Catalan president The President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Artur Mas i Gavarró, drops plans for a referendum on independence on November 9 from Spain following opposition from the Constitutional Court of Spain.
Schizophrenia A woman suffering from schizophrenia stabbed three students and a police negotiator at a secondary school in Žďár nad Sázavou, Czech Republic. A 16-year-old boy died due to his injuries.
2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season The death toll from Cyclone Hudhud rises to 24 with 400,000 people needing assistance in India's Andhra Pradesh and Orissa states.
2014 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Vongfong leaves Japan as a tropical storm having caused at least one death, two people missing and 93 injured.
Groupe BPCE A large French bank, Groupe BPCE launches a service that allows its customers to use the social network Twitter to send one another money.
Richard Flanagan Australian author Richard Flanagan's novel "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize.