• Residents of Pahoa, Hawaii, begin evacuating ahead of an impending lava flow from the Kīlauea volcano. (BBC News)
• 18 miners are trapped in a coal mine accident in Ermenek in Karaman province, Turkey. (ABC News)

• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  • Australia issues a blanket ban on issuing visas for residents of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, the countries worst affected by the Ebola epidemic. (Reuters)

• Zambian media reports that President Michael Sata has died while receiving medical care in London. (New Vision)

• An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in the U.S. state of Virginia. The loss includes five thousand pounds of cargo. (The Baltimore Sun)

• In baseball, the Kansas City Royals defeat the San Francisco Giants 10–0 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, in the sixth game of the World Series. The Royals tie the series at 3–3, setting up a decisive final game on October 29 in Kansas City. (AP via ESPN)