October 2025

31 days, 499 stories

  1. Friday 31Moldova's parliament appoints Alexandru Munteanu as prime minister following the victory of President Maia Sandu's Party of Action and Solidarity in the…9
  2. Thursday 30In the United Kingdom, King Charles III begins the formal process of revoking Prince Andrew's royal title due to his dealings with deceased convicted sex…9
  3. Wednesday 29In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June.18
  4. Tuesday 28Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds.19
  5. Monday 27Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica.11
  6. Sunday 26At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú, Misiones…19
  7. Saturday 25Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys…11
  8. Friday 24At least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa.19
  9. Thursday 23More than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American mafia, including…14
  10. Wednesday 22Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States.17
  11. Tuesday 21Sanae Takaichi is elected as Japan's first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic Party, agreed to form…11
  12. Monday 20At least one person is killed and four others are critically injured when a tornado hits the Ermont commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France.13
  13. Sunday 19Centrist candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party defeats independent right-wing candidate and former president Jorge Quiroga to win the…15
  14. Saturday 18The bodies of two deceased hostages were returned to Israel via the custody of the Red Cross from Hamas, the two hostages' names were Sgt. Maj. Muhammad…5
  15. Friday 17Israelis fire at a vehicle carrying a displaced family in Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including seven children. The IDF claims it crossed the…16
  16. Thursday 16At least three Palestinians are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops, bringing the total to at least 23 people killed by Israel since the start of the ceasefire.17
  17. Wednesday 15Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam Island…18
  18. Tuesday 14In association football, the South Africa soccer team qualifies for the upcoming FIFA World Cup following a 3-0 win against Rwanda. This will be their first…24
  19. Monday 13Heads of government of 30 countries and leaders of several major international organisations gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to discuss the next steps in the…17
  20. Sunday 12In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai Masters final…14
  21. Saturday 11British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual crimes…10
  22. Friday 10Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela.24
  23. Thursday 9Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst…16
  24. Wednesday 8Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks.14
  25. Tuesday 7Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition. She has told investigators it was her 17-year-old adoptive African…20
  26. Monday 6A teachers' strike in Alberta begins, making 51,000 teachers off-work and affects more than 700,000 students. Thousands rally across Alberta to support…21
  27. Sunday 5A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan, Jalisco…16
  28. Saturday 4Sanae Takaichi defeats Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime minister-designate…21
  29. Friday 3Bishop of London Sarah Mullally is announced as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England and the Anglican…25
  30. Thursday 2Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detains hundreds of activists from 44 countries carrying humanitarian aid bound for…15
  31. Wednesday 1A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019.21