The world this week
Powerful Typhoon Vongfong churned towards Japan on Saturday, injuring at least 20 people as it pounded the southern Okinawan islands with ferocious winds and driving rain. Photo: AP- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo reported that he, and his staff members have been receiving death threats from ISIS for removing the militant group's accounts.
- British businessman Shrien Dewani. (Photo: AP)
- In another unfortunate incident, a Liberian man, Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola.
- Liberia is the country hardest-hit by the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever. (Photo: AP)
- Fierce fighting had raged for the complex throughout the morning after IS militants captured part of it used by the Kurds' asayesh internal security force.
- Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani as U.S.-led air strikes failed to halt their advance and Turkish forces looked on without intervening.
- India's child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the coveted Nobel Peace Prize today. He headed various forms of peaceful protests focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain. We take a look at India's other Nobel
- Students leading pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong issued an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, urging him to consider political reforms in the city and blaming the city's unpopular leader for the demonstrations. Protesters sit on a main
- Another couple mentioned, "Even though we could have been married in another state, this is our home. It's one of those things. You know it's coming, and then it's here, and it's real. It really happened."
- The move came as obstacles to gay marriage fell in West Virginia even as other states pushed back against federal court actions this week, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, that could ultimately extend legal same-sex matrimony to 35 states.
- Dayvin Bartolome, right, kisses his husband Daniel Carroll after they got married at the Vegas Weddings chapel on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, in Las Vegas. Thursday was the first day same-sex marriages were allowed in Nevada.
- Nevada began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on Thursday after a district judge removed the final hurdle to same-sex matrimony in the state, hours after a conservative group withdrew a last-ditch effort to block the change.
- At least 20 people have been injured, including a nine-year-old girl and a man in his 20s who lost fingers after they were caught in doors slammed shut by strong winds in two cities, municipal officials said.
- More than 10,000 residents mostly in coastal areas were advised to evacuate with the weather agency warning the prefecture could be hit by hourly rainfall of up to 80 millimetres (three inches) by early Monday.
- Packing gusts of up to 234 kilometres (145 miles) per hour, the typhoon was moving north slowly, at 15 kilometres (nine miles) per hour.
- The monster storm was estimated to be about 110 kilometres (68 miles) southeast of Naha City in Japan's southernmost area of Okinawa at 0800 GMT, according to the nation's meteorological agency.
Powerful Typhoon Vongfong churned towards Japan on Saturday, injuring at least 20 people as it pounded the southern Okinawan islands with ferocious winds and driving rain. Photo: AP
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