People's Republic of China Hundreds of Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese people are arrested in several countries across Asia during a crackdown on a telephone scam network.
Yuri Budanov Yuri Budanov, a Russian colonel convicted of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen girl during the Chechen War, is shot dead in Moscow.
Vietnam said that a Chinese fishing boat had purposefully torn away a seismic research cable laid by Vietnam's Petrovietnam oil company inside Vietnam’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
Iran Iran has reportedly been caught on 10 separate occasions trying to send arms to terrorist groups, including Hamas and the Taliban.
Environment Agency The British Environment Agency declares drought in five English counties – Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, parts of Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Norfolk – following a dry spring.
Cesium Radioactive cesium above Japanese legal limits is found in tea from the Shizuoka Prefecture, located 300 kilometres from the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
South Korea The South Korean Central Bank raises its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent.
People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China's only ratings house that grades sovereign entities, the Dagong Global Credit Rating Company, states that the United States is already defaulting on its debt by allowing the U.S. dollar to devalue against other currencies, diminishing the wealth of China as a U.S. creditor.
Somalia The Somali interior minister, Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan, is killed by a female suicide bomber at his house in the capital Mogadishu.
The Syrian Army begins operations to "restore security" to Jisr al-Shughour and the surrounding area.