World Wide Fund for Nature WWF releases a photo, taken by a camera trap in a forest in central Vietnam in September, of one of Earth's rarest mammals, the saola, which hadn’t been seen in 15 years.
Panthera blytheae Scientists discover "Panthera blytheae" in Tibet, the oldest big cat fossil ever discovered.
Southern Ocean A gigantic iceberg is floating in the Southern Ocean after breaking off the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
United States The United States Government announces that 106,185 people signed up for health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during its first month of release on October.
Chinese China, Russia, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and Algeria are elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
U.S. State Department The United States State Department designates Boko Haram as a "terrorist" group.
United States Marine Corps Four members of the United States Marine Corps are killed after ordnance accidentally explodes after a training exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Southern California.
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) The total international aid for the typhoon victims reaches over $140 million.
Starbucks Starbucks is ordered to pay Kraft Foods $2.76 billion in damages over a dispute about packaged coffee.
Pink diamond At the same auction, a pink diamond is sold for US$83.2 million, setting a new world record.
Diamond A 14.82-carat orange diamond sets a world record after it is sold at a Christie's auction in Geneva for $35.5 million.
Francis Bacon Francis Bacon's painting of his friend Lucian Freud, "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" (1969), is sold for $142.4 million.
Israel Israel cancels proposed plans to build new settlements in the West Bank after US and Palestinian opposition.