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Zambia’s president died on Tuesday night, after receiving treatment at the King Edward VI in London. Michael Sata, alternatively known as ‘King Cobra’, was 77. This occurred 4 days after Zambia celebrated its 50 years of Independence. More on the story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29813612

Our humble LSE has placed 10th in a list which measures where billionaires are most likely to have studied around the world. The London School of Economics and Political Science was the only UK university to rank in the ‘Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census’. The university stands in company with the University of Pennsylvania, the university of Mumbai and Lomonosov Moscow State University:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29786836

‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’: embarrassingly, the veil of infallibility has been lifted from NASA as it has just experienced its first rocket launch failure. The $200 million ‘Antares’ cargo rocket was attempting to provide supplies to the International Space Station. This is the 5th time it has been launched, but the first time it has failed to reach its destination:http://qz.com/288490/a-spectacular-explosion-marks-the-first-failure-of-nasas-commercial-rocket-program/

150 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have arrived in Syria to assist the Syrian Kurdish fight against the so called ‘Islamic State’. They were sent off with cheering supporters and arrived in Turkey on Wednesday. This comes as the Turkish PM declared that this ‘was the only way to help Kobani as other countries do not want to use ground troops’:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_SYRIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-28-21-51-16

The Roundhouse prepares to host tonight’s Mercury Prize. The favourite to win the £20,000 prize? FKA Twigs has the odds in her favour, closely followed by Kate Tempest. Previous winners include alt-j and The XX:http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/29/fka-twigs-favourite-to-win-the-2014-mercury-prize

10 people have died and a further 200 people have reportedly gone missing in a central Sri Lankan mudslide. The disaster, caused by heavy monsoon rains, has also large parts of national highways and 140 houses:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/dead-hundreds-missing-sri-lanka-mudslides

The Disasters Emergency Committee is to air an Ebola appeal on Thursday. The committee, which appeals exclusively for natural disasters, has turned its attention to the urgent Ebola crisis which continues to ravage parts of west Africa. The UK’s main broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky, are to carry the appeal tomorrow:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/29/ebola-crisis-disaster-emergency-committee-appeal-public-help