- By a narrow margin, Colombian voters have rejected a peace plan that would have ended a 50-year civil war with FARC rebels, throwing the future of the country into doubt.
- Residents of Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba are facing the strongest hurricane in a decade as Category 4 storm Matthew churns northward into the Caribbean today.
- The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on autophagy, the process of cells recycling parts, errors in which can create a host of diseases.
- UK PM Theresa May says Britain will begin the process of withdrawing from the European Union starting in early 2017, including immigration curbs.
- The changeover of control of the internet's root zones has been moved to international group ICANN from the US despite a last-minute effort by Republicans to scrap the deal.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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