Portal:Current events/2012 October 13

• President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is shot. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Deutsche Welle)
• In response to multiple rockets being fired across the border, Israel launched four air strikes. Two militants from a Salafist jihadist group are killed and another wounded in the northern Gaza Strip. (BBC)
• A suicide bombing at a market in the Pakistani town of Darra Adam Khel kills at least 15 people. (BBC)
• Mexican Drug War: The Mexican Army kills Manuel Torres Félix, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. (Fox News)
• Insurgency in the North Caucasus: A Russian army soldier and three Islamic militants die in a skirmish in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. (RIA)

• Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild, painted in 1994 and formerly owned by rock star Eric Clapton, sells for $34 million - an auction record for a work by a living artist. (BBC)

• Reuters reports on the basis of "people familiar with the matter" that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is close to bringing an antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of the search engine market. (Reuters)

• Residents of Los Angeles watch in awe as U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour inches through the city on a giant trolley, bound for a museum. Hundreds of trees in its path are chopped down. (BBC)

• Syria announces Turkish civilian flights over Syrian territory are banned, days after Turkey intercepted a Syrian flight that was suspected to be carrying illegal cargo. (BBC)

• The UK's Department of Health is to investigate the decision to appoint the broadcaster Sir James Savile as head of a taskforce overseeing the high security Broadmoor Hospital, a facility for the criminally insane, following recent allegations of sexual abuse. He was appointed to the position in the late 1980s. (BBC)

• An Africa Cup of Nations qualification match between Senegal and Ivory Coast is abandoned due to rioting at the Stade Leopold Senghor in Dakar. (BBC)
• Despite universal condemnation from the print media, television analysts and fans, Ireland soccer manager Giovanni Trapattoni refuses to resign following last night's humiliation at the hands of Germany in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C. (The Daily Telegraph) (BBC)
• Sligo Rovers claim their first league title in nearly forty years with an historic 3-2 win over St Patrick's Athletic at the Showgrounds. (The Irish Times)