Climate of Mars A new study finds that water on Mars may contain more oxygen than previously thought.
US President U.S. President Donald Trump announces his plan to lower American prescription drug prices.
Ethiopian United Nations diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde becomes the first female President of Ethiopia in its history after the resignation of Mulatu Teshome.
Me Too movement Labour peer Peter Hain uses parliamentary privilege to name Philip Green as the British businessman who used an injunction to prevent allegations of sexual harassment against him being published in "The Daily Telegraph".
Corruption in Spain Former IMF Director and ex-Deputy Prime Minister of Spain Rodrigo Rato enters prison to serve a sentence of 4 and a half years for a crime of embezzlement.
October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts The Miami-Dade Police Department and federal authorities believe several of the packages went through a mail processing and distribution center in Opa-locka, Florida and are currently searching the facility with a bomb squad and K-9 unit.
The FBI is investigating two packages found at postal facilities in Delaware, sent to former Vice President Joe Biden.
The New York City Police Department recovers a package similar to those found earlier this week at the office of TriBeCa Productions, which is used by actor Robert De Niro.
Sheffield Supertram On its first day of service the Sheffield Supertram's new tram-train is struck by a truck and derailed.
Dead Sea Flash floods near the Dead Sea in Jordan kill at least 21 people including 19 children on a school trip and injure 43 others.
2018 Pacific typhoon season Super Typhoon Yutu makes landfall on Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands as a category 5 storm. The typhoon becomes the most powerful tropical cyclone to strike any part of the United States since 1935.
United Kingdom The United Kingdom opens all combat roles in the British Armed Forces, including special forces, to women for the first time.