Template:In the news
- Typhoon Mangkhut impacts the Philippines, Taiwan, and China, resulting in at least 67 fatalities.
- Hurricane Florence (pictured) makes landfall in North Carolina, United States, killing at least 13 people.
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who co-discovered pulsars but was omitted from the related Nobel Prize, receives the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
- Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is stabbed during a campaign rally.
- The Supreme Court of India strikes down portions of the colonial-era Section 377, thereby making all private consensual sexual acts between adults legal.
- An earthquake in the south of Hokkaido, Japan, results in at least forty-one deaths.
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