NASA NASA's 1991-era Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is expected to fall from orbit sometime this evening Greenwich Mean Time.
United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives passes a resolution providing funding for the Government through to November 18, but the Senate vows to reject it, making a government shutdown from October 1 possible.
Patriotic Front Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata is declared the winner of the Zambian presidential election.
South Korea South Korean prosecutors raid the offices of seven savings banks whose operations were suspended last week, with the president of one bank committing suicide.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict The quartet of Middle East negotiators - the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations - call on both Israel and Palestine to resume negotiations.
During the opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, makes a bid for UN recognition in a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, which would exist in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and have East Jerusalem as its capital.
Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings predicts that financial returns on commercial property in the United States will stabilize, though slowly, in the months ahead.
Kabul Thousands of mourners gather in Kabul for the funeral of former President of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was killed by a suicide bomber earlier in the week.
2011 Yemeni uprising 2011 Yemeni uprising: The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, returns from Saudi Arabia after a three-month absence, amid an increase in political unrest and violence in Yemen.