Wikinews:2010/October
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October 1 [edit]
- New planet found in 'Habitable Zone'
- NASA's new space capsule to be ready for test flights by 2013
- Man dies in Serbian enclave; could not call ambulance
October 2 [edit]
- Filipino activist arrested for disrupting Manila Cathedral mass in Reproductive Health Bill protest
- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel steps down to run for Mayor of Chicago
October 3 [edit]
- Bomb threat forces Russian jet to land
- Plane crash in Peru kills all six passengers
- Collingwood win 2010 AFL Grand Final replay
- China launches Chang'e 2 lunar probe
October 4 [edit]
- NASCAR: Greg Biffle wins 2010 Price Chopper 400
- School bus crash kills one student in Georgia, US
- Church van flips killing four, injuring fifteen in Georgia, US
- U.S. issues travel alert for Europe amidst fears of Al Qaeda attack
- Moderate earthquake hits Crete, Greece
- Plane crash on Catalina Island injures three, causes bush fire
October 5 [edit]
- British actor and comedian Sir Norman Wisdom dies aged 95
- Two Chicago schools evacuated as suspicious package found
- Rare 1856 Double Eagle gold coin sells for US$345,000 in California
October 6 [edit]
- Remaining Expedition 25 crew to launch to International Space Station
- Plane crash in the Bahamas kills eight
October 7 [edit]
- Charlie the smoking chimpanzee dies aged 52
- Australian Dollar reaches a 27 year high
- Major fire results in significant damage to Texas apartment complex
- Two Santa Clara, Utah teens in critical condition after lightning strike
October 8 [edit]
- Nineteen killed in Burma ferry disaster
- Bomb attack in Londonderry, Northern Ireland injures two police officers
October 9 [edit]
- Wikinews interviews Ubuntu developer Fabrice
- Chilean miners rescue to begin on Tuesday, Minister Mañalich announces
- Afghan provincial governor killed in mosque bomb attack
- Scientology defector arrested after attempting to leave organization
- Additional damage to reservoir prompts evacuation of Kolontar, Hungary
- Macaque kills newborn in Malaysia
- Remaining Expedition 25 crew launch to space
- Patient in Buckinghamshire hospital was treated in toilet, inquiry hears
- Winning British EuroMillions lottery ticket worth £113 million claimed
October 10 [edit]
- Animal rights activists demand British coffee chain withdraw advertising campaign
- Car explosion in San Pedro, California was act of vandalism, say police
- Sebastian Vettel wins 2010 Japanese Grand Prix
- Baghdad judge clears pair of murdering six foreign soldiers
- US federal judge and Florida judge clash over Scientology wrongful death case
- Tropical storm Otto moves into central Atlantic
- Pakistan: Suspected US drone strikes kill seven rebels
- Residents of Leeds, England neighbourhood plagued with crime ask council for help
October 11 [edit]
- Andrew Marr angers bloggers, describing them as 'inadequate, pimpled and single'
- NASCAR: Tony Stewart wins 2010 Pepsi Max 400
- Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive
October 12 [edit]
October 13 [edit]
October 14 [edit]
October 15 [edit]
- Nevada Republican opposes Angle for US Senate over 'extreme' anti-abortion position
- Four miners trapped in Ecuador mine
- Tropical Storm Paula weakens to remnant low
- Brazilian astronomers propose new model of our galaxy
- District of Columbia Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee announces resignation
October 16 [edit]
- Texas Commissioner of Agriculture visits schools to kick off National School Lunch Week
- US Army to court martial soldier over three Afghan murders
- 20 dead, seventeen trapped after Chinese coal mine explosion
October 17 [edit]
- Greek film director Yannis Dalianides dies at age 87
- Teenager disappears in Pichilemu, Chile
- NASCAR: Jamie McMurray wins 2010 Bank of America 500
- Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies aged 85
October 18 [edit]
- 'Enough, enough, enough, enough': 1700 women march against mass rape in DR Congo
- One dead as Super Typhoon Megi makes landfall in Philippines
October 19 [edit]
October 20 [edit]
- Wikimedia Foundation announces departure of general counsel Mike Godwin
- Ten dead, nine injured as Super Typhoon Megi clears Philippines
October 21 [edit]
- Two men found guilty of murder of shop owner in West Yorkshire, England
- Electric company faces lawsuits from residents of California neighborhood destroyed by explosion
- Archaeologists uncover Britain's earliest known hospital
- British Government warns against tax breaks for Scientology
- Whooping cough outbreak kills ten infants in California
- Typhoon Megi heads towards China
- Scientist demands end to US 'addiction to oil'
- Australian jockey Stathi Katsidis found dead at age 31
October 22 [edit]
October 23 [edit]
- Typhoon Megi kills seven in Taiwan, heads towards southern China
- Four feared dead in Ireland helicopter crash
- Tropical storm Richard forms, drifts towards Honduras
- Nearly 200 dead in Haitian cholera outbreak
- Teenager killed in shark attack on California beach, water was like 'river of blood'
- WikiLeaks releases Iraq War logs
- Apple unveils new MacBook Air laptops, iLife '11 software suite
October 24 [edit]
- Wikinews investigates the reconstruction of Pichilemu, Chile after February earthquake
- Richard becomes a hurricane, threatens Belize
- Tropical storm Richard nears hurricane strength, soaks Honduras
- Cyclone Giri makes landfall in Myanmar, kills one
- US swimmer dies in open-water race
- Students evacuated after police find suspected drug lab at Georgetown University
October 25 [edit]
- Prime Minister of Barbados David Thompson dies at age 48
- Five police officers injured in Naples protest over new garbage tip
- Hurricane Richard makes landfall in Belize
October 26 [edit]
- Over 100 dead and hundreds missing in Indonesia after tsunami destroys island villages
- Over 250 dead in Haiti cholera outbreak, thousands infected
- Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia coast
- G20 agrees to avoid currency war, also agrees to reduce trade imbalances
- Fernando Alonso wins 2010 Korean Grand Prix
October 27 [edit]
- Paul the 'psychic' octopus dies in Germany
- Filesharing software distributor LimeWire ordered to close by court
October 28 [edit]
- Fifteen dead in Mexican car wash shooting
- 'Explosive' Haitian cholera outbreak kills 292, neighboring countries prepare
- Russian cargo ship launches to International Space Station
October 29 [edit]
October 30 [edit]
- UK court jails man for trolling online tribute pages
- Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery delayed another day
- First Prime Minister of Greenland Jonathan Motzfeldt dies at age 72
