2010 European Athletics Championships The opening ceremony of the 2010 European Athletics Championships takes place in Barcelona.
Plastiki The "Plastiki", a catamaran made out of recycled plastic, arrives in Sydney, Australia, after travelling across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, United States, to raise awareness of environmental issues.
WikiLeaks Wikileaks releases over 92,000 documents detailing unreported killings of hundreds of Afghan civilians and other incidents related to the war in Afghanistan to "The Guardian", "The New York Times" and "Der Spiegel", in one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history.
United States United States investigators associated with INTERPOL track 200 bank accounts associated with alleged North Korean drug smuggling, counterfeiting, money laundering and arms trafficking.
Khmer Rouge Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch receives the verdict in his trial in Phnom Penh - the first of five surviving senior figures to do so. He is sentenced to 35 years in prison with 16 years off for time served.
Israeli An Israeli Air Force helicopter crashes in Romania with six Israeli airmen and a Romanian military observer on board; all are feared dead.
Bus At least 26 people are killed after a bus crashes in the Daman District in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan.
Car bomb Two car bombs explode near the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least twenty people.
United States The United States, European Union and United Nations pledge additional resources to the African Union's AMISOM peacekeeping force in Somalia.
French President The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy confirms that Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has executed Michel Germaneau, a French hostage taken in Mali.