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- The African Union stops cooperation with the International Criminal Court because it charged Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with war crimes. (BBC)
- Three people die and over a dozen are injured in riots after a dead pig is thrown into an under-construction mosque in Mysore, India. (CNN)
- John Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews in Treblinka extermination camp. (RTÉ)
- Energy ministers of Algeria, Niger and Nigeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline. (Reuters) (Bloomberg) (BBC)
- Flooding affects parts of County Mayo and County Galway in Ireland. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Burma, meeting junta leader Senior General Than Shwe and calling for the release of political prisoners. (BBC) (Bangkok Post)
- Two Iranian staff working for the British embassy in Tehran will face trial over allegedly inciting protests. (BBC)
- Three dinosaur species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae—are discovered in Australia. (BBC) (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Syria invites United States President Barack Obama to the Damascus summit. (Sky News)
- Algerian raï music star Cheb Mami is jailed for five years in France for trying to force his former partner to have an abortion. (BBC) (IOL) (Reuters)
- Manuel Pinho, Portugal's Economy Minister, resigns after performing a cuckold gesture at an opposition MP. (BBC)
- North Korea broadcasts its first ever beer commercial, for Taedonggang beer. (BBC) (The Los Angeles Times)
- Two more people die in Viareggio, Italy, following the train explosion, bringing the death toll to 21. (RTÉ)
- Six people, including three children, are killed after a fire in a high rise residential tower block in Camberwell, south London, England. (BBC)
- Russia opens a route for the United States to fly arms to Afghanistan. (The New York Times)
- American politician Sarah Palin, current Governor of Alaska and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate, announces her resignation as Governor, effective July 26. (Fox News) (CNN)
- Two aid workers, including one Irish woman, with the charity GOAL are kidnapped by an armed gang in Sudan's Darfur region. (RTÉ)
- Thirteen people are injured after the Paris to Cahors train derails near Limoges, France. (RTÉ)
- A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico. (IOL)
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- The Cherokee County killer claims his fifth victim in South Carolina, USA.(CNN)
- Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, calls for the immediate release of two aid workers who were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region. (RTÉ)
- Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali calls on homosexuals to "repent and be changed" and says the Church of England will not be "rolled over by culture". (The Daily Telegraph)
- North Korea test fires seven more missiles into the Sea of Japan. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Korea Times) (Xinhua)
- Torrential rain forces over 150,000 people from their homes, topples hundreds of houses and punches a hole in the spillway of a dam in southern China. (IOL)
- The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is denied access to meet detained National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi while on a visit to Burma. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Bangkok Post)
- 12 militants are killed in an air raid in northwestern Pakistan. (Xinhua)
- Nine Chechen policeman are killed after their vehicle is attacked in neighbouring Ingushetia, southern Russia. (BBC) (The Hindu)
- The Iranian state-owned newspaper Kayhan calls for Mir-Hossein Mousavi to stand trial. (The Los Angeles Times)
- 35 people are arrested in Mazandran, northern Iran, during post-election protests. (Press TV)
- Serena Williams wins the women's singles at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships after defeating her sister, Venus Williams. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Three people die as a result of contracting swine flu in New Zealand, the country's first flu deaths. (IOL) (The Irish Times)
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- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- A public memorial for Michael Jackson takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with over 17,000 viewing in Los Angeles, and millions more viewing around the world. (AP via Google News)
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon begins his two-day visit to Ireland.(RTÉ)
- Police shoot dead the Cherokee County serial killer, identified as Patrick Tracy Burris, after he fired several times at the police. (BBC)
- Tunisian police charge nine men—including two air force officers—with plotting several deaths during joint military exercises with the US. (Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
- A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings is unveiled in the city's Hyde Park. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- An institutional child abuse museum is suggested in Ireland by the Labour Party's Ruairi Quinn, with Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe criticising the Opposition on the issue. (RTÉ)
- The United Nations Security Council condemns the recent missile launches by North Korea. (Xinhua)
- The United Nations says around 204,000 people have fled violence in Mogadishu, Somalia as a result of a militant offensive against government forces. (CNN)
- Two bombs explode in the southern Philippines, killing two and injuring 53. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Bloomberg)
- Pope Benedict XVI calls for a new financial world order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for a common good. (The Times of India) (Associated Press)
- 12 people die in a U.S. missile strike on a training camp run by Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is to meet with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Reuters)
- Iraq bans planned group visits to Saddam Hussein's grave. (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama addresses graduates in Moscow, Russia. (BBC) (The New York Times) (RIA Novosti)
