Portal:Current events/2014 October 6
October 6, 2014 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- ISIL prepares to establish itself in Libya and reports emerge that they are already in the city of Derna. (Al Arabiya)
- Kashmir conflict
- India and Pakistan trade fire across the borders resulting in five civilian deaths in India and four in Pakistan. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
Business and economics
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. agrees to sell its most prestigious hotel, Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria, for $1.95 billion to Chinese insurance company Anbang Insurance Group. (MarketWatch)
- American IT company Hewlett-Packard announces plans to split in two and shed 5,000 jobs. (Sci-Tech Today)
Health
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- A Spanish nurse becomes the first person to be infected with the Ebola virus outside West Africa. (New York Times)
- Enterovirus 68
- First death to be blamed on Enterovirus 68. Claims the life of a 4 year old named Eli Waller. (CBC)
Disasters and accidents
- 2014 Pacific typhoon season
- At least four people are dead as Typhoon Phanfone makes landfall in central Japan. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
Politics and elections
- The European Parliament rejects Hungary's EU commissioner-designate Tibor Navracsics as unsuitable for the education and culture commissioner post; he may still be given a different post in the commission, causing a reshuffle. (BBC)
Science
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- British neuroscientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian scientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (Huffington Post)