
bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States
any attempt to expose, alter, disable, destroy, steal or gain unauthorized access to or make unauthorized use of a computer system
characteristics distinguishing between femininity and masculinity
place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate etc. has been excavated from the ground
A suspected ISIL attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, leaves at least 12 Egyptian military personnel and 15 terrorists dead.
chemical element with symbol Cu and atomic number 29
Referendum voters in Colombia narrowly fail to ratify a peace deal between the Government of Colombia and FARC. , ,
A bomb placed in an elevator shaft kills Pro-Russian, high-ranking officer of the Donetsk People's Republic's special forces, Arseny Pavlov, also known as "Motorola", in Donetsk. ,
The journal JAMA Neurology publishes findings from the Medical Research Council of a simple urine test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (known as the human variant of mad cow disease), which is caused by deposits of prions. The current testing protocol is to obtain a sample of cerebrospinal fluid or brain tissue, or wait for a post-mortem after death. ,
Gambia says it will join South Africa and Burundi in withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, accusing the court of ignoring "Western war crimes" like the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
After authorities in Chemnitz, Germany, uncover a suspected terrorist bombing plot, police seek the suspect.
112th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series
With about 25 percent of the votes counted, the Independence Party is receiving about 30 percent of the ballots cast. The Pirate Party, which led in most of this month's polls, is getting about 13 percent.
The Italian coast guard rescues more than 5,600 migrants, in one of the biggest operations in a single day.
President Barack Obama issues an executive order on Cuba lifting monetary limits on the amount of Cuban products, including cigars and rum, which Americans can bring back for personal use, allowing Cubans and Americans to engage in joint medical research, and allowing Cubans to buy certain U.S. consumer goods online. , ,
second smallest of the five main islands of Japan
A man driving the wrong way on Interstate 89 in Williston, Vermont, kills five people, all local high school juniors. ,
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scotsman Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Dutchman Ben Feringa win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into nanotechnology.
designated city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
United States presidential election debates, 2016
The New York City Metropolitan Opera cancels its Saturday performances as a man, during an afternoon intermission, sprinkled an unidentified powder, suspected to be cremated ashes, into the orchestra pit.
American lawyer and politician (born 1958)
2014–2016 Lebanese presidential election
Date: 5 February 2011 – present (11 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi rejects Turkey's claim that Turkish forces must be included in an operation to retake the militant-held city of Mosul.
The attack was carried out by a Palestinian gunman who opened fire from a vehicle on people waiting at a train station and then the nearby police headquarters in Jerusalem.
American conservative undercover video producer James O'Keefe releases a series of videos allegedly showing conversations with, among others, Scott Foval, the former national field director of Americans United for Change, speaking about his hiring of people to sabotage rallies for Donald Trump by staging fights in them in a process Foval called "bird dogging".
country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a patent dispute between Apple Inc. and Samsung concerning both company's smart phone designs (Samsung Electronics v. Apple (15-777)).
The death toll in North Carolina rises to 22 as flood waters continue to rise. Governor Pat McCrory says places that had a foot of water in the morning, were under 12 feet of water.
Over 1,500 supporters of opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf are arrested ahead of a planned protest in the capital Islamabad against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Google introduces a so-called "fact checking" feature on its news aggregate service to combat alleged political bias.
baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, USA; home venue of the Chicago Cubs
Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman. The Category 4 storm, with 140 mph ((220 km/h) maximum sustained winds), is heading towards western Haiti, eastern Cuba, and the southeastern and central Bahamas. ,
former American multinational media conglomerate
The Court of Arbitration for Sport reduces Maria Sharapova's two-year ban to 15 months.
The European Space Agency fails to contact its Schiaparelli lander during its descent through the atmosphere of the planet Mars.
The Vice President of Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, survives yet another assassination attempt.
Pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson warns that one of its Wi-Fi enabled insulin pumps for diabetics (OneTouch Ping pump) is at risk of being hacked, causing an overdose.
System of classifying tropical cyclones into five categories based on measured wind speed and used to estimate potential damage
Democratic National Committee cyber attacks
unit of digital information equal to 8 bits
aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces
President Barack Obama issues an executive order on Cuba lifting monetary limits on the amount of Cuban products, including cigars and rum, which Americans can bring back for personal use, allowing Cubans and Americans to engage in joint medical research, and allowing Cubans to buy certain U.S. consumer goods online.
Turkish security forces raid the headquarters of IMC TV in Istanbul, cutting its transmissions while it was live on air, for allegedly broadcasting "terror propaganda".
The storm has killed at least nine people in the Caribbean.
Wendy Demchick-Alloy, a Montgomery County court judge in Norristown, sentences former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to serve 10 to 23 months in county jail for leaking confidential grand jury information and then lying about it to investigators.
Anthony Foley, coach of Irish rugby union team Munster, dies suddenly at the age of 42 in a hotel near Paris.
The Catholic Church announces that cremated remains must be kept in consecrated land, rather than scattered about or kept at home.
journalist specializing in coverage of armed conflicts
2016 United States presidential election
directly elected parliament of the European Union
China launches Shenzhou 11, the country's sixth manned spaceflight mission and the first one to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory, with two taikonauts on a 30-day mission. ,
Per Wästberg, a member of the Swedish Academy, says that songwriter and artist Bob Dylan has not yet indicated whether he intends to accept the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. ,
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executes at least 284 people in Mosul. ,
Expectant parents wanting male children smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing.
Swedish streaming service of music and podcasts
Djukanovic says he will seek a coalition with parties of national minorities.
Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
border guard branch of the Federal Security Service of Russia
political-religious armed movement in Yemen
leader of the executive branch of the government of Pakistan
Representatives in the Trump and Clinton campaigns call for Comey to reveal more information about this new investigation.
most extreme form of malnutrition, a consequence of prolonged insufficiency of food
UFC 204 happened in Manchester, England. Michael Bisping defeated Dan Henderson in the main event to retain his middleweight championship.
The Tennessee Valley Authority completes the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, the first U.S.
city and county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States and the largest city in the state
American popstar Janet Jackson announces that she is pregnant with her first child at the age of 50.
A car bomb at a Mogadishu restaurant near the Jilaow detention center kills four people and injures another five. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack. ,
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
capital city of the Al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria Founder ottoman empair
type of business industry usually conducted over the Internet
1974 multi-role fighter aircraft family by General Dynamics
Brazilian prosecutors file homicide charges against 21 people employed by the companies Samarco, Vale, and BHP Billiton for the November 2015 iron ore mine dam burst in the state of Minas Gerais that killed 19 people and polluted waterways.
Jordanian student pilot Feras Freitekh kills himself and attempts to kill his flight instructor, when their small Piper PA-34 Seneca airplane crashes in East Hartford Connecticut. Investigators conclude the crash was an intentional act motivated by suicide based on the surviving instructor who said there was an argument and struggle for control. The FBI investigates. Reuters
major bank in the People's Republic of China
low-intensity asymmetric war, beginning in 1964, between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates and far-left guerrillas (FARC, ELN, etc.)
(The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System)
Orbital ATK Antares 230 rocket launches carrying an unmanned resupply spacecraft, the Cygnus CRS OA-5 cargo ship, to the International Space Station from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The mission returns the Antares rocket to flight after an anomaly on October 28, 2014, caused an Antares-series rocket to explode seconds after liftoff. ,
Date: 31 January 2009 – present (13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
All of the patients killed were dependent on ventilators in the ICU ward.
Irish rugby union footballer and coach (1973-2016)
multinational diversified metals and mining corporation
activity to defend against or prevent terrorist actions
Other confirmed candidates are Bill Etheridge, Raheem Kassam, and Peter Whittle.
Turkey dismisses another 10,000 civil servants and closes 15 more media outlets for alleged ties to terrorist organizations and cleric Fethullah Gülen.
crime of stealing a car from a victim by force
agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in genus nicotiana
Public General Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
The United States Navy's USS Mason is fired on for the third time in a week from territory controlled by Houthi forces in Yemen, while in international waters of the Red Sea.
Irving Picard, a court-appointed trustee liquidating the Madoff asset management firm, says that he has reached a settlement with the family of the late Stanley Chais, in connection with monies that had been funneled from California investors, through Chais, into Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
Two buses collide near the city of Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and injuring 69 others.
malware that turns computer systems running Linux into remotely controlled "bots"
The U.S. State Department orders family members of employees at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul to leave as extremist groups threaten to kill or kidnap U.S.
global international and intergovernmental organization
Following his October 5 arrest, U.S. federal prosecutors in Baltimore charge Harold T.
conflict initiated by Rodrigo Duterte against drug lords and drug pushers
sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
conflict, starting 23 February 2011, ignited by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula
Hungarian migrant quota referendum, 2016
American aerospace developer and manufacturer
any material that stores energy that can later be extracted, in presence of a oxidizer or a catalyser, or under the effect of a tool, but which is not conserved after the reaction
European organisation dedicated to space exploration
Date: 16 October 2016 – 20 July 2017 (9 months and 4 days)
Weather forecasters track Hurricane Matthew as it makes landfall in Haiti and issue hurricane warnings for Cuba and the Bahamas.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs in Central Italy 68 kilometres east southeast of Perugia. Many buildings are reported as having been destroyed. ,
The Cleveland Indians defeat the Toronto Blue Jays and win the American League Championship Series 4–1, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1997. Major League Baseball names Cleveland reliever Andrew Miller the series Most Valuable Player.
