Portal:Current events/2018 October 25

October 25, 2018 (Thursday)

Arts and culture

The United Kingdom opens all combat roles in the British Armed Forces, including special forces, to women for the first time. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

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. (Saipan Tribune), (The Washington Post)
Flash floods near the Dead Sea in Jordan kill at least 21 people including 19 children on a school trip and injure 43 others. (Al Jazeera)
On its first day of service the Sheffield Supertram's new tram-train is struck by a truck and derailed. (ITV), (Express)

Law and crime

October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts
- 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. (NBC New York)
- The FBI is investigating two packages found at postal facilities in Delaware, sent to former Vice President Joe Biden. (Vice)
- 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. (CNN)
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. (The New York Times)
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. (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

Climate of Mars
- A new study finds that water on Mars may contain more oxygen than previously thought. (Times Now News)