Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held captive for 88 days.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.

Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.

New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunitio...

An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii.

The Irish Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.

President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.

The Motherland Calls (depicted in coat of arms), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.