(The International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center)
prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China
process of verifying information in non-fictional text in order to determine its veracity and factual correctness
FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño (Timoleón) says his troops will honor its commitments to the Colombian government, including the permanent cease-fire, despite voters rejection of the peace accord in Sunday's referendum. President Juan Manuel Santos calls the country's political parties to an emergency meeting.
The government of Curaçao Prime Minister Ben Whiteman resigns ahead of the Curaçao general election on October 5.
Seven members of the militia who occupied the wildlife refuge, including the leader Ammon Bundy, was acquitted of all federal charges related to the takeover.
nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of Russian Federation
group of metabolic disorders characterized by high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period
British American Tobacco offers to buy out U.S. cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc in a $47 billion takeover that would create the world's biggest listed tobacco company.
Mylan pays US$465 million to settle its underpayment to U.S. government healthcare programs by misclassifying its epinephrine autoinjector emergency allergy treatment.
This ends the deadlock on CETA, though the revised text must again be approved by the other 27 EU member states.
team-based golf competition between European and American professionals
head of state and of government of the U.S. state of South Carolina
Police kill eight Students Islamic Movement of India members after their prison escape in Bhopal, India.
Volkswagen agrees to pay $175 million to United States lawyers suing the German automaker on behalf of the owners of 475,000 polluting vehicles.
North American professional baseball league
Five people are killed and several other civilians injured as armed terrorists, targeting Shia Muslims, open fire on participants of a Majlis at a home in the Nazimabad district of Karachi, Pakistan.
A fire destroys the historic Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, Devon, which is described as the oldest hotel in England.
maritime warfare branch of Russia's military
system to identify resources on a network
A wildlife sanctuary for rescued elephants opens in Brazil.
Weather forecasters issue hurricane warnings for eastern Cuba, from Las Tunas to Guantánamo provinces. ,
voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round
country in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa
American multinational technology company
One person is killed and at least five others injured following an explosion and fire along one of Colonial Pipeline's conduits in rural Alabama (US), the second incident on this section of the line in less than two months. One pipeline reopened this evening while a second is expected to working by Saturday.
Pakistan's government removes a loophole allowing those behind so-called honor killings to go free with the new legislation instead requiring a mandatory life sentence.
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Hurricane Matthew moves towards the United States with hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated from the states of Florida and South Carolina.
family of ethnolinguistic groups in Africa
The Simpsons, the longest-running American, prime time, scripted television series, airs its 600th episode.
Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov
Russian heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers and win the National League Championship Series 4–2, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1945. ,
2016 Colombian peace agreement referendum
population control policy which was used by the People's Republic of China
territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom
crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to property
A suspected female suicide bomber kills at least 20 people at a Kurdish wedding in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah.
The U.S. firm Concentrix, which is used by the British government to cut tax credit payments, suffers a data protection breach where some claimants have had their personal information such as bank statements, self assessment details, and National Insurance numbers sent to other claimants.
A natural gas explosion damages several buildings and injures eight people in downtown Portland, Oregon.
Pope Francis announces the upcoming creation of 17 new Cardinals; 13 of them will be under the age of 80 and thus able to vote in a future papal conclave to select the new Pope.
environmental protocol designed to protect the ozone layer
process of moving heat from one location to another in controlled conditions
James Comey informs Congress that "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation." He says the FBI has not yet assessed the importance or significance of these emails.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hold the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in a "town meeting" format.
capital and most populous city of France
United States trillion-dollar stock market crash that lasted for 36 minutes
international development strategy and framework proposed by China
After two years on the run, Mexican officials arrest the former police chief of a Mexican city, Felipe Flores, capturing him in Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero. The city is where 43 students disappeared in September 2014. The police arrested the students and then handed them over to a drug cartel who killed them and incinerated their bodies.
The U.S. military launches Tomahawk cruise missiles from the USS Nitze against Houthi-controlled radar sites in Yemen following two incidents in which, according to U.S. military, missiles were fired on United States Navy vessels in the Red Sea. ,
Malta officials say that the aircraft was part of a French customs surveillance operation tracing routes of illicit trafficking, of humans and drugs on Libyan coasts, and that the flight was heading for the Libyan city of Misrata.
The Maldives leaves the Commonwealth of Nations after 34 years, claiming that it has been "unfairly and unjustly" treated by the intergovernmental organization.
easternmost coast of the United States, located near the North Atlantic Ocean
fraud on emissions tests using a defeat device from 2009 to 2015 by Volkswagen
Croatian lawmakers approve conservative Croatian Democratic Union party leader Andrej Plenković's new coalition government 91–45. ,
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Los Angeles, California, United States
sale and distribution of illegal narcotics in the Philippines
Bass Pro Shops acquires Cabela's for $5.5 billion, combining two retailers for outdoor enthusiasts.
The United Nations General Assembly officially appoints former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres its next Secretary-General. ,
The four-day death toll from fighting in Rakhine State stands at 39, including 13 army and police personnel.
city in and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States
Belgian politicians, including those from the dissident Wallonia region, agree on Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement language that addresses Walloon concerns. This ends the deadlock on CETA, though the revised text must again be approved by the other 27 EU member states.
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco approves German automaker Volkswagen $14.7 billion settlement with federal and California regulators and the owners of the 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles over diesel emissions cheating scandal.
2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects the Russian military’s request to resume airstrikes in eastern Aleppo, instead letting the humanitarian pause continue.
A bridge in Haiti connecting Port-au-Prince with southern Haiti collapses.
A video shows U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump having a lewd conversation about women in 2005.
public health emergency of international concern
The United States and the United Kingdom call for, "within hours," an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen to end the violence following last week's Saudi airstrikes, based on bad information, that killed around 140 people. ,
Two explosions in a park in the Japanese city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, kill at least one person and injure three others. Local media report that a 72-year-old ex-military officer is responsible for the blasts. A fire the same day destroyed the suspect's house. ,
Authorities arrest a Japanese man for killing as many as 48 elderly patients at the Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama.
The death toll in Vietnam, from Typhoon Sarika, rises to at least 31 people.
Nuclear power plant in Rhea County, Tennessee
person who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller, and gets a commission when the deal is executed
An al-Shabaab attack on a village near the Kenyan town of Mandera results in six deaths.
diplomatic relations between the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the United States of America
country in Central and Southeastern Europe
Russian border patrol officers open fire on a North Korean fishing vessel, leaving one fisherman dead, and eight others injured.
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System
Oromia Region, Addis Ababa north-western, southern and eastern part of the regions Ambo, Dembi Dolo, and NekemteAmhara Region, Gondar, Bahir Dar,
Prime Minister Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, leader of the Progressive Party, resigns.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City reports that an unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, shot dead on September 16, by a white police officer, Betty Jo Shelby, had acute PCP intoxication.
capital and largest city of the Czech Republic
Authorities charged her with first-degree manslaughter.
county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
The Obama administration through the U.S. Department of Justice announces that they will file criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating a judge's order to stop immigration patrols that led to a court finding of racial profiling. The charges carry a maximum penalty of six months in jail. ,
For the land in Jerusalem where the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands, the board uses only Islamic naming terms without also mentioning Jewish or Christian historical references.
An arsonist firebombs a Republican Party office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and leaves a graffiti message reading, "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else."
British scientists, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and John M. Kosterlitz, are awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter". ,
India and Pakistan each expel a diplomat from the other country as tensions grow over Kashmir.
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
firm Concentrix, which is used by the British government to cut tax credit payments, suffers a data protection breach where some claimants have had their personal information such as bank statements, self assessment details, and National Insurance numbers sent to other claimants.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley urges 1.1 million coastal residents to evacuate before Matthew hits this weekend.
British author, politician, and journalist
Somali police say at least seven are dead after clashes as Somali and African Union troops pushed back al-Shabab extremists from Afgooye, a town near Mogadishu.
Per Section 24 of the Constitution, Thailand formally confirms as the Regent pro tempore Prem Tinsulanonda, the President of the Privy Council and the former confidant of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. ,
The House of Keys elects Howard Quayle Chief Minister of the Isle of Man with a majority of 21 votes
city in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan
Russia withdraws a request to refuel three of its warships, including the flagship of the Russian Navy, Admiral Kuznetsov, en route to Syria, at the Spanish port of Ceuta following NATO pressure on the Spanish government to not allow the warships to dock.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of the Battle of Mosul, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, to retake ISIL-held Mosul, the self-declared caliphate's capital in Iraq.
Law enforcement officials say the emails in question were found during the course of an investigation into illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, on electronic devices formerly shared by Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin.
official mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
layer of gases surrounding a material body
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco approves German automaker Volkswagen $14.7 billion settlement with federal and California regulators and the owners of the 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles over diesel emissions cheating scandal. Volkswagen still faces billions of dollars more in fines and litigation.
Judge Vivien Rose of London's High Court, finds in favor of Goldman Sachs, that the bank is not liable for the failure of highly speculative trades made by the sovereign wealth fund of Libya.
Western neologism to describe armed Islamic movements
U.S. discount brokerage TD Ameritrade agrees to buy Scottrade for $2.7 billion.
Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Harney County, Oregon (30 mi (48 km) south of Burns, Oregon)
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet for the third presidential debate of the 2016 U.S.
Seven passengers and one flight attendant were injured, and taken to area hospitals.
Former Agricultural Bank of China chief executive Jiang Chaoliang is appointed Communist Party Secretary of Hubei province, filling the vacancy left by Li Hongzhong.
A series of earthquakes strikes a region of Central Italy already impacted by a major quake in August. Many buildings are damaged or destroyed across several towns.
A London-based trader who traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Navinder Singh Sarao, accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" by placing bogus orders to spoof the market, fails in his legal bid to stop extradition and will now be sent to the United States to face trial where he is wanted by U.S. authorities on 22 criminal counts of wire fraud, commodities fraud, and market manipulation. A judge initially approved his extradition in March, and today his bid to launch an appeal against that decision was rejected, ending his 18-month legal fight. He will now be extradited within 28 days.
A United States Air Force drone strike kills a senior leader in the Syrian militant group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, Egyptian-born Abu al-Faraj al-Masri, in Jisr al-Shughur, Idlib Governorate.
It is the Cubs' first-ever win of a World Series game at the stadium since October 1945.
Voters in Lithuania vote to elect representatives for the 141-seat parliament.
German prosecutors drop a case against comedian Jan Böhmermann, who had been indicted for a satirical poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
A gunman, reportedly wearing an Afghan police uniform, kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens more in the Shiite Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on the beginning of Ashura. Police kill the attacker. ,
A series of explosions in an apartment building in Harbin, China, kills at least three people and injures dozens more.
republic with separation of powers into executive, judicial and legislative branches
British scientists, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and John M. Kosterlitz, are awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
A car bomb at a Mogadishu restaurant near the Jilaow detention center kills four people and injures another five.
Aftermath of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum
American outdoor recreational equipment retail chain
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of the Battle of Mosul, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, to retake ISIL-held Mosul, the self-declared caliphate's capital in Iraq. ,
maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces
Diane James resigns as the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party after just 18 days in charge.
The Obama administration through the U.S. State Department announces the suspension of bilateral talks with Russia about the cessation of hostilities in Syria, as Russia and the Syrian government continue to pursue a military course despite the ceasefire accord. ,
A motorcycle bomb in the Yenibosna neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, injures 10 civilians.
attorney general for the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Turkish jets hit Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia with 26 airstrikes in three recently-captured-from-ISIL villages west of al-Bab and northeast of Aleppo.
Saudi Arabia accepts the finding of the Joint Incidents Assessment Team, a setup of coalition states to investigate complaints against coalitions conduct in Decisive Storm, that the October 8 coalition’s bombardment at a funeral ceremony in Sana'a, in which over 140 people were killed and more than 600 injured, was based on wrong information.
The U.S. State Department orders family members of employees at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul to leave as extremist groups threaten to kill or kidnap U.S. citizens and Westerners.
federal crimes in the United States that involve mailing or electronically transmitting something associated with fraud
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Tottori Prefecture in western Japan. Local media report that there are 14 injuries in Kurayoshi. Tottori is Japan's least populous prefecture. ,
business which sells, buys, and trades new and/or used cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans
overview about the applications of nanotechnology
France seeks United States and Russian support for a Security Council resolution to impose a new truce that will allow aid into Aleppo, which has experienced two weeks of heavy Syrian and Russian bombing of rebel-held areas.
Thailand declares today a government holiday for mourning King Bhumibol Adulyadej's death.
human settlement in Georgia, United States
United States Republican Party vice presidential candidate Mike Pence's campaign plane skids off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with no injuries reported. The runway is said to have sustained damage causing the closure of the airport; a planned fundraiser was also canceled.
UFC 204 happened in Manchester, England.
American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
head of state and of government of the Republic of Korea
A stampede among Hindu pilgrims headed to Varanasi, India, kills at least 24 people and injures at least 20. ,
Haima, downgraded by the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System to a Category 4 storm, landfalls Cagayan province in the island's northeast.
bridge designed for pedestrians and in some cases cyclists, animal traffic and horse riders, rather than vehicular traffic
Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)
At least 174 inmates escape in Arcahaie, Haiti, leaving one guard dead. Authorities seek the fugitives with support from UN peacekeepers.
Date: 1st: 21 December 2015 – 26 April 2016 2nd: 27 June – 29 October 2016
global system of connected computer networks based on IP addressing and routing protocols
exclave of Russia sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania
Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
Houthi forces launch rockets that hit and reportedly destroy HSV-2 Swift, a military vessel belonging to the United Arab Emirates Navy, off the coast of Yemen, near the strategic Red Sea port of Mokha. ,
province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
military forces of the Russian Federation
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, the world's longest reigning monarch, is in unstable condition after a hemodialysis treatment.
Spanish politician, prime Minister of Spain between 2011 and 2018
Kurt Eichenwald claims that Donald Trump and his businesses have been destroying documents, even in ongoing court cases and under subpoena, during the last decades. ,
Colombian peace agreement referendum, 2016
fungible item produced to satisfy wants or needs
one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
A fire breaks out at a hospital in the East Indian city of Bhubaneswar, Odisha, killing at least 20 people.
5th First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party
sovereign state situated on an island in the Caribbean Sea
air service branch of the United States Armed Forces
authorities on 22 criminal counts of wire fraud, commodities fraud, and market manipulation.
President Juan Manuel Santos calls the country's political parties to an emergency meeting.
Michel Aoun is elected President of Lebanon following 29 months of parliamentary deadlock to fill the position.
Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
aerial warfare branch of Syria's armed forces
the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform
television content transmitted via signals on coaxial cable
A military operation in North Sinai Governorate left 4 soldiers and 6 insurgents dead.
kidnapping of female students in Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria
municipal police department in San Francisco, California
group of ethnicities native to Central Africa
constitutional monarchy and monarch of the Kingdom of Thailand
Suzanne Evans, former UK Independence Party (UKIP) deputy chairman, and Paul Nuttall, President of the Initiative for Direct Democracy in Europe and Member of the European Parliament, each announce their candidacy for the UKIP leadership position, now held on interim basis by Nigel Farage. Other confirmed candidates are Bill Etheridge, Raheem Kassam, and Peter Whittle.
Syrian child refugees previously settled in the Calais jungle legally immigrate into England.
disputed territory between China, India and Pakistan
Turkish authorities detain 55 military and intelligence agency personnel over suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen.
An Afghan Armed Forces Mi-17 helicopter crashes in northern Afghanistan with all seven people onboard, four crewmen and three passengers, dying.
continent on Earth, mainly on the Earth's northeastern quadrant
Mexico's Volcán de Colima erupts forcing the evacuation of two nearby villages.
The U.S. Supreme Court declines to rehear President Barack Obama's 2014 plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4–4 in June. The justices' June 23 decision (United States v. Texas) is final.
The United Nations and Nigeria come to an agreement to release 876 children being held due to suspicions that they are tied to Boko Haram.
Technology experts warn that the security included with IoT is weak, or sometimes even nonexistent.
small roll of cut tobacco designed to be smoked
ISIL believes Dabiq is the location where an apocalyptic battle will take place shortly before the end of the world.
The United States Navy's destroyer USS Mason comes under missile attack in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen.
Two bombs explode on a train near the town of Machh, Pakistan, killing at least six people with nineteen more injured.
Voters in Curaçao go to the polls to elect the 21 members of the Estates of Curaçao. The election had been delayed from September 30 due to Hurricane Matthew.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin sign several agreements including a $12.9 billion defense and energy deal. Russian state oil major Rosneft pays for a controlling stake in both India's Essar Oil and port facilities that it already owns.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel official report that Russian jets have resumed heavy bombing, and, in total, have now killed at least 50 civilians in villages surrounding rebel-held eastern Aleppo. ,
astrobiology project to investigate the past habitability environment of Mars
Iraqi politician and Prime Minister of Iraq
tropical sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located east of Central America, south of the Greater Antilles and north of South America
Dublin defeats Mayo in the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, retaining the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time since 1977.
Over half the voting countries chose to abstain.
autonomous city of Spain in North Africa
Volkswagen agrees to pay its U.S. dealers up to US$1.2 billion to compensate them for their losses resulting from the company's emissions cheating scandal.
government formation process in Spain following the 2015 general election
Local media report that a 72-year-old ex-military officer is responsible for the blasts.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announces March 2017 as the deadline for triggering Article 50 and says that her government will introduce a "Great Repeal Bill" that will repeal the European Communities Act 1972 once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.
The ship deployed countermeasures and was not struck, according to U.S.
