Template:In the news
- Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane.
- The Cassini–Huygens mission (probe rendering shown) to the Saturn system ends with a controlled fall into the atmosphere of the planet.
- Carbon dating of the Bakhshali manuscript reveals the earliest known use of a zero symbol in ancient India.
- At least 84 people are killed and 93 others are injured in two attacks targeting Shia pilgrims in southern Iraq.
- Halimah Yacob wins the Singaporean presidential election by default after being declared the only eligible candidate.
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