October 29, 2013 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2013 Tiananmen Square incident: Police in China name two suspects from Xinjiang linked to an apparent suicide attack car crash outside the Forbidden City on Tiananmen Square in the capital Beijing. (BBC)
- Syrian civil war:
- Four French hostages held in Niger by an Al-Qaeda offshoot since 2010 are released. (France 24)
Business and economy
- The Nasdaq Composite and NASDAQ-100 stock indices froze for an hour before resuming at around 1 PM EST. (CNBC)
- Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- St Jude storm:
- At least 13 people are confirmed dead after the storm hits northern Europe. (ABC News Australia)
- The United Nations confirms an outbreak of polio in Syria. (CBC)
- At least three people are dead after a dust storm causes an accident on Interstate 10 near Picacho Peak, Arizona, United States. (ABC)
Law and crime
- Three judges in Egypt chairing the trial of the leaders Muslim Brotherhood step down, citing reasons of conscience. (Al Jazeera)
- Two Kenyan soldiers are jailed for looting during the attack on the Westgate shopping centre attack in September. (BBC)
- The leader of the Boeremag and 23 others are sentenced to 35 years in jail in South Africa for conspiring to kill former president Nelson Mandela. (News24)
- A man shoots and kills five people and then commits suicide at a house in Greenwood County, South Carolina, U.S. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- Marilyn Tavenner, the Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, becomes the first Obama administration official to apologise for the troubled roll out of the healthcare.gov website as part of the Affordable Care Act or "Obamacare" system. (CNN)