UNESCO's executive board approves the "Occupied Palestine" resolution which reaffirms the cultural heritage of Palestine, especially East Jerusalem, and criticizes certain Israeli actions regarding the Palestinian territories. For the land in Jerusalem where the Al-Aqsa Mosque stands, the board uses only Islamic naming terms without also mentioning Jewish or Christian historical references. , ,
American content platform and production company
Anthony Foley, coach of Irish rugby union team Munster, dies suddenly at the age of 42 in a hotel near Paris. Officials postpone Munster's European Rugby Champions Cup match against Racing 92.
formally combined military forces of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan from 1997–2001
The new Pirate Party didn't perform as predicted with 14.5% of the ballots, though it did get 10 seats, an increase of seven more positions in the 63-seat parliament (Althing).
capital city of New South Wales, Australia
peace negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC (2012-16)
preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age
Authorities confirm that a wing part found in Mauritius in May is part of the aircraft from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
Premiere show of the play Yanjaseni by Suman Pokhrel in Irving Arts Center in Dallas in Texas, United States
Authorities find at least 28 migrants dead off the coast of Libya in a day of frantic rescues.
legal representative of the state in criminal trials
naval warfare branch of the United Arab Emirates' military
Police in China detain 75 people in connection with a service that determined the female gender of unborn babies for the purpose of abortion. Authorities say that at least 300 people were involved in the illegal service in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. Expectant parents wanting male children smuggled fetal blood samples to Hong Kong for gender testing. China ended its one-child policy last year.
United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2016
The United States Navy's destroyer USS Mason comes under missile attack in the Red Sea, off the coast of Yemen. The two missiles, fired from Yemeni territory controlled by Iranian-backed Houthis, impacted the water well before reaching the ship, according to Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis.
Clashes between government troops and rebels in South Sudan, leave at least 56 people killed. ,
system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects
American online platform for rental accommodations
The UN reports 232 civilians have been murdered in and near Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
A passenger train derails in central Cameroon, killing at least 53 people and injuring 575 others.
An al-Shabaab attack on a village near the Kenyan town of Mandera results in six deaths. ,
islamic terror organisation in Bangladesh
election at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
A plane crash near Kelowna, BC, kills Canadian politician and former Premier of Alberta Jim Prentice along with three others.
troops providing counterterrorism assistance on the southern island of Mindanao to leave as President Rodrigo Duterte requested.
seventh cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station
The Socialist Workers' Party, following the party's 139–96 vote approving this action, say they will abstain from voting against acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy when he puts his People's Party coalition government to parliament this week, thereby ending the 10-month deadlock. ,
The two missiles, fired from Yemeni territory controlled by Iranian-backed Houthis, impacted the water well before reaching the ship, according to Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis.
The election had been delayed from September 30 due to Hurricane Matthew.
large cyberattack that affected Europe and North America in 2016
Aftermath of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
The eye of the hurricane moves over the western end of Grand Bahama, the northernmost island in The Bahama Archipelago.
Matthew's death toll in Haiti rises to at least one thousand, with victims being buried in mass graves. An unknown number of people remain missing and authorities report that cholera is spreading in the hardest hit-areas in the country's southwest.
ethnic group in Ethiopia, with several subcategories
American political controversy surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton's conduct while Secretary of State
brand of tequila that was founded in 1795 by Don Jose Antonio de Cuervo
countries with an originally European shared culture
radioactive chemical element with the atomic number of 94 and symbol Pu
dealers up to US$1.2 billion to compensate them for their losses resulting from the company's emissions cheating scandal.
The journal JAMA Neurology publishes findings from the Medical Research Council of a simple urine test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (known as the human variant of mad cow disease), which is caused by deposits of prions.
share index of the London Stock Exchange
news aggregator and app developed by Google
county seat of Dallas County, Texas, United States
Astronomers announce that 2014 UZ224 is the third most distant Solar System object known from our Sun, currently over 90 times the Earth's distance from the Sun (90.8 AU or 8.44 billion miles), after Eris (96.2 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU).
very rapid, deep, and volatile fall in security prices occurring within an very short time period
Kurdish nationalist and separatist armed organization
The Socialist Workers' Party, following the party's 139–96 vote approving this action, say they will abstain from voting against acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy when he puts his People's Party coalition government to parliament this week, thereby ending the 10-month deadlock.
An unknown gunman shoots a Venezuelan police officer dead. Two other officers sustain injuries during protests against the Government of Venezuela. Approximately 120 Opposition supporters also sustain injuries during the protests.
consolidated city and county in California, United States
one of the four fundamental states of matter
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a patent dispute between Apple Inc.
Saudi Arabia accepts the finding of the Joint Incidents Assessment Team, a setup of coalition states to investigate complaints against coalitions conduct in Decisive Storm, that the October 8 coalition’s bombardment at a funeral ceremony in Sana'a, in which over 140 people were killed and more than 600 injured, was based on wrong information. ,
The justices' June 23 decision (United States v. Texas) is final.
second-most populous Islamic denomination
A public poll on the internet in Russia selects the cartoon wolf Zabivaka as the official mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which the country will host in June and July 2018.
The United States Defense Department reports its Strategic Command systems detected a failed North Korean ballistic missile launch near the city of Kusong in North Pyongan Province.
Voters in Morocco go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Justice and Development Party winning the most seats. ,
South Africa formally begins the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court amid a dispute over the country's refusal to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at last year's African Union summit in Johannesburg.
device to initiate and control a sustained nuclear chain reaction
Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism called autophagy in the body's defenses where cells degrade and recycle their components.
A series of attacks in Rakhine State kill nine police officers and eight militants.
In rugby union, the New Zealand All Blacks win a record 18th consecutive test match, defeating the Australian Wallabies 37–10 at Eden Park, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers kill at least eight people in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
Voters in Moldova go to the polls for a presidential election.
Martin III, a former National Security Agency contractor, for violating the Espionage Act, specifically, with felony theft of government property.
Bacterial infection of the small intestine
Volkswagen still faces billions of dollars more in fines and litigation.
A gun battle that started when three armed men returned to a restaurant in Los Angeles, leaves 3 people dead and 12 others wounded.
A bridge in Haiti connecting Port-au-Prince with southern Haiti collapses. The storm has killed at least nine people in the Caribbean. ,
port city in the Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
A series of cyberattacks utilizing distributed denial-of-service attacks, targeting networks operated by DNS provider Dyn, makes major Internet platforms and services unavailable to large swaths of users in Europe and North America.
resort city in Riverside County, southern California, United States
John Stumpf resigns as CEO and chairman of Wells Fargo amid a scandal over its sales practices.
A militant from Al-Shabaab shoots dead an intelligence officer in Mogadishu.
Turkish authorities suspend nearly 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The United Nations announces that the warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting October 19 at 23:59 AST (4:59 EDT).
Governor Pat McCrory says places that had a foot of water in the morning, were under 12 feet of water.
Date: 26 July 2009 – present (13 years, 6 months and 1 day)
3333 North MacArthur Blvd Irving, Texas, United States
Police in China detain 75 people in connection with a service that determined the female gender of unborn babies for the purpose of abortion.
Weather forecasters expect the storm to impact up to 2.7 million people before veering northwest toward the Chinese coast on October 21.
cellular catabolic process in which cells digest parts of their own cytoplasm
American politician and First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)
Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–present)
The Obama administration through the United States Department of Commerce transfers oversight of the technical management of the Internet by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to an international consortium of stakeholders.
Democratic Party in influencing presidential election.
Russia vetoes a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that calls for a ceasefire in Aleppo.
The New York City Metropolitan Opera cancels its Saturday performances as a man, during an afternoon intermission, sprinkled an unidentified powder, suspected to be cremated ashes, into the orchestra pit. One person was exposed and requested medical attention.
Saudi-led coalition jets launch airstrikes on civilians at the funeral of the father of the Houthi government's Interior Minister in Sana'a, killing at least 140 people, and injuring over 500 more.
U.S multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer
A twin-prop Fairchild Metroliner Mark III light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Malta International Airport, killing all five French nationals on board. Malta officials say that the aircraft was part of a French customs surveillance operation tracing routes of illicit trafficking, of humans and drugs on Libyan coasts, and that the flight was heading for the Libyan city of Misrata. ,
diplomatic relations between Canada and the European Union
Hurricane Matthew hits the southeastern United States as the death toll in Haiti rises to at least 877.
So far, the group has infected 10 to 20 organizations with this malware.
Lot 1, Dinosaur Drive, Winton, Queensland
FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño (Timoleón) says his troops will honor its commitments to the Colombian government, including the permanent cease-fire, despite voters rejection of the peace accord in Sunday's referendum.
one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS
city in Western Asia, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority as its capital
alliance of militias fighting against ISIL and other Islamist extremists in the Syrian Civil War
deliberate attempt to create artificial, false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a product, security or commodity
Saudi Arabian-led air raids on the Yemeni capital Sana'a resume after a truce ends.
speed of electromagnetic waves in vacuum
A series of terrorist attacks that took place in Baghdad, Iraq in October 2016
Islamic State-related terrorist attacks in Turkey
person who commands, pilots, or serves as a crew member of a spacecraft
financial and commodity derivative exchange located in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Voters in Curaçao go to the polls to elect the 21 members of the Estates of Curaçao.
head of state and of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina
robotic spacecraft that is designed to resupply a space station
One pipeline reopened this evening while a second is expected to working by Saturday.
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)
Filipino cabinet member responsible for foreign policy
The city is where 43 students disappeared in September 2014.
President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017
Poland's Development Ministry cancels the April 2015 tender contract for the purchase of 50 Caracal helicopters from Airbus Helicopters, worth US$ 3.5 billion.
NASA probe that visited Pluto and Kuiper belt object 486958 Arrokoth
Typhoon Chaba, now a super typhoon with winds of 145 knots (165 mph), heads for Japan's southern islands with storm warnings of torrential rain followed by mudslides and flooding.
