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Today in the World Countries

EVENTS
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Svante Pääbo for "discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution" (including sequencing genome of the Neanderthal).
DEATHS
Charles Fuller, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (A Soldier's Play; Zooman and the Sign; The Brownsville Raid), and screenwriter (A Soldier's Story; A Gathering of Old Men), who died at 83.
Kim Jung-Gi, Illustrator.

EVENTS
Pandora Papers investigation reveals secret wealth of 30 current and former world leaders including Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Czech PM Andrej Babis and former UK PM Tony Blair.
Record rainfall in Europe when 36 inches (925 mm) of rain begins falling in northern Italian town of Rossiglione.
MLB Cleveland win their last game under the Indians name, beating Texas Rangers 6-0.
MLB Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Hector Neris strikes out three Florida Marlins, setting new franchise record of 520, in his last game before becoming a free agent.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady becomes NFL's all-time leader in career passing yardage in 19-17 win vs NE Patriots at Gillette Stadium: Brady 22-43 for 269 yards to pass Drew Brees'high of 80,358.
TB Bucs quarterback Tom Brady becomes NFL's all-time leader in career passing yardage in 19-17 win vs NE Patriots at Gillette Stadium: Brady 22-43 for 269 yards to pass Drew Brees'high of 80,358.
Tropical Cyclone Shaheen makes landfall in Oman and Iran, killing at least nine people.
DEATHS
Jorge Medina, Religious Leader.
Cynthia Harris, American stage and screen actress (Edward & Mrs. Simpson; Mad About You - "Sylvia"), who died at 87.
Budge Patty, American tennis player (French C'ship, Wimbledon men's singles 1950), who died at 97.

EVENTS
The UK's wettest day on record, with average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) across the country in wake of Storm Alex.
DEATHS
Nicholas Taylor, Politician.

EVENTS
Liam Gallagher was at No.1 on the UK chart with his second solo studio album Why Me? Why Not. The album's lead single 'Shockwave' became one of Gallagher's biggest solo hits, and the best selling vinyl single of 2019 in the UK..
DEATHS
Vinnie Bell [Gambella], American session guitarist, electric sitar player, and pioneer of electronic effects in pop music, who died at 87.

EVENTS
Wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor arrested on corruption charges.
Most expensive whisky ever sold at auction for $1.1 million, the Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter and George Smith for their use of evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for discoveries in enzyme research.
259 people have died taking selfies since 2011 according to study in "Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care".
Cervical Cancer could be eliminated in Australia within decades because of government vaccination program, according to report in "The Lancet Public Health".
First exomoon, moon outside the solar system, discovered 8,000 years away (size of Neptune) by astronomers at Columbia University.
DEATHS
Bent Lorentzen, Danish orchestral, electronic, and opera composer, who died at 83.
Leon M. Lederman, American experimental physicist (1982 Nobel Prize for research on quarks and leptons) and author (The God Particle), who died from complications of dementia at 96.

EVENTS
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
King Felipe of Spain speaks out against the Catalan referendum saying organizers have "broken the rule of law".
US President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico after it was devastated by hurricane Maria.
DEATHS
Isabella Karle, American scientist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride, who died from a brain tumor at 95.
Jalal Talabani, Iraqi-Kurdish politician and President of Iraq (2005-2014), who died at 83.
Michel Jouvet, French neuroscientist and medical researcher who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement (REM sleep), who died at 91.
Solly Hemus, American baseball infielder (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies) and manager (St. Louis Cardinals 1959–61), who died at 94.

EVENTS
Yoshinori Ohsumi from Japan wins Nobel Prize for Medicine for research into autophagy.
DEATHS
Joan Marie Johnson, American pop singer (The Dixie Cups - "Chapel Of Love" ; "Iko Iko"), who died of congestive heart failure at 72.

EVENTS
Flash floods on the French Riviera kill at least 19 people.
Host nation England crashes out of Rugby World Cup in pool stage; loses to Australia,33-13 at Twickenham; Bernard Foley scores 2 tries and kicks 4 penalties & 3 conversions for the Wallabies.
US airstrike hits Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing around 19.
DEATHS
Dave Pike, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player, who died at 77.
Denis Healey, English politician (Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer), who died at 98.

EVENTS
Blues guitarist and singer B.B. King's last live performance at the House of Blues in Chicago.
Blues guitarist and singer B.B. King's last live performance, at the House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois.
A mint-condition copy of The Beatles' Please Please Me album, signed by George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr sold for $36,655 at an auction held in the US..
83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions.

EVENTS
325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy.
13 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria.
Chinese President President Xi Jinping announces plans for a ‘21st Century Maritime Silk Road’, linking China to Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean (Belt and Road Initiative / One Belt One Road) while in Indonesia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans for a "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", linking China to Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean (Belt and Road Initiative / One Belt One Road) while in Indonesia.

EVENTS
State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.