- A Mikoyan MiG-29 of the Serbian military crashes at Batajnica Air Base near Belgrad, killing the pilot and one soldier on the ground. (Sky News)
- Iranian opposition leaders call for the release of people who demonstrated in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election. (New Straits Times)
- Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court challenge a tribunal's decision not to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide in Darfur. (Associated Press)
- Al Franken is sworn in as a U.S. Senator, the 60th caucusing with the Democratic Party which is a filibuster-proof majority. (The New York Times)
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- The European Commission fines GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline. (Financial Times) (The Wall Street Journal) (Bloomberg) (Reuters)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen announces that the second referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon in Ireland will be held on October 2. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il makes a rare public appearance to mark the 15th anniversary of his father's death. (BBC) (CTV) (The Guardian) (MSNBC) (The Times)
- The 35th G8 Summit begins in L'Aquila, Italy. (BBC News) (CNN)
- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- Debris and bodies from Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, wash up on Mafia Island, Tanzania. (BBC)
- Indonesian presidential election, 2009
- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's trial on sodomy charges of engaging in sexual intercourse with a male aide is delayed after his main defence lawyer falls ill. (BBC)
- July 2009 Mindanao bombings
- Strikes by 70,000 workers in South Africa halt work on the World Cup 2010 stadiums. (BBC) (AFP)
- South Korea says North Korea is behind a number of cyber attacks on the websites of government agencies, banks and businesses in South Korea and the United States. (Yonhap) (BBC) (The Times)
- Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti agree to talks under mediation by Costa Rica. (The Guardian)
- Iran says two thirds of protesters have already been released and another 100 will be freed in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election. (Reuters)
- Germany defends its response to the stabbing of pregnant Egyptian Marwa El-Sherbini, saying Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet the Egyptian President to discuss the affair. (BBC) (CBC) (CNN) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times)
- Four Rio Tinto executives accused of espionage are detained by Chinese Authorities amid iron ore negotiations. (News.com.au)
- Two car bombs blow up in Mosul, the second of them killing at least nine people. (BBC)
- Undercover investigators smuggle bomb-making materials into government buildings in the United States, assembling bombs within, on ten occasions. (BBC)
- The Guardian claims that rival English newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid, paid £1 million in court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in phone tapping celebrities and politicians. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- It is claimed that the drug rapamycin, discovered in the soil of Easter Island in the 1970s, may help to fight the ageing process. (BBC)
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- Twelve European companies launch the €400 billion Desertec project to build solar thermal power stations in North Africa. (Bloomberg)
- Burma announces it will release an unspecified number of political prisoners to allow them to take part in the 2010 general election. (BBC) (Bangkok Post) (Reuters)
- Henry Okah, a guerrilla leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is released from detainment after accepting an amnesty offered by the Nigerian government. (BBC)
- Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. (BBC)
- At least 16 people have died, including eight children, in the city of Mian Channu, Pakistan, after a bomb blast in a school. (CNN) (The Times of India)
- Greek police use bulldozers to completely clear a sprawling migrant camp that had been in place in the port town of Patras for over a decade. (Sky News)
- The United Kingdom halts some arms sales to Israel following the Gaza conflict. (The Times) (Haaretz)
- Ürümqi police shoot dead two armed suspects and injure another, all being from the Uyghur ethnic group. (BBC) (AP via Google News) (Xinhua) (ChinaDaily)
- The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta claims an attack on a oil depot in Lagos, Nigeria. (Forbes) (Vanguard)
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev makes his first visit to South Ossetia. (RIA Novosti) (Bangkok Post)
- John Demjanjuk is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder in World War II at a court in Germany. (Deutsche Welle) (AP)
- An explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills a police chief and injures four others. The Taliban are the suspected culprits of the attack. (The New York Times)
- U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for United States Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor begin. (CNN)
- Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Amin al-Hafez dies at age 83. (AP via Google News)
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- Malaysian opposition party PAS wins the Manek Urai by-election against government-led Barisan Nasional. (The Straits Times)
- Jerzy Buzek, former Prime Minister of Poland, is elected the 28th President of the European Parliament, succeeding Hans-Gert Pöttering. (BBC) (AHN) (AFP)
- The World Health Organization reports that yields for an H1N1 virus vaccine are lower than expected. (CTV)
- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- Two foreign nationals, believed to be French, are kidnapped by gunmen after a hotel is stormed in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- 323 people – 289 Saudis and 41 foreigners – are sentenced at a court in Saudi Arabia for links to anti-government groups. (Al Jazeera)
- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso survives a vote of no-confidence. (Mainichi Daily News) (Associated Press)
- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor takes the stand in his own defence at his trial. (Liberian Inquirer) (IOL)
- 240 people are arrested in a series of riots in France on the eve of the Bastille Day celebrations. (BBC) (France 24)
- Talks on immigration between the United States and Cuba, suspended since 2003, will resume. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- The Lithuanian parliament overcomes the President's veto and passes a law which forbids propaganda of homosexual, bisexual and polygamous relations, in order to protect minors from detriment to their development. At the same time the law forbids any mocking and defiance on the basis of sexual orientation. (Delfi) (Washington Post)
- Canada imposes visa requirements to come into effect on July 14 on travellers from Mexico and the Czech Republic after a big jump in refugee claims from these two countries. (BBC)
- An Egyptian civil servant is jailed for three years for insulting President Hosni Mubarak in a poem. (BBC)
- The 11th Micronesian Chief Executives’ Summit (MCES) of Micronesian leaders opens in Majuro, Marshall Islands. (Pacific News Center)
- Judy Chu wins the 32nd congressional district special election, becoming the first Chinese American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. (Los Angeles Times)
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- The Episcopal Church of the United States votes to overturn a three-year ban on the appointment of gay bishops. (BBC)
- The Catholic Church praises Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince after previously accusing the books of promoting witchcraft and the occult. (Irish Independent)
- Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, flying from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board, crashes in Iran shortly after takeoff. (BBC) (Press TV)
- A 7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes off South Island, New Zealand, generating brief fears of a small tsunami. (Associated Press) (New Zealand Herald) (RTÉ) (USGS)
- China's foreign exchange reserves have reached a record of US$ 2.13 trillion, which is more than twice the size of Japan's—the second-biggest holder. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- China urges its citizens in Algeria to "take extra care" after reports circulate of a militant group's plans to avenge recent deaths of Muslim Uyghurs. (BBC)
- Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, the world's oldest new mother, is announced to have died of cancer aged 69, three years after giving birth. (BBC)
- Six people, including two traffic police, are killed and sixteen people are injured in a suicide attack in Anbar, Iraq. (RTÉ)
- A group of soldiers who took part in Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive" rules of engagement. (BBC)
- Two people are killed and five are injured in the explosion at a Total petrochemicals plant in Carling, France. (France 24) (RTÉ)
- Chansa Kabwela, editor of Zambia's biggest-selling newspaper The Post, is charged with distributing obscene materials relating to a health sector crisis. (BBC) (IOL) (Sowetan)
- The British government opts not to end the Common Travel Area between the United Kingdom and Ireland. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-127 to the International Space Station. (BBC)
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- A Ugandan study finds circumcising men who already have HIV does not protect their female partners from the virus. (BBC)
- A United Nations Security Council committee imposes further sanctions on North Korea. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Japan Today)
- China's GDP grows 7.9% year by year in the second quarter of 2009, despite the global economic crisis. (Xinhua) (China Daily) (BBC)
- Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Vice President of Iran, resigns for unknown reasons. (ISNA) (BBC) (Jerusalem Post) (Xinhua)
- Former South Korean President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kim Dae-jung is in an intensive care unit in a Seoul hospital being treated for pneumonia. (Yonhap) (BBC)
- President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan announces the latest stage of a plan to channel drainage water from the country's cotton fields through desert. (BBC)
- Iceland votes by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of debate. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Independent) (The Telegraph)
- The Holy See acknowledges Oscar Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its hardline stance against the poet. (The Daily Telegraph) (The Guardian)
- Interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti says he is willing to step down, only if Jose Manuel Zelaya ceases his claim to the presidency. (CNN) (AFP)
- Omar Bongo's son, Ali-Ben Bongo, is chosen to stand as the ruling party's presidential candidate in Gabon. (BBC)
- Chinese athletes withdraw from the opening ceremony of the World Games but say they will compete. (BBC)
- A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurs off the coast of Papua New Guinea but causes little damage. (RTÉ)
- The 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, United States is renamed the Willis Tower. (BBC)
- The black boxes from crashed Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 in Iran are recovered. (Bernama) (Press TV) (Press Association)
- Zac Sunderland, at the age of 17, becomes the youngest person to sail around the world alone. (BBC)
- Madonna's concert in Marseille, France is cancelled after her stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine. (AFP) (BBC) (Boston Globe) (CBC) (Japan Today) (MSNBC) (Pravda) (The Telegraph)
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- Footage of FARC leader Jorge Briceño saying he financed Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's 2006 campaign is broadcast on Colombian television. (BBC) (AFP)
- Timothy Kirkhope MEP defends alleged homophobic remarks made by European Conservatives and Reformists' leader Michał Kamiński in a television interview. (BBC)
