A massive car bomb outside the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf killed over 85 people, including senior Shia cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, deepening Iraq's sectarian crisis.

A series of extreme solar flares and coronal mass ejections, dubbed the 'Halloween Storms,' peak and disrupt satellites, power grids, and airline routes worldwide.

U.S. soldiers pulled Saddam Hussein, disheveled and bearded, from an underground hiding hole near his hometown of Tikrit, ending a nine-month manhunt.