October 10, 2016 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- A suicide bombing kills at least 14 people, mostly police officers, in Lashkargah, Helmand Province, as Taliban insurgents advance upon the Afghan city. (The Voice of America) (Reuters)
- A gunman kills 14 people at a Shi'ite shrine in Kabul on a holy day. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
- Rohingya insurgency in Western Myanmar
- A series of attacks in Rakhine State kill nine police officers and eight militants. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- Polish film director and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award Andrzej Wajda dies at the age of 90. (BBC)
Business and economy
- British-born American Oliver Hart and Finnish Bengt Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on the science of contracts. (BBC)
- Samsung recalls and suspends production of its reformulated-version of Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to the same persistent problem with battery fires and explosions. (The Japan Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Matthew
- The death toll in the United States from Hurricane Matthew rises to 27 with at least five people still missing in North Carolina. Governor Pat McCrory warns that the state's swollen rivers are still rising with flooding continuing to pose threats to life and property this week. The storm, downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone yesterday, moves away from the U.S. coastline on an east-northeast track. (The Washington Post), (The National Hurricane Center), (GPS locator)
- Matthew's death toll in Haiti rises to at least one thousand, with victims being buried in mass graves. An unknown number of people remain missing and authorities report that cholera is spreading in the hardest hit-areas in the country's southwest. (AP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)