- The Government of Kenya announces that 2.3 million bags of maize are unfit for human consumption due to contamination with high levels of aflatoxins, which have killed at least one child. (BBC)
- The crew of the Libyan M/V Rim takes back the ship from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Another ship, the Panamanian M/V QSM Dubai, is captured. (BBC) (Daily Nation) (CNN)
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns after breaking his campaign promise to remove a United States military base from Okinawa. (Aljazeera) (AP via Yahoo News) (Wall Street Journal)
- Gaza flotilla raid:
- Cumbria shootings:
- Amnesty International condemns Sunday's execution, in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, of 18 people, some of whom were from Chad, Egypt and Nigeria. (AFP) (BBC)
- 15 people die after a minibus drives off a cliff in the Philippines. (Hindustan Times)
- 14 people are killed and injuries are caused when a four-storey building collapses in Tejgaon, Dhaka. (BBC)
- President of South Africa Jacob Zuma goes to India on his first state visit to Asia, launching a bilateral trade forum in Mumbai. (BBC)
- 3 people are killed and 6 wounded when a leftover bomb from World War II explodes while being defused in Göttingen, Lower Saxony. (AFP) (Aljazeera) (BBC) (The Times of India)
- Archbishop of Freiburg (Germany) Robert Zollitsch is charged with "aiding and abetting child sex abuse", though the archdiocese rejects the charges and coverage of them as "absolutely weak" and "sensationalist". (Deutsche Welle) (BBC) (France24) (Houston Chronicle)
- The right's Civic Democratic Party (ODS), TOP 09 and Public Affairs sign a coalition agreement in the wake of last Saturday's general election in the Czech Republic, even though the left Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD) won more votes. (Aljazeera)
- Police in Saudi Arabia investigate three young Saudis, two men and one woman, who spoke critically of the country's laws on the MTV documentary, Resist the Power! Saudi Arabia. (BBC) (National Post) (The New Yotik Times) (Reuters)
- A heatwave strikes India and South Asia, reaching 53C (127F) and killing many hundreds of people. (Guardian)
- New Caledonia President Philippe Gomès is indicted over alleged misuse of business contracts. (RNZI)
- Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, opens a national peace conference to discuss negotiating with the Taliban. A rocket lands near the venue of the conference in Kabul and a suicide bomber sets off explosives outside the conference. (Aljazeera) (AP via Palm Beach Post), (AP via Google News)
- The South Korean government says that it will spend 11.3 billion won (US$9.3 million) until 2013 to support research on key three-dimensional 3D TV technologies. (Yonhap News)
- President of Lombardy, Roberto Formigoni, offers pregnant women €4,500 if they do not have abortions: anti-abortion campaigners welcome the move and critics call it "propaganda". (BBC) (The Times)
- Stage and screen actor Sir Patrick Stewart, known for his role in Star Trek, is knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace in England. (BBC) (The Daily Telegraph) (The Boston Globe)
- Brazil and Zimbabwe play a football game in front of a sell-out crowd in Harare ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the first time since independence that a non-African team has performed in the country. President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai both attend and civil servants are given time off work. (BBC) (Times Live) (CBC) (Fox News) (The Guardian)
- The BBC announces that Last of the Summer Wine, the world's longest-running sitcom, is to be axed after 37 years. (BBC) (The Guardian) (RTÉ) (The Scotsman) (The Press Association)
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