September 15, 2017 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2017 Parsons Green bombing
- An explosion on a train at the Parsons Green tube station in London injures 29. Scotland Yard is treating the incident as a terrorist attack. (The Guardian) (BBC)
Arts and culture
- Oldest living people
- Jamaican Violet Mosse-Brown, the world's oldest person, dies in Montego Bay at age 117. (UPI)
Business and economy
- Economy of California
- Key housing bills pass in California, the U.S. state with the highest number of people suffering from homelessness and poverty. (The Sacramento Bee) (Los Angeles Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
- In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the island of Barbuda is fully depopulated for the first time in 300 years. (CNN)
- 2017 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Doksuri (Maring) hits central Vietnam killing one person and injuring ten. (AP)
- Crocodile attack
- A journalist for the British newspaper Financial Times is killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka. (The Chicago Tribune)
Health and medicine
- Fight against hunger
- The World Health Organization says that hunger around the world has risen as a result of war and climate change. (The World Health Organization)
International relations
- 2017 North Korea crisis
- September 2017 North Korean missile launch over Japan
- A North Korean missile flies over Hokkaido, Japan, triggering the J-Alert system, following a similar event on 29 August. (Bloomberg)
- South Korea responds with its own missile firing just six minutes after the North's test was detected. (Yonhap)
- September 2017 North Korean missile launch over Japan
Law and crime
- Shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith
- The ex-police officer involved in a fatal 2011 shooting of a black man in St. Louis, Missouri is acquitted of all charges related to the case. (DW)
- Hundreds of people protest the decision. After some protests become violent, 10 police officers are injured and 32 protesters are arrested. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- Politics of Iceland
- Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson is criticised after his father wrote a letter recommending that a convicted child molester be pardoned. The Bright Future party withdraws from the governing coalition, triggering its collapse. (BBC)
- Philippine Drug War
- Around 1,200 members of the Philippine National Police in the suburb of Caloocan are fired over allegations of crimes attributed to the police. (U.S. News and World Report)
- Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2017
- The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament votes to go ahead with the planned independence referendum, scheduled to take place on 25 September, 2017. (BBC)
Science and technology
- Cassini retirement
- After 20 years "floating" the Solar System, the Cassini space probe to the Saturn system ends the mission with a controlled fall into the atmosphere of the planet. (BBC)