Portal:Current events/2013 October 14
October 14, 2013 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
- Ethiopian officials report that a plot by a group of Somali nationals to attack Sunday's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification match in Addis Ababa failed when their explosives detonated inside their home, killing two of the would-be suicide bombers. (Reuters UK)
Business and Economy
- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences goes to three Americans, in connection with their work in asset prices: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller. (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from Cyclone Phailin rises to at least 18 in India as it dissipates. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- A judicial inquiry is ordered into a stampede during Navrati festivities near a temple in India's Madhya Pradesh state that resulted in 109 deaths and 120 people being injured. (NDTV)
Law and crime
- A man is arrested after attempting to enter Buckingham Palace, London, while in possession of a knife. (Huffington Post)
- A dry ice bomb explodes in an employee restroom at Los Angeles International Airport. Nobody was injured, and no arrests were made. Terminal 2 was briefly shut down and evacuated. It was the second incident of its kind to have occurred at the airport in two days. (CNN)
- The pastor of a Catholic parish in Northboro, Massachusetts, is removed after the Worcester diocese discovered more than $200,000 missing from parish accounts. (Catholic World News)