October 21, 2014 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Taliban insurgency
- A Kabul roadside bomb kills at least four Afghan National Security Force soldiers with six other soldiers and six civilians injured. (AP)
International relations
- Poland's parliamentary speaker, Radoslaw Sikorski, says that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland's then leader Donald Tusk in 2008 that they divide Ukraine between themselves. Sikorski later retracted the claim stating he had "mis-remembered". (Reuters via Yahoo News)(Daily Mail)
Law and crime
- A South African court sentences Oscar Pistorius to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (Mail and Guardian), (NBC)
- North Korea releases American Jeffrey Edward Fowle five months after detaining him for leaving a Bible at a hotel. (CNN)
Sports
- In baseball, the 2014 World Series begins with the San Francisco Giants defeating the Kansas City Royals 7–1 in KC's Kauffman Stadium. (AFP via Sports Fan), (AP) (MLB.com)