Wikinews:2016/October

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October 2

• UK Prime Minister Theresa May plans to trigger article 50 by end of March next year

October 3

• Twelve-year journey of Rosetta ends; spacecraft crashes into comet
• Indonesian authorities investigate after pornographic film screened on billboard in Jakarta

October 4

• Argentina wins maiden FIFA Futsal World Cup

October 5

• World Wildlife Fund: 75% of seafood species consumed in Singapore not caught sustainably

October 6

• Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize for research on autophagy

October 7

• Stingray kills head diver of Underwater World Singapore

October 9

• Pakistan frames law against 'honour killing'

October 14

• Chelsea announces Nike sponsorship

October 15

• Toni Kroos signs Real Madrid contract extension
• Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice killed in plane crash

October 20

• Nobel Prize in Literature Committee abandons efforts to contact Bob Dylan

October 21

• On the campaign trail in the USA, September 2016

October 22

• Failed UK suicide bomber Mohamed Saeed-Alim aka Nicky Reilly dies
• California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo bank on identity theft

October 24

• Neymar signs contract extension with Barça till 2021
• Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US

October 26

• Angolan Supreme Court summons President dos Santos over nepotism claims

October 29

• Pakistani PM removes Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid