Portal:Current events/2018 September 28
September 28, 2018 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Rosa strengthens to a category 4 hurricane in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to affect parts of the coastlines of southwestern Mexico, the Baja California Peninsula, and Southern California. (NBC News)
- Air Niugini Flight 73 lands short at Chuuk International Airport and settles in a shallow lagoon. All passengers and crew are successfully evacuated. (ABC)
- 2018 Sulawesi earthquake
- Indonesia is hit by a tsunami after being hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, resulting in at least one death and entire families being reported missing. (News.com) (CBS News)
- A USAF F-35 jet crashes in coastal South Carolina making this the first crash of the U.S. military's newest and most expensive aircraft. (CBS News)
Religion
- Catholic sexual abuse cases in Chile
- The Roman Catholic Church has announces that it has defrocked Father Fernando Karadima, a priest at the center of a sex abuse scandal in Chile. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Facebook says 50 million user accounts affected by security breach. (The Guardian)