Portal:Current events/2017 October 9

October 9, 2017 (Monday)

Business and economy

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- The Nobel Prize committee awards American Richard Thaler the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel "for his contributions to behavioral economics." His work focuses on the psychology of the human conflict of what we plan for the financial present versus what we plan for the future. (Nobel Prize.org) (BBC)
2017 Kobe Steel falsification of data scandal
- Japan's third-biggest steelmaker, Kobe Steel, admits to falsification of product data. About four percent of the aluminum and copper products that it shipped from September 2016 to August 2017 were falsely labeled as meeting the specifications requested by 200 customers, including Toyota Motor Corp, Central Japan Railway Company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mazda Motor Corp, and Subaru Corp. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

A fire at the Sindika Trade Center, a construction materials shopping center in the northwestern edge of Moscow, Russia, forces the evacuation of at least 3000 people. (BBC) (Reuters)
October 2017 Northern California wildfires
- More than a dozen wildfires around Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, and Yuba counties in California, kill at least ten people, destroy at least 1500 homes and businesses, and force 20 thousand people to evacuate. The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, declares a state of emergency. (AP) (The Washington Post) (NBC)

Law and crime

Bosnian War
- The presiding judge Šaban Maksumić of the Sarajevo, Bosnian war crimes court acquits former Bosnian military officer Naser Orić of the charge of killing three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war during the Bosnian War. In July 2008, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands acquitted Orić for failing to prevent the deaths of five Bosnian Serb detainees and the mistreatment of eleven other detainees from late 1992 to early 1993. (Reuters)

Sports

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
- Iceland qualifies for the 2018 FIFA World Cup after defeating Kosovo 2–0 to win UEFA Group I, becoming the smallest nation by population to qualify for a FIFA World Cup. (The Guardian)