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Daily Bulletin 02.10.2017 | 18:30 UTC
News
+++ Las Vegas shooting: 58 people dead, 500 injured - live updates +++
Police say at least 58 people have been killed in a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. More than 500 were hurt. Police report the lone 64-year-old suspect killed himself as officers stormed his hotel room.
Puigdemont urges Spain to withdraw police from Catalonia
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont says his cabinet will create a commission to investigate claims of police violence during Sunday's independence referendum. He has ordered Spanish police out of the semiautonomous region.
Abdelkader Merah: Brother of Toulouse terrorist goes on trial
The older brother of a French extremist has gone on trial accused of helping his sibling prepare a 2012 terror rampage in Toulouse. Over nine days, Mohammed Merah killed several Jewish children and two Muslim soldiers.
Facebook to give Russia-linked ads to US Congress
The US-based Facebook has pledged to meet US lawmakers and provide them with copies of some 3,000 political ads that ran during the last year's election. Company representatives say ads may be linked to a Russian firm.
Over 100,000 stranded after Monarch airline shuts down
The UK is struggling to repatriate some 110,000 people after the country's Monarch airline stopped operating its flights. The government asked the aviation authority to provide planes to transport British citizens home.
World
EU dodges Catalonia independence question
The European Commission has not taken an official position on the independence referendum in Catalonia. But now some European lawmakers are calling for it to mediate. DW's Bernd Riegert reports from Brussels.
Science
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for discoveries of mechanisms for biological clocks
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three Americans for their discoveries about the body's rhythms. The researchers isolated a gene that controls the normal daily biological rhythm.
Environment
climate refugees
Climate change drives Solomon Islands' people of the sea ashore
The inhabitants of Lau Lagoon in Solomon Islands have lived in harmony with nature for generations. Now their entire way of life is vanishing beneath the waves.
Sports
Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery out for the rest of the year with ligament damage
Bayern Munich's new coach will have to do without Franck Ribery until the end of 2017, after the club confirmed that the knee injury he suffered on Sunday was serious. Ribery will join Manuel Neuer on the sidelines.
RB Leipzig's Timo Werner out of Germany internationals
RB Leipzig striker Timo Werner is out of Germany's final two World Cup qualifiers against Northern Ireland and Azebaijan as he continues to suffer from an unusual injury. But the noise in Istanbul was not a factor.
Mats Hummels denies being the Bayern Munich 'king slayer'
The fallout from the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti continues at Bayern Munich, with Mats Hummels denying he plotted to oust the Italian coach. Hummels was widely reported to be one of five players who wanted Ancelotti out.

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