A shooting takes place in Jerusalem that kills two people, including a police officer, injuring six others. The attack was carried out by a Palestinian gunman who opened fire from a vehicle on people waiting at a train station and then the nearby police headquarters in Jerusalem. Israeli police kill the gunman.
Attacks targeting a Shi'ite Muslim gathering, a police check-point, and the family of an anti-Islamic State Sunni paramilitary leader, kill at least 55 people in Iraq.
combined organization of the US and Canada providing air defence for North America
The United Nations announces that the warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting October 19 at 23:59 AST (4:59 EDT). ,
Clashes between rival gangs in at least two prisons in Brazil, leave at least 18 people killed.
Local media report that there are 14 injuries in Kurayoshi.
object that is supposed to bring good luck or that is used for symbolize an organization and particular event
series of purges by the Government of Turkey in reaction to the July 15th, 2016 failed coup d'état
The Atlanta Braves play their final game at Turner Field.
Government of Hassan Rouhani (2013–2017)
The eleventh government of the Islamic Republic of Iran
A collision between a tour bus and a tractor-trailer kills at least 13 people, and injures 31 others in Desert Hot Springs, California, United States.
UNESCO declares the Western Wall an "Islamic site" and refrains from mentioning its connection to Jewish culture.
Typhoon Haima, the second tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines in less than a week, kills at least seven people and causes flooding, landslides, and power outages before heading out to sea. , ,
With over 95 percent of votes counted, Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's Democratic Party of Socialists receives the most votes in this quadrennial election, but, by five seats, fails to gain an absolute majority.
baseball park in Atlanta metropolitan area
German chemical company with worldwide reach
Portion of Jerusalem occupied by Israel in 1967
China ended its one-child policy last year.
region to the center-east of America composed of many islands / coastal regions surrounding the Caribbean Sea
Vin Scully, broadcaster for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers since 1950, calls his final game.
Suspected Syrian or Russian warplanes conduct airstrikes on a residential area and a school in Haas village in rebel-held Idlib Governorate, killing at least 26 civilians, most of them children.
He was the world's longest currently serving monarch.
A man driving the wrong way on Interstate 89 in Williston, Vermont, kills five people, all local high school juniors.
2013–present spillover of the Syrian Civil War
political association of mostly former British Empire territories
software that is intentionally hostile, intrusive, or damaging to a computer or network
Sarika has killed at least two people and displaced more than 150,000 in the Philippines.
protected area for flora, fauna or features of geological interest
armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine
At least 12 are killed in an attack on a hotel in Kenya. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
The Pirate Party, which led in most of this month's polls, is getting about 13 percent.
Officials postpone Munster's European Rugby Champions Cup match against Racing 92.
A gunman kills 14 people at a Shi'ite shrine in Kabul on a holy day.
At an annual meeting of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Hobart, Australia, twenty-four countries and the European Union agree to create the world's largest marine park in Antarctica's Ross Sea.
The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S. Democratic Party in influencing presidential election.
2013 murder trial in Florida, United States
Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary
Committee chief and de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party in a province, city, or other administrative region
component of the criminal justice system of Pakistan
Haiti's electoral council postpones the country's presidential election scheduled for October 9.
This separation would take effect one year from when notice is formally received by the U.N. Secretary-General.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reshuffles his cabinet, replacing culture, education, and sports ministers. The new ministers still need the parliament's approval. ,
sectarian conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar
ongoing crisis occurring in the country of Yemen
The United States Department of Justice charges a top secret security clearance National Security Agency contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, with theft of government property and unauthorised removal of "highly classified" materials.
Federal Member State in northeastern Somalia
While attempting to create a nanotechnology-based, catalyst-mediated series of chemical reactions to turn carbon dioxide (CO2) (a greenhouse gas) into a usable fuel, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory instead discover a single-step process using the surface area of tiny spikes of copper and carbon as a catalyst to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol (CH3CH2OH).
A retrial court finds Welsh footballer Ched Evans not guilty.
One person is killed and at least five others injured following an explosion and fire along one of Colonial Pipeline's conduits in rural Alabama (US), the second incident on this section of the line in less than two months.
Android phablet that was produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics
capital city of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
A research team led by an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona publishes a paper in Nature on the genetic history of HIV proving that Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant who had been identified for years as "Patient Zero" of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., did not spread the virus to the country.
Poland's Development Ministry cancels the April 2015 tender contract for the purchase of 50 Caracal helicopters from Airbus Helicopters, worth US$ 3.5 billion. ,
Hurricane Matthew kills at least 26 people on the island of Hispaniola; 22 in Haiti and four more in the Dominican Republic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicts the storm, currently a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h), will strengthen as it moves across the Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and be near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow evening. , , ,
province in China, whose capital is Xi'an
5th President of Moldova from 2016 until 2020
This follows the demise of a merger plan between Baker Hughes and Halliburton.
Date: 15 December 2013 – 22 February 2020 (6 years, 2 months, 1 week and 1 day)
The Obama administration lifts U.S. sanctions on Myanmar by terminating an emergency order that deemed the policies of the former military government a threat to U.S. national security.
variety of Marxism–Leninism developed by Mao Zedong
illicit texts sent to a fifteen year old girl
opposition faction in the Syrian Civil War
Many buildings are reported as having been destroyed.
British journalist and politician (born 1986)
The United States Navy's USS Mason is fired on for the third time in a week from territory controlled by Houthi forces in Yemen, while in international waters of the Red Sea. The ship deployed countermeasures and was not struck, according to U.S. officials.
Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S. citizens from a fake call center.
Voters head to the polls in second round elections in constituencies where no candidate won over 50 percent on October 9 with the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union winning a plurality of seats.
Icelandic voters elect 30 women to parliament, the most ever for the island nation. Voter turnout was under 80 percent, the lowest ever.
Ethiopia's government declares a six-month state of emergency amid continuing protests, especially in the restive Oromia Region.
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
Turkish preacher, former imam, writer, and political figure
NASA announces the return of the final piece of data collected during New Horizons' flyby of Pluto in July 2015.
A chemical spill at the MGP Ingredients plant in Atchison, Kansas, United States, injures 26 people and leads to evacuations. The spill of sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid produces a toxic fog.
The Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana suspends participation in any joint patrols with the United States in the disputed South China Sea. Lorenzana will ask a detachment of 107 U.S. troops providing counterterrorism assistance on the southern island of Mindanao to leave as President Rodrigo Duterte requested.
de facto state, considered internationally to be part of Ukraine, 2014–2022
American regional airline based in Alaska
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, the world's longest reigning monarch, is in unstable condition after a hemodialysis treatment. ,
largest city in California, United States of America
Matthew gains strength and again becomes a Category 4 storm with 140 mph (220 km/h) maximum sustained winds.
political and economic union of 27 European states
General Electric says it plans to merge its oil and gas business with the large oilfield services provider Baker Hughes. This follows the demise of a merger plan between Baker Hughes and Halliburton.
transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
ISIL claims responsibility as a response to take back launching of its stronghold Mosul by the Iraqi forces.
For physicians caring for people with neurologic disorders and those interested in the structure and function of the normal and diseased nervous system.
United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti
A United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti that has been in operation since 2004.
While attempting to create a nanotechnology-based, catalyst-mediated series of chemical reactions to turn carbon dioxide (CO2) (a greenhouse gas) into a usable fuel, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory instead discover a single-step process using the surface area of tiny spikes of copper and carbon as a catalyst to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol (CH3CH2OH). The reaction may serve as a method to alleviate possible climate change by both decreasing CO2 in the atmosphere and by using the ethanol as an additive to fuels to increase efficiency and thereby decrease consumption. ,
A building collapse killed one. The disaster occurred in Cairo.
Also, authorities revise the death toll to 17 from yesterday's attack on a Kabul Shiite shrine.
Colombian politician and former guerrilla
Floods in Central Vietnam, triggered by Typhoon Sarika's heavy rains, kill at least 24 people with 4 others missing. Sarika has killed at least two people and displaced more than 150,000 in the Philippines.
Rain and flooding in Egypt kills at least 18 people.
An explosion and fire in Ludwigshafen, at the largest production site of BASF in Germany, kills at least two people and injures six more with two people still missing. BASF is the world's biggest chemical producer.
The Nobel Prize committee awards Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 thousand Colombians and displaced close to six million people.
A passenger train derails in central Cameroon, killing at least 53 people and injuring 575 others. ,
musician who writes, composes and sings own songs
Mexican tequila producer Jose Cuervo will delay its IPO until after the U.S. presidential election due to concern over potential market volatility.
activists and the Philippine National Police in front of the U.S.
Period of formation of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean in 2016
Croatian lawmakers approve conservative Croatian Democratic Union party leader Andrej Plenković's new coalition government 91–45.
A suicide bomber kills three police officers and wounds at least nine people in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep during a police raid on a suspected ISIL safehouse.
A research team led by an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona publishes a paper in Nature on the genetic history of HIV proving that Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian flight attendant who had been identified for years as "Patient Zero" of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S., did not spread the virus to the country. The study indicates that HIV first spread to the U.S. from the Caribbean around 1970.
