Disasters and accidents

More than 5.5 million people in Florida, United States, are currently under evacuation orders as Hurricane Milton weakens into a category 4 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in the early hours of Thursday. (The New York Times) (CBS News)

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/weather/hurricane-milton-florida-evacuations.html
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-milton-florida-landfall-path-storm/

Disasters and accidents

Several tornadoes are reported in Florida, including along Interstate 75, ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. (BBC News)

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr753r34n3rt

Disasters and accidents

The Tropicana Field roof in St. Petersburg is damaged by winds caused from Hurricane Milton. (Tampa Bay Times)

• https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/10/hurricane-milton-tears-open-tropicana-fields-roof/

Law and crime

Bolivia formally joins South Africa's case in the International Court of Justice regarding Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip as genocide, stating it "has a responsibility to condemn the crime of genocide". (Al Jazeera)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/9/bolivia-joins-south-africas-icj-genocide-case-against

Science and technology

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is jointly awarded to British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction, and to American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for his work on computational protein design. (The New York Times) (Nobel Prize)

• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html?
• https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/