- Pope Benedict XVI slips in the bath in his mountain chalet and is treated for a fractured wrist in Aosta, Italy. (BBC) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (The Telegraph)
- A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built in Marseille for Madonna's forthcoming tour to France. (AFP) (BBC) (Daily Mail) (The Guardian) (The Times)
- Irish President Mary McAleese announces her intention to convene a meeting of the Council of State on 22 July. (The Irish Times)
- Brazil complains of 64 containers with over 1,400 tonnes of British used condoms, syringes and rotting nappies located in three of the country's ports. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News)
- Two journalists from South Africa and the United Kingdom are due in court after being allegedly attacked and then arrested while filming seal hunters in Namibia. (BBC)
- Hong Kong appoints a new chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. (SCMP)
- Ruslan Balayev, Ingushetia's minister for sport, is shot dead in his car. (The Irish Times)
- Ghana is set to receive a US$600 million three-year loan from the International Monetary Fund. (BBC) (Reuters)
- The World Bank approves a US$76 million loan for Mozambique. (Reuters Africa)
- An argument between the National Portrait Gallery and online encyclopedia Wikipedia over use of images escalates. (BBC)
- Bombings at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others. (AP) (Herald Sun) (Reuters) (The Times)
- Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani holds Friday prayers in Tehran and calls for the release of political prisoners from the election protests. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Press TV)
- At least 14 people, including 11 Serbian tourists, are killed and at least 10 tourists are injured in a bus collision with a lorry on a road near Port Safaga, Egypt. (BBC) (Jang Group) (Reuters UK) (Reuters Africa)
- 22 prominent figures, including Poland's Lech Wałęsa and the Czech Republic's Václav Havel, warn in an open letter to the Barack Obama administration against developing closer ties with Russia. (The New York Times)
- BBC staff's expenses claims are revealed to include candles, flowers, champagne and a hamper. (The Daily Telegraph)
- 49 members of a Sicilian Mafia syndicate are jailed in Italy in what the government describes as a landmark case. (BBC)
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- China produces a giant panda using frozen sperm. (BBC) (The Irish Times) (The Washington Post) (Xinhua)
- At least six people die as a Croatian high-speed train travelling from Zagreb to Split derails 30km from its destination. (AP via Google News)
- Chloe Smith wins the Norwich North by-election, the first British constituency by-election since the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, and gains the Conservative Party a seat held by Labour for the past 12 years. (The Guardian)
- 20 people are killed in a bus crash near Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (BBC)
- The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is declared as the winner of the Indonesian presidential election. (AP via Google News)
- Wildfires in the north east of Spain claim the lives of six firefighters in that region. (Sky News)
- The trial of Burmese National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi nears its end. (Jakarta Globe) (The Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is urged to dismiss his choice of Vice President, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. (Associated Press) (Press TV)
- Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes in Mashhad, Iran, killing at least 17 people and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board. (BBC)
- The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest reflecting telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. (The New York Times)
- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, setting out his election manifesto, vows to make foreign troops sign a framework governing how they operate in a bid to limit civilians casualties. (Reuters)
- Canada's national rail service, Via Rail, cancels train service due to a strike by its engineer workers. (CTV)
- FBI and IRS agents arrests 44 people, including five rabbis, two New Jersey state legislators, and three mayors in Operation Bid Rig. (The New York Times)
- A group of 8 people were trapped for 8 hours in an Otis elevator in Toronto. A repair man who tried to fix the elevator fell 10 floors to his death. (CityNews)
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- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her last State of the Nation Address and denies plans to extend her term which end in June 2010 as plans to convene a constituent assembly to amend the constitution erupts. (BBC) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- A line of wildfires in the Mediterranean region, which has killed eight people, spreads to Croatia. (RTÉ) (The Times)
- At least 150 people are killed as clashes continue between radical Islamists in northern Nigeria after two days of unrest. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Africasia)
- Canada challenges the seal ban of the European Union at the World Trade Organization. (BBC) (CBC) (Reuters)
- The United States and China begin the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AFP) (Xinhua) (Reuters)
- Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor denies cannibalism at his war trial in The Hague. (BBC) (The Times)
- A rural community in the Eastern Cape in South Africa lays claim to the entire town of Mthatha in one of the biggest land restitution cases since the end of apartheid. (Sky News)
- Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church begins a visit to Ukraine. (BBC)
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves hospital after tests due to his fainting fits. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- German health minister Ulla Schmidt is criticised when her official car is stolen during the burglarization of her driver's hotel room in Alicante, Spain. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)