UNESCO's executive board approves the "Occupied Palestine" resolution which reaffirms the cultural heritage of Palestine, especially East Jerusalem, and criticizes certain Israeli actions regarding the Palestinian territories.
The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Matthew rises to 27 with at least five people still missing in North Carolina. Governor Pat McCrory warns that the state's swollen rivers are still rising with flooding continuing to pose threats to life and property this week. The storm, downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone yesterday, moves away from the U.S. coastline on an east-northeast track. , ,
A bomb explosion among crowds of Shiite Muslims gathered to mark Ashura, one of their holiest commemorations, kills at least 12 people and wounds 28 others. Also, authorities revise the death toll to 17 from yesterday's attack on a Kabul Shiite shrine.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos extends his ceasefire with the FARC rebels through the end of the year.
The Catholic Church announces that cremated remains must be kept in consecrated land, rather than scattered about or kept at home. The Church first permitted cremation in 1963, but still strongly favours burial.
missile that follows a sub-orbital ballistic flightpath
The United Nations Security Council affirms the first step in the election of Portuguese António Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.
clade of sauropsid vertebrates that dominated the Mesozoic Era (including birds)
Branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Security analysts state that the October 21 denial-of-service attacks on Internet performance management company Dyn was perpetrated using Mirai malware-created botnets that used consumer internet of things (IoT) smart devices, such as digital video recorders, cable set-top boxes, routers, etc. Technology experts warn that the security included with IoT is weak, or sometimes even nonexistent. ,
The scandal over improper practices of unauthorized accounts at Wells Fargo extends to thousands of small-business owners.
sovereign state in southern Europe, enclaved within Italy
person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament
Icelandic voters elect 30 women to parliament, the most ever for the island nation.
Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign
unsuccessful political campaign for United States presidency
members of the extended family of the reigning Emperor of Japan
Two other officers sustain injuries during protests against the Government of Venezuela.
company involved in manufacturing aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft
One of the dead is the mayor of Sana'a, Abdul-Qader Hilal.
In baseball, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series. ,
Japan's Prince Mikasa, the oldest member of the Imperial Family, dies at the age of 100.
modular space station in low Earth orbit
The current testing protocol is to obtain a sample of cerebrospinal fluid or brain tissue, or wait for a post-mortem after death.
the three Clinton vs. Trump Presidential Debates.
rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaves made to be smoked
U.S. federal executive department overseeing commerce
global helicopter manufacturing and support company
58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
The Obama administration through the U.S. Department of Justice announces that they will file criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating a judge's order to stop immigration patrols that led to a court finding of racial profiling.
Last week, Burundi's parliament voted to leave the ICC, but the required paperwork has not yet reached the U.N.
The Nobel Prize committee awards Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 thousand Colombians and displaced close to six million people. ,
The King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej dies at the age of 88. He was the world's longest currently serving monarch.
A public poll on the internet in Russia selects the cartoon wolf Zabivaka as the official mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which the country will host in June and July 2018. ,
joint command centre of Islamist rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War
A police dispersal occurs between combined minority groups and anti-U.S. activists and the Philippine National Police in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila. Police arrest 30 protesters with 60 people injured, several rammed by a police van driven during the dispersal. , ,
Authorities say that at least 300 people were involved in the illegal service in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.
Persian-speaking people native to central Afghanistan
theme park situated on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia
prejudice, hatred of, discrimination or violence directed against Shia Muslims
archipelago in the Northwestern West Indies
In an appeals review, the International Tennis Federation states that tennis players will not be able to plead ignorance if they test positive for banned substances. The Court of Arbitration for Sport reduces Maria Sharapova's two-year ban to 15 months. She tested positive for meldonium.
Weather forecasters issue hurricane warnings for eastern Cuba, from Las Tunas to Guantánamo provinces.
An American Airlines Boeing 767 catches fire after an aborted takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Dublin defeats Mayo in the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, retaining the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time since 1977. ,
agreement having a lawful object entered into voluntarily by multiple parties (may be explicitly written or oral)
An unknown gunman shoots a Venezuelan police officer dead.
American manufacturer of office products
capital and largest city of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria
Voter turnout was under 80 percent, the lowest ever.
The European Union calls an emergency two-day meeting about the planned EU-Canada free trade agreement, approved by all 28 EU member governments but held up by the "non" vote in Wallonia, one of Belgium's five sub-federal administrations. , ,
The European Union condemns Russia's air campaign in Syria, saying it may be guilty of war crimes, and it vowed to impose more sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's government.
The Obama administration formally accuses the Russian government of cyber attacks against the U.S.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a rebel official report that Russian jets have resumed heavy bombing, and, in total, have now killed at least 50 civilians in villages surrounding rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
part of Russia located mainly north of the Arctic Circle
An explosion that targeted a funeral in Ma'rib for a top Yemeni army commander, kills five people, including the deceased's brother, and injures 15 more. ,
This is the country's first election since the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff.
2016 Quetta police training college attack
2016 terrorist attack in Quetta, Pakistan
An agency that oversees elections in Haiti.
Date: 24 July 2015 – present (7 years, 6 months and 3 days)
Joint offensive by Iraqi government forces with allied militias to retake the city of Mosul from ISIL
The prosecutors state that Martin had an “arsenal” of weapons in his home.
city and state capital of Oklahoma, United States
the world's longest currently serving monarch
combustible fuel containing hydrocarbons formed by natural processes such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, examples being coal, petroleum and natural gas
The Parliament of Burundi votes overwhelmingly to withdraw Burundi from the Dutch-based International Criminal Court.
A fire breaks out in the ICU ward and Maternity ward of Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor, Malaysia, killing six patients and injured two others.
Colombian government and FARC representatives meet in Havana, and President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with presidential predecessors Álvaro Uribe, the accord opposition leader, and Andrés Pastrana Arango, to continue negotiations to end the 52-year war that has killed around a quarter of a million people. ,
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake occurs in Central Italy 68 kilometres east southeast of Perugia.
With about 25 percent of the votes counted, the Independence Party is receiving about 30 percent of the ballots cast.
The U.S. Supreme Court declines to rehear President Barack Obama's 2014 plan (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans) to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4–4 in June.
Nippon Professional Baseball team in the Pacific League
government research facility in Tennessee, United States
The United Nations General Assembly officially appoints former Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres its next Secretary-General.
A theatrical play in Nepali based on 'The Mahabharata'
Floods in Central Vietnam, triggered by Typhoon Sarika's heavy rains, kill at least 24 people with 4 others missing.
Turkish-backed rebels advance on the symbolic ISIL-controlled town of Dabiq, in northern Syria.
93rd edition of Major League Baseball's championship series
He had previously been sentenced to five years imprisonment for rape in 2012.
Rhea County, near Spring City, Tennessee
bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States
United Nations Secretary-General selection
executive department of the U.S. federal government
The Tennessee Valley Authority completes the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, the first U.S. nuclear reactor to enter commercial operation in 20 years.
Following his October 5 arrest, U.S. federal prosecutors in Baltimore charge Harold T. Martin III, a former National Security Agency contractor, for violating the Espionage Act, specifically, with felony theft of government property. Prosecutors state that, over a 20-year time period, Martin stole at least 50 terabytes of data and "six full bankers boxes" of classified and other documents. The prosecutors state that Martin had an “arsenal” of weapons in his home.
current rise in Earth's average temperature and related large-scale shifts in weather patterns
Referendum voters in Colombia narrowly fail to ratify a peace deal between the Government of Colombia and FARC.
eastern portion of the Southern United States
opera company in Manhattan, New York City
manned spaceflight of the Shenzhou program of China
A shooting takes place in Jerusalem that kills two people, including a police officer, injuring six others.
Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard
A militant group affiliated with ISIL seizes the coastal town of Qandala in the autonomous Puntland region.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City reports that an unarmed black man, Terence Crutcher, shot dead on September 16, by a white police officer, Betty Jo Shelby, had acute PCP intoxication. Authorities charged her with first-degree manslaughter.
Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
institution responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom
chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6; common element of all known life
upper house of the United States Congress
medical condition in which the brain does not develop properly resulting in a smaller than normal head
2016–17 European Rugby Champions Cup pool stage
British American Tobacco offers to buy out U.S.
Police allegedly attack Oromo protestors at a religious festival in Bishoftu, Ethiopia causing a stampede which kills dozens of people.
human settlement in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States of America
bovine counterpart to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Voters in Morocco go to the polls for a general election with the ruling Justice and Development Party winning the most seats.
federal state, capital and largest city of Germany
The European Union calls an emergency two-day meeting about the planned EU-Canada free trade agreement, approved by all 28 EU member governments but held up by the "non" vote in Wallonia, one of Belgium's five sub-federal administrations.
Weather forecasters expect tropical storm conditions today with landfall tomorrow.
the southernmost of the three federal regions of Belgium
Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin tests its New Shepard reusable launch system in Van Horn, Texas.
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria since 2011
WikiLeaks releases over 2000 emails from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman and former Counselor to the President John Podesta.
Russian President Vladimir Putin deploys the nuclear-capable Iskander mobile short-range ballistic missile system to the Russian Kaliningrad exclave between Poland and Lithuania.
gas in an atmosphere of a planet (usually Earth) that absorbs and emits radiation within the thermal infrared range and causes the greenhouse effect
continent on the Earth's northwestern quadrant, spanning from the Arctic Archipelago to the Panama Isthmus
Pollsters predict that the Workers' Party will fair poorly.
