2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak Liberia closes schools and quarantines communities in order to stop the spread of the Ebola virus that has claimed 672 lives in West Africa.
Landslide One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in the village of Ambe in the Pune district in India's Maharashtra state with 20 killed.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York The U.S. District Court in Manhattan, via Judge Jed Rakoff, orders Bank of America to pay $1.27 billion in damages relating to the housing bubble-era actions of what is now its Countrywide unit.
Argentina Argentina is required to pay $1.3bn to investors who bought its bonds at a big discount after a default in 2001-02 by the end of today or be in default again.
Morgan Stanley Analysts of Morgan Stanley predict that Russian President Vladimir Putin would soon block the transit of gas through Ukraine to Europe to retaliate against the world for imposing economic sanctions on Russia.
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offers to donate weapons to the West Bank to better hit Israeli cities such as Tel Aviv.
Three IDF soldiers are killed and fifteen injured when trying to disarm an IED rigged smuggling tunnel found at a UNRWA run health clinic in Khan Younis. Since the start of Operation Protective Edge 56 IDF soldiers and over 1200 Palestinian civilians and militants have been killed.
Israeli shelling of a UNRWA school in Jabaliya refugee camp kills at least 19 Palestinian civilians and wounds scores more.
Avdiivka Fighting intensifies in the east as Ukraine forces recapture control of the strategic town of Avdiivka from pro-Russian insurgents.