Portal:Current events/2014 October 6

• ISIL prepares to establish itself in Libya and reports emerge that they are already in the city of Derna. (Al Arabiya)
• Kashmir conflict
  • India and Pakistan trade fire across the borders resulting in five civilian deaths in India and four in Pakistan. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)

• Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. agrees to sell its most prestigious hotel, Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria, for $1.95 billion to Chinese insurance company Anbang Insurance Group. (MarketWatch)
• American IT company Hewlett-Packard announces plans to split in two and shed 5,000 jobs. (Sci-Tech Today)

• Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
  • A Spanish nurse becomes the first person to be infected with the Ebola virus outside West Africa. (New York Times)
• Enterovirus 68
  • First death to be blamed on Enterovirus 68. Claims the life of a 4 year old named Eli Waller. (CBC)

• 2014 Pacific typhoon season
  • At least four people are dead as Typhoon Phanfone makes landfall in central Japan. (AFP via ABC News Australia)

• The European Parliament rejects Hungary's EU commissioner-designate Tibor Navracsics as unsuitable for the education and culture commissioner post; he may still be given a different post in the commission, causing a reshuffle. (BBC)

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • British neuroscientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian scientists May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (Huffington Post)