China, which had backed Russia's four previous Syria-related vetoes, abstains.
one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Police set up a dragnet for the suspects.
warship type designed for escort duties against smaller vessels
The police arrested the students and then handed them over to a drug cartel who killed them and incinerated their bodies.
official currency of the United Kingdom and other territories
Voters in Hungary go to the polls for a referendum on whether to accept mandatory European Union quotas on relocating migrants.
Timeline of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
act of mass impulse among herd of animals or a crowd of people
Nippon Professional Baseball team in the Central League
A Ravn Alaska Cessna 208B crashes near Togiak, Alaska killing three people.
former official residence of the president of South Korea
Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew's outer bands drench Haiti and Jamaica, killing a Haitian fisherman.
Governor Pat McCrory warns that the state's swollen rivers are still rising with flooding continuing to pose threats to life and property this week.
national team representing Australia in rugby union
United States Republican Party vice presidential candidate Mike Pence's campaign plane skids off the runway at LaGuardia Airport with no injuries reported.
substance used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease
Matthew gains strength and again becomes a Category 4 storm with 140 mph (220 km/h) maximum sustained winds. ,
citizens or residents of the United States of America
general election to the Icelandic parliament
Belgian politicians, including those from the dissident Wallonia region, agree on Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement language that addresses Walloon concerns.
At least 12 are killed in an attack on a hotel in Kenya.
2010s migrant crisis in the European Union
A fire the same day destroyed the suspect's house.
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Tottori Prefecture in western Japan.
A Somalian regional government demands an explanation from the United States after an airstrike kills 22 civilians and other soldiers instead of the targeted Al-Shabaab militants in Galmudug.
The Philippines Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana suspends participation in any joint patrols with the United States in the disputed South China Sea.
fascist, antisemitic, nationalist, anti-communist, totalitarian ideology of the regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945
After two years on the run, Mexican officials arrest the former police chief of a Mexican city, Felipe Flores, capturing him in Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero.
city in Dillingham Census Area, Alaska, United States
chief executive of the Mexican state of Veracruz
A bomb explosion among crowds of Shiite Muslims gathered to mark Ashura, one of their holiest commemorations, kills at least 12 people and wounds 28 others.
intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states
Two prisons in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, are bombed by Saudi Arabian jets, leaving at least 60 dead.
Donald Trump Access Hollywood controversy
capital and the largest city of Afghanistan
conflict among rival groups seeking to control of the territory of Libya
An apparent sectarian attack by two motorcyclists who open fire on a bus traveling to Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan, kills four women from Pakistan's Shia Hazara and injures two other people. , ,
In baseball, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the Japan Series.
The Philippine government places more than two dozen provinces on alert before Typhoon Haima makes landfall over Luzon. Haima, downgraded by the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System to a Category 4 storm, landfalls Cagayan province in the island's northeast. Weather forecasters expect the storm to impact up to 2.7 million people before veering northwest toward the Chinese coast on October 21. , ,
successful 2016 US presidential campaign
The data, taking about five hours at light speed to travel across 5.5 billion kilometers (3.4 billion miles), arrived at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on the morning of October 25.
Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon will introduce a bill launching a new referendum to determine the final status of the country.
Clashes between government troops and rebels in South Sudan, leave at least 56 people killed.
national police agency of Myanmar (Burma)
ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant
Nigerian jihadist terrorist organization
withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Near Uri, Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executes at least 284 people in Mosul.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel invites the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and France to meet tomorrow in Berlin to discuss peace efforts in eastern Ukraine.
Investigators conclude the crash was an intentional act motivated by suicide based on the surviving instructor who said there was an argument and struggle for control.
U.S. federal executive department in charge of law enforcement
The King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej dies at the age of 88.
A series of cyberattacks utilizing distributed denial-of-service attacks, targeting networks operated by DNS provider Dyn, makes major Internet platforms and services unavailable to large swaths of users in Europe and North America. Affected companies include Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, PayPal, Netflix, and Airbnb.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reshuffles his cabinet, replacing culture, education, and sports ministers.
ISIL militants launch attacks on government buildings, police stations, and a power station in the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, killing dozens of people.
Hurricane Nicole impacts Bermuda at Category 3 strength, making it the strongest hurricane to effect the British Overseas Territory since Hurricane Fabian in 2003.
impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff
An apparent sectarian attack by two motorcyclists who open fire on a bus traveling to Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan, kills four women from Pakistan's Shia Hazara and injures two other people.
BASF is the world's biggest chemical producer.
A gas explosion in the Russian city of Ryazan kills at least three people and injures 13 others.
The death toll from the October 21 crash of a Camrail train rises to at least 73 people with another 600 wounded.
Lebanese Army General and President of Lebanon
Mylan pays US$465 million to settle its underpayment to U.S.
recorded discussion between Donald Trump and Billy Bush in 2005
Computer security firm Symantec warns a second hacking group, going by the name Odinaff, is trying to rob banks using fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same approach that yielded U.S.$81 million in February's attack on Bangladesh's central bank. So far, the group has infected 10 to 20 organizations with this malware. ,
A Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes and leaves at least 19 dead and three others injured on the Yamal Peninsula in Russia's Extreme North.
The death toll in North Carolina rises to 22 as flood waters continue to rise.
The Cleveland Indians defeat the Toronto Blue Jays and win the American League Championship Series 4–1, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1997.
solemn dedication to a special purpose or service
Police arrest 30 protesters with 60 people injured, several rammed by a police van driven during the dispersal.
country's more than 50-year-long civil war
murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler
Gaelic Athletic Association board for County Mayo, Ireland
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Syrian American Medical Society reports the city's main trauma hospital closes.
multinational business services company headquartered in Fremont, California
Date: 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
head of state and head of government of the Philippines
The study indicates that HIV first spread to the U.S.
banned Islamist organization in India; formed in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, in April 1977
2016 National League Championship Series
47th edition of Major League Baseball's National League Championship Series
A chemical spill at the MGP Ingredients plant in Atchison, Kansas, United States, injures 26 people and leads to evacuations.
Volkswagen diesel emissions cheating scandal
clear colorless bodily fluid found in the brain and spine
conjoined twins who are fused at the cranium
cyber attack disrupting service by overloading the provider of the service
writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure
UK Independence Party leadership election, November 2016
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers and win the National League Championship Series 4–2, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1945.
radioactive, metallic element with the atomic number 92
long-range, subsonic cruise missile by Raytheon
While an overwhelming majority of voters reject the EU's migrant quotas, turnout was too low to make the poll valid.
A retrial court finds Welsh footballer Ched Evans not guilty. He had previously been sentenced to five years imprisonment for rape in 2012.
Balochistan Police College, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan
social insurance system in the United Kingdom
The Obama administration's Treasury Department, in a move against corporate tax inversions, enacts regulations to combat a key tax-reduction technique known as earnings stripping.
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Cleveland, Ohio
Mexican tequila producer Jose Cuervo will delay its IPO until after the U.S.
Brazilian voters cast ballots in the nationwide election of mayors and city councils in 5,568 municipalities.
Head of state of The Republic of Colombia
6.1 or 6.2 magnitude earthquake on 24 August 2016 in the central parts of Italy
coalition’s bombardment at a funeral ceremony
public university in Tucson, Arizona, United States
Turkish jets hit Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia with 26 airstrikes in three recently-captured-from-ISIL villages west of al-Bab and northeast of Aleppo. The Turkish General Staff says between 160 and 200 have been killed, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports 11 dead and dozens of people wounded. ,
American politician in Pennsylvania (born 1966)
information office documenting human rights abuses in the Syrian Civil War
a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who conferred the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics
The deposition process of Dilma Rousseff
first minister for the Canadian province of Alberta
corporate move to a lower tax jurisdiction
American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler
rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another
city in San Diego County, California, United States; second-largest city in California
The marine park will cover more than 12 percent of the Southern Ocean, and will be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years.
West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem, a part of the State of Israel Capital, in the status of belligerent occupation, supported by international public law and the High Court of Justice of Israel
armed occupation of a US federal protected area in Oregon in 2016
The reaction may serve as a method to alleviate possible climate change by both decreasing CO2 in the atmosphere and by using the ethanol as an additive to fuels to increase efficiency and thereby decrease consumption.
baseball league, part of Major League Baseball
Michael Bisping defeated Dan Henderson in the main event to retain his middleweight championship.
Period of formation of tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific Ocean in 2016
He will now be extradited within 28 days.
specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health
Former Pakistani three time Prime Minister, businessman, corruption master and politician
city and county seat of Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
The United Nations Security Council affirms the first step in the election of Portuguese António Guterres as the next Secretary-General of the United Nations. If ratified by the General Assembly, he will take office on January 1, 2017.
public research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States
At least 174 inmates escape in Arcahaie, Haiti, leaving one guard dead.
head of state and head of government of the United States of America
topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Russian state oil major Rosneft pays for a controlling stake in both India's Essar Oil and port facilities that it already owns.
