Category 4 Hurricane Danielle strengthens to Category 4, becoming the first major hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.
Arrowhead Arrowheads found in the Sibudu Cave in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa show that humans were using bow and arrows 64000 years ago.
University of Liverpool A team of scientists, led by Neil Hall from the University of Liverpool, releases draft sequences of the wheat genome.
Governor-General of Australia Legal advice clears Governor-General of Australia Mrs. Quentin Bryce to make a decision on who will be the next Prime Minister of Australia despite family ties to Australian Labor Party powerbroker Bill Shorten.
Paul Allen Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, Apple Computer, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples Inc., Yahoo and YouTube.
Mexico The chief investigator of the mass killing of 72 people in Mexico's Tamaulipas state has been missing since Wednesday.
U.S. President Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter secures the release of US citizen Aijalon Gomes from North Korea.
United Nations A draft United Nations report says crimes by the Rwandan army and allied rebels in Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Second Congo War could be classified as genocide.
France France rejects criticism from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination over its Romani removal strategy.
Muslim Muslims protest outside the United States embassy in Jakarta about plans by the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida to burn Korans on the 9th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka urges Saudi Arabia to investigate the case of a Sri Lankan maid who had nails and needles pushed into her by her employers as a "punishment". Doctors later remove 24 nails and needles from her body.
India India cancels defence exchanges with China after the latter refused to grant a visa to a general from Kashmir.
Flood Floods and landslides have killed at least 34 people in Nicaragua and affected 84,000 since the start of the rainy season on May 15.
Indus River The Indus River breaches its banks near the southern Pakistan city of Thatta forcing the evacuations of hundreds of thousands of people.
U.S. Justice Department The United States Department of Justice closes an antitrust probe into a proposed merger of United Airlines and Continental Airlines clearing the way for shareholders to vote on the proposal.
Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, says the United States Federal Reserve is prepared to act against the prospects of deflation but expects economic growth to continue during the latter half of 2010 "albeit at a relatively modest pace."
Indian troops Almost 45 people are injured in clashes between stone-throwing protesters and Indian security forces in India's Kashmir Valley.
Bombs Two bombs explode in the Mexican city of Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, outside the municipal police station and the Televisa television station.
Police Police in India kill Umakanta Mahato, a top Maoist guerilla wanted in connection with the Gyaneshwari Express train derailment in May.
The al-Shabaab rebel group in Somalia says it has called 11 truckloads of reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu after a week-long battle.