- A Saudi man facing flogging or imprisonment for speaking of his illegal sexual conquests on television apologises for his actions. (BBC)
- A break-in at Christ Church Cathedral in Waterford, Ireland, damages the building and the Thomas Elliott organ, dating from 1817. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (Sunday Tribune)
- Researchers outline bokodes, a proposed replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode. (BBC)
- A British-led military offensive, Operation Panther's Claw, succeeds in clearing the Taliban from parts of southern Helmand Province in Afghanistan. (CNN)
- Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's alliance wins enough seats to form a government, though it fell one seat short of a majority. (BBC)
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- 70,000 people are evacuated from Bryan, TX, USA, after ammonium nitrate is released during a fire at the El Dorado Chemical Company warehouse there.(AP via google)
- Palmanova bombing
- Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha indicates he may legalise gay marriage in the country. (CBS) (Straits Times)
- 2009 Nigeria religious violence
- The United States Coast Guard calls off its search for as many as 79 Haitians missing after their boat capsized near the Turks and Caicos Islands with two hundred people onboard. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- Iranian police clash with mourners at a Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai fires Foreign Minister Wilkie Rasmussen, accusing him of plotting to topple the government. (RNZI)
- A South Korean fishing boat is towed away by a North Korean patrol boat. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Korea Times) (RTÉ)
- Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin says he is ready for dialogue "with all political forces represented in the new parliament". (RTÉ)
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises to create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously. (Straits Times)
- U.S. President Barack Obama arranged a meeting with police officer Sgt. James Crowley and African American public intellectual Henry Louis Gates at the White House in a bid to quell a dispute over racial profiling that arose from an altercation between the two of them. (AP via New York Times)
- Referendum Commission research indicates a significant increase in the level of understanding of the Treaty of Lisbon among Irish voters. (RTÉ)
- Islamist militants kill at least 15 Algerian soldiers and injure 20 others in an ambush outside Tipaza. (BBC)
- 8 people are killed and 10 are injured in a bomb attack on the offices of a Sunni political party, Kitab Sultan, in Diyala Governorate. (Straits Times)
- Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy wins a "landmark victory" in the House of Lords in her fight to allow her husband to help her commit suicide abroad. (RTÉ) (Sky News)
- Iraq's government admit that seven Iranian exiles were killed when Iraqi forces took control of their camp north of Baghdad. (Reuters)
- University College Dublin quarantines seven language students after around sixty mainly Italian and Russian students are assessed by doctors for swine flu. (RTÉ)
- The United States Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to several international figures including Stephen Hawking, Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk, Sidney Poitier, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu and Muhammad Yunus. (Boston Globe) (The Los Angeles Times) (San Francisco Chronicle)
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- U.S. House of Representatives approves an extra $2 billion to the Car Allowance Rebate System. (The Wall Street Journal)
- A Norwegian cargo vessel with a crew of six sinks after a storm in Swedish waters near Strömstad. (CBC) (Reuters) (RTÉ)
- Eight Dutch tourists are killed and 42 people are injured in a bus crash near Barcelona. (Bangkok Post) (RTÉ) (The Times of India)
- Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the centre of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal, claims he and his party offered her a seat in the European Parliament until his wife complained. (BBC)
- Gazprom launches construction of the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline. (Reuters) (UPI)
- British Airways loses £148m in the last three months, the company's first loss since privatisation in 1987. (Sky News)
- The verdict in the trial of National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi, scheduled for today, is postponed until August 11. (Bangkok Post) (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ) (The Straits Times)
- 28 people are killed in Iraq after bombs explode at Shiite mosques in Baghdad. (The Times of India) (AFP)
- Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States, ending a 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (BBC)
- Aerial photographs reveal the streetplan of the lost Roman city of Altinum, regarded by some scholars as a forerunner of Venice. (BBC) (Der Spiegel) (The Times)
- Briton Gary McKinnon, accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation, loses his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, and faces extradition to the United States. (CNN) (RTÉ)
- Filmmaker Benicio del Toro is presented with the International Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Prize by the Cuban government in Havana. (BBC) (The New York Times)
- Research claiming to have created human sperm in a Newcastle laboratory is withdrawn due to evidence of plagiarism. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Three United States tourists are detained by Iranians in Iraq. (BBC)
- The giant Swiss bank UBS and that nation's government have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against UBS by United States tax authorities, in an agreement that seems likely to result in giving the Internal Revenue Service access to thousands of previously secret U.S. client accounts. (Globe & Mail)
- A church in Copenhagen offers blessings to 18 same-sex couples from around the world who are typically chastised. (The Copenhagen Post)
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