The Category 4 storm, with 140 mph ((220 km/h) maximum sustained winds), is heading towards western Haiti, eastern Cuba, and the southeastern and central Bahamas.
city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India
Specifically, she was convicted on August 15 on charges of perjury, false swearing, obstruction of justice, official oppression, and conspiracy.
process of increasing the rate of a chemical reaction
battle between Iraqi Kurdish forces and ISIL in Iraq
bilateral relations between Philippines and United States
Affected companies include Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, PayPal, Netflix, and Airbnb.
status granted to individuals allowing them access to classified information or to restricted areas
Security analysts state that the October 21 denial-of-service attacks on Internet performance management company Dyn was perpetrated using Mirai malware-created botnets that used consumer internet of things (IoT) smart devices, such as digital video recorders, cable set-top boxes, routers, etc.
The Progressive Party, the current ruling partner, garnered 11.5% and eight positions, a loss of 11 seats.
National Hurricane Center predicts the storm, currently a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph (185 km/h), will strengthen as it moves across the Bahamas tonight and tomorrow, and be near the east coast of Florida by tomorrow evening.
British politician and former commodity broker (born 1964)
Aleppo offensive (September–October 2016)
town in and county seat of Orange County, North Carolina, United States
long-time aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton
Tottori is Japan's least populous prefecture.
rights preventing the infringement of personal freedom by other social actors
suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
contingency operating mode of a spacecraft in which non-essential systems are shut down and vehicle preservation is the top priority
Secretary of Chinese Communist Party of Tianjin
A series of earthquakes strikes a region of Central Italy already impacted by a major quake in August.
Russian and Syrian government attacks on rebel-held east Aleppo kill two people and injure 13 others.
city in Riverside County, California, United States
Saudi war against Houthis in Yemen launched in 2015
halocarbon compounds in which fluorine replaces some hydrogen
The runway is said to have sustained damage causing the closure of the airport; a planned fundraiser was also canceled.
An explosion that targeted a funeral in Ma'rib for a top Yemeni army commander, kills five people, including the deceased's brother, and injures 15 more.
American teenager killed in a shooting (1995–2012)
1945 Major League Baseball championship series
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
North Korea's military development for weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological
human settlement in Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir, India
national space program of the People's Republic of China
If ratified by the General Assembly, he will take office on January 1, 2017.
Many buildings are damaged or destroyed across several towns.
The Church first permitted cremation in 1963, but still strongly favours burial.
automotive brand; manufacturing subsidiary of Volkswagen Group
international airport in London, England
country in Northwestern Europe with territories in the Caribbean
Police in the western Indian city of Thane arrest more than 750 people suspected of defrauding U.S.
An Israeli Air Force F-16 crashes while attempting to land at Ramon Airbase in southern Israel, killing the pilot.
county in Florida, United States of America
body of appointed advisers to the King of Thailand
governing body and organiser of rugby union club tournaments
Per Section 24 of the Constitution, Thailand formally confirms as the Regent pro tempore Prem Tinsulanonda, the President of the Privy Council and the former confidant of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The United States and the United Kingdom call for, "within hours," an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen to end the violence following last week's Saudi airstrikes, based on bad information, that killed around 140 people.
presidential candidate Donald Trump having a lewd conversation about women in 2005.
distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane
Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro
military operation launched in Aleppo in late September 2016
vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Raids by security forces on Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh in Gazipur leave 11 militants dead.
American singer, songwriter and actress (born 1966)
A London-based trader who traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Navinder Singh Sarao, accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" by placing bogus orders to spoof the market, fails in his legal bid to stop extradition and will now be sent to the United States to face trial where he is wanted by U.S.
island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
division of the United States' National Weather Service
The Philippine government places more than two dozen provinces on alert before Typhoon Haima makes landfall over Luzon.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
Swedish writer, member of the Swedish Academy
federally-owned electric utility corporation in the United States
polar continent in the Southern Hemisphere
island sovereign state in the West Indies
They now move to the new SunTrust Park for the 2017 season.
block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming
An unknown number of people remain missing and authorities report that cholera is spreading in the hardest hit-areas in the country's southwest.
Anglo-Australian multinational mining and petroleum company
one of four constituent countries of the United Kingdom: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
refugee and migrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France
With over 95 percent of votes counted, Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's Democratic Party of Socialists receives the most votes in this quadrennial election, but, by five seats, fails to gain an absolute majority. Djukanovic says he will seek a coalition with parties of national minorities.
ocean between Europe, Africa and the Americas
American neighborhood watch coordinator who shot and killed Trayvon Martin
General Electric says it plans to merge its oil and gas business with the large oilfield services provider Baker Hughes.
Hurricane Matthew hits the southeastern United States as the death toll in Haiti rises to at least 877. , , ,
the second oldest and most heavily travelled expressway in South Korea, connecting Seoul to Suwon, Daejeon, Gumi, Daegu, and Busan. It has the route number 1, signifying its role as South Korea's most important expressway
major problem limiting international investment
National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces
coalition of opposition groups in the Syrian civil war
United States Department of Transportation
U.S. federal executive department overseeing highways, railroads, aviation, transit, and other modes of transportation
(The Washington Post via The Chicago Tribune)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin sign several agreements including a $12.9 billion defense and energy deal.
The storm, downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone yesterday, moves away from the U.S.
free-trade agreement between Canada and the European Union
separatist insurgency being waged against the governments of Iran and Pakistan
Prosecutors state that, over a 20-year time period, Martin stole at least 50 terabytes of data and "six full bankers boxes" of classified and other documents.
Lebanese presidential election, 2014–2016
British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean
An explosion and fire in Ludwigshafen, at the largest production site of BASF in Germany, kills at least two people and injures six more with two people still missing.
General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces
February's attack on Bangladesh's central bank
town in and the seat of Culberson County, Texas, United States
dinosaur museum located in Winton, Queensland, Australia
offices held over time by the head of government of Germany
heist via the SWIFT network from a Bangladesh Bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
municipality of the Philippines in the province of Maguindanao
sovereign state in South Asia, situated on an archipelago in the Arabian Sea
Secretary of National Defense (Philippines)
capital of Balochistan Province, Pakistan
Date: 22 September 2016 – 16 October 2016 (3 weeks and 3 days)
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in October 2016
person who has been recognized for having an exceptional degree of holiness, sanctity, and virtue
Matthew's death toll in Haiti rises to at least one thousand, with victims being buried in mass graves.
spectrum of conditions caused by HIV infection
latest phase of the conflict which started after the escalation in 2015
General Directorate of Security (Turkey)
The mission returns the Antares rocket to flight after an anomaly on October 28, 2014, caused an Antares-series rocket to explode seconds after liftoff.
the protection of computer systems and networks from theft, damage, زmisuse or data leak
Major League Baseball team in Cumberland, Georgia
military, missiles were fired on United States Navy vessels in the Red Sea.
A police dispersal occurs between combined minority groups and anti-U.S.
A navigator who was also in the aircraft successfully ejects and escapes the incident unharmed.
United States civil space and aeronautics agency
Consulate General of the United States, Istanbul
mean distance between Earth and the Sun, common length reference in astronomy
primary national police force in Afghanistan
cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc in a $47 billion takeover that would create the world's biggest listed tobacco company.
measure of earthquake size, in terms of the energy released
Canadian flight attendant, long misidentified as the index case of the North American AIDS Crisis
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
any crime that involves a computer and a network
Colombian government and FARC representatives meet in Havana, and President Juan Manuel Santos will meet with presidential predecessors Álvaro Uribe, the accord opposition leader, and Andrés Pastrana Arango, to continue negotiations to end the 52-year war that has killed around a quarter of a million people.
Typhoon Haima, the second tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines in less than a week, kills at least seven people and causes flooding, landslides, and power outages before heading out to sea.
removal of pollution from soil, groundwater etc.
The Obama administration through the U.S. State Department announces the suspension of bilateral talks with Russia about the cessation of hostilities in Syria, as Russia and the Syrian government continue to pursue a military course despite the ceasefire accord.
Legislative body of the Islamic Republic of Iran
one of the six principal organs of the UN, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security
involvement of Turkey in the Syrian civil war
One person was exposed and requested medical attention.
A run off election will be held on November 13 between Igor Dodon and Maia Sandu after no candidate achieved a majority of votes.
South Africa will notify the United Nations that the country is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
American multinational corporation; provider of services and products to the energy industry
China launches Shenzhou 11, the country's sixth manned spaceflight mission and the first one to the Tiangong-2 space laboratory, with two taikonauts on a 30-day mission.
type of international match in rugby union
deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica
A stampede among Hindu pilgrims headed to Varanasi, India, kills at least 24 people and injures at least 20.
Land-based branch of the Military of Myanmar
head of state of the RSFSR (office established in 1991) and Russia
discount brokerage TD Ameritrade agrees to buy Scottrade for $2.7 billion.
Date: 16 September 2014 – present (8 years, 2 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Date: 30 December 2013 – 9 December 2017 (3 years, 11 months, 1 week and 2 days)
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians 3 runs to 2 at Illinois' Wrigley Field in Game 5 of the 2016 World Series to avoid elimination and force a Game 6 with the series standing at 3 games to 2 in favor of the Cleveland Indians.
Public liberal arts college in Farmville, Virginia
presidential election due to concern over potential market volatility.