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NASA’s Terra satellite photographed Typhoon Phanfone in the western Pacific Ocean on Friday, Oct. 3,2014 as it headed toward the Japanese mainland. (Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Dangerous typhoon bears down on Tokyo

A powerful typhoon is bearing down on Japan’s largest city after killing at least one U.S. airman and leaving two others missing, officials said.

USA TODAY

Deadly typhoon sweeps across Japan

Euronews

Global biodiversity targets won’t be met by 2020

World leaders are failing in their pledge to cut the rate at which wildlife lose their homes, according to the first ever progress report on targets to slow biodiversity loss by the end of the decade.

Guardian

Hundreds of calls, but no new US Ebola cases

The CDC is getting 800 calls a day from health care facilities and other sources with concerns that a sick individual might have Ebola symptoms, up from 50 calls daily before the first U.S. case was diagnosed in Dallas.

Politico

Family relocated from Ebola patient’s apartment

USA TODAY

Navy’s self-guided, unmanned patrol boats make debut

Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they‘re protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy’s fleet within a year, defense officials say.

ABC News

Burned bodies found in south Mexico grave

Security forces investigating the role of municipal police in clashes in this southern city have found burned human remains in mass graves on the edge of town.

Houston Chronicle

Missing students and Mexico’s worst massacre

Al Jazeera

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Mass graves found in Mexico, near place where 43 students went missing

NPR

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

As US charitable contributions grow, corporate philanthropy slips

Charitable contributions in the U.S. grew 4.4 percent in 2013 but still haven’t rebounded to levels achieved before the economic recession. At the same time corporate giving fell by nearly 2%, to $17.9 billion.

Forbes

As wealthy give smaller share of income to charity, middle class digs deeper

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The church game $500 to every member to do good in the world

After receiving an unexpected windfall of $1.6 million, a small Chicago church took a giant leap of faith: it chose to give a chunk of the money away to congregants, with a modest request for how it was to be spent.

Huffington Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

British Prime Minister David Cameron orders spy chiefs to hunt down ‘Jihadi John’

Prime Minister David Cameron has asked his spy chiefs to find Islamic State executioner ‘Jihadi John’ so that he could dispatch special forces to kill or capture the masked man who beheaded the latest British hostage.

Times of India

Search crews harden resolve to find Hannah Graham

Police Chief Timothy Longo said that law enforcement is aggressively searching areas surrounding Charlottesville for Hannah Graham, who disappeared on Sept. 13.

Christian Science Monitor

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Hong Kong democracy protesters start to pull back

Pro-democracy protesters remained in a tense stalemate with the Hong Kong government late after authorities warned they were determined to get the Asian financial hub back to work after more than a week of unrest.

Reuters

Global support for Hong Kong student protest intensifies

TIME

Brazil’s Rousseff, Neves race for support in tight election runoff

A competitive runoff campaign for Brazil’s presidency kicked off with incumbent Dilma Rousseff and her pro-business rival Aecio Neves racing to gain new supporters among those frustrated with a stagnant economy.

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

German factory orders slump most since 2009: Economy ministry

German factory orders plunged the most since 2009, underlining the risk of a slowdown in Europe’s largest economy. Orders fell 5.7 percent in August, the Economy Ministry in Berlin said.

Bloomberg

BP calls for retrial of Gulf oil spill ruling of up to $18B in damages

BP has asked a New Orleans court to amend a judge’s ruling that the company could be liable for as much as $18 billion in damages levied for its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, or possibly to grant it a new trial.

The Telegraph

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

World‘s 1st ’solar battery‘ captures and stores Sun’s energy

Researchers have created a “solar battery” by combining the energy-harvesting panel with the energy-storing medium at a microscopic level.

NBCNews.com

Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS

Anglo-American John O‘Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain’s internal positioning system, helping humans find their way.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Poor effort: Government can still make a difference on poverty

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Germany’s energy model can save the world

Al Jazeera

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A 1st responder to the fear of Ebola

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

‘She gives me hope:’ Mom’s life saved by stranger who donated kidney

Andrea Kringstein turned to a non-profit website called MatchingDonors.com, a database where patients are introduced to people willing to donate. They don’t make any money by donating organs or tissues.

TODAY.com

Iowa man’s recovery could be a medical breakthrough

Russ Evans was a quadriplegic 10 weeks ago, but now the former athlete can move his feet, fingers and arms after receiving a potentially breakthrough drug for spinal injuries.

WTOC

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Project C.U.R.E sends $2.5M in supplies to Ebola-stricken West Africa

Containers with medical supplies, including 330,000 medical exam gloves weighing a full ton, are headed to West Africa suffering under the Ebola virus outbreak, courtesy of Centennial-based Project C.U.R.E.

Denver Business Journal

Nonprofits seeking help to rebuild blind resident’s home in Hollywood

A West Ashley church and a Johns Island nonprofit are partnering to build a house for a legally blind man and his mother whose home was destroyed by fire five years ago.

Charleston Post & Courier

ENVIRONMENT

Walruses forced ashore as sea ice melts

An estimated 35,000 walruses packed a stretch of Alaskan shoreline late last month, a phenomenon that’s being chalked up to diminishing sea ice and alarmingly warm ocean temperatures.

Sci-Tech Today

Fish failing to adapt to rising carbon dioxide levels in ocean

Rising carbon dioxide levels in oceans adversely change the behaviour of fish through generations, raising the possibility that marine species may never fully adapt to their changed environment, research has found.

Guardian

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The astronomic costs of reversing climate change

Wall Street Journal

Photo of the Day

Gardening in urban areas takes advantage of vertical space, with solar powered water pumps that take all the “waste” from the fish pond that ends up being “food” for our edible plants. (Photo by Kevin Krejci)

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