Foreign tourists from the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and other countries took part in the first international autumn marathon that reclusive North Korea hosted on Sunday (29 October).
A federal grand jury has issued the first charges against at least one person in Robert Muellers probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Catalan Parliament voted Friday to declare independence from Spain, prompting the Spanish Senate to invoke Article 155 of the constitution. This article allows the Spanish government to adopt the necessary means to force an autonomous community to comply with the general interests of Spain
Government documents have surfaced showing the FBI had substantial evidence of racketeering by Russian officials before the Obama administration approved the Uranium One deal.
US Defense Secretary James Mattis spoke beside South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-Moo during his visit to the DMZ on 27 October.
Russia launched four ballistic missiles on 26 October as part of large-scale war games involving the countrys strategic forces. The nuclear capable missiles were launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in western Russia, hitting a target at the Kura military testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula thousands of kilometres away.
President Donald Trump on Thursday (26 October) ordered the unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the FBI and CIA to block the release of some information to be reviewed further over the next 180 days. Trump allowed the immediate release of the secret files by the National Archives on 26 October following a last-minute scramble to meet a deadline set by the Congress in 1992.
The threat came hours after US President Donald Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea in a speech to the UN.
Former President George HW Bush was accused this week of sexually assaulting a woman and the man now sitting in the Oval Office has more than a dozen women accusing him of sexual misconduct. But long before public allegations against presidents became more common, the legacy of alleged sexual abuse and harassment from men leading the nation stretches back to Americas earliest days, spanning leaders both iconic and obscure.
Donald Trump and Bob Corkers ongoing feud escalated with the American president calling Corker incompetent, and the US senator naming the White House adult day care center.
Brain Clayton, a protester from a group called Americans take Action, was taken into custody following the incident.
The snap election is expected to be won by the incumbent President Shinzo Abe. The election is taking place on the same day as Typhoon Lan has hit the country.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets of Barcelona on Oct. 21, calling for Catalonia independence. The Spanish government is imposing direct rule in the region, something Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont called the worst attack on the institutions and people of Catalonia since the decrees of the military dictator Francisco Franco.
The man, dressed in braces and a t-shirt covered in swastikas, was surrounded by protesters outside the event at the University of Florida on 19 October.
The last major illustration by Tintin creator Herge will be put up for auction on Saturday (21 October) in Liege. Herge made the drawing, that included Tintin, his dog Snowy, Captain Haddock and a host of familiar characters, as a study for a mural at the Stockel metro station in Brussels.