18 September 2014 Current Affairs
- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Islamic State release a video purporting to be from British journalist John Cantlie as propaganda. (Reuters)
- The United States Senate passes a budget measure authorising President Barack Obama to equip and train moderate rebels to fight ISIL in Syria. (Washington Examiner)
- International relations
- Russian military intervention in Ukraine
- The President of Ukraine visits the United States to seek assistance in combating separatists in eastern Ukraine. (BBC)
- Health
- Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
- The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon announces the creation of an emergency mission to respond to the virus which has killed over 2,500 people in West Africa . (Bloomberg via Washington Post)
- Law and crime
- Australian police mount raids in the cities of Sydney and Brisbane on alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sympathisers based on intelligence claims that they were planning a public execution in Australia with fifteen people arrested. (News Limited)
- Eight people have been shot dead including six children in the small American town of Bell, Florida. (AAP via The Australian)
- Politics and elections
- Scottish independence referendum, 2014
- Voters in Scotland go to the polls to vote on a referendum on independence with the No campaign winning. (Reuters), (The Telegraph), (BBC)
- German president Joachim Gauck welcomes state officials to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to address demographic change in Europeand commemorate 25 years of the Peaceful Revolution. (Official press release)
- Science
- Ultracompact dwarf galaxy M60-UCD1 is revealed to be the smallest known galaxy to have a supermassive black hole at its centre.(Washington Post via Sydney Morning Herald)
