Italian Chamber of Deputies Italian MPs in the lower house approve tough budget cuts with 314 votes in favour and 280 against.
Pink Floyd Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, is jailed for 16 months for violent disorder during the student protests against tuition fees in London late last year.
Barack Obama U.S. president Barack Obama makes a phone call to the International Space Station (ISS) and jokes with astronauts about pizza.
Civil war The United States recognizes the Libyan National Transitional Council as the legitimate governing authority in Libya.
U.S. Secretary of State The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with NATO leaders to try to find a solution to the Libya crisis.
Republic of Ireland Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny attacks the Vatican's approach to the child abuse scandals in the country as "absolutely disgraceful", while the Socialist Party's Joe Higgins tells Dáil Éireann that people were "throwing their hands in the air" after the report into the sexual abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese was published this week.
Zendstation Smilde A portion of the Zendstation Smilde in Hoogersmilde, Netherlands collapses in a fire.
2011 Horn of Africa drought The Kenyan government announces the opening of a fourth refugee camp at Dadaab in the North Eastern Province.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 5 million people are at risk of developing cholera in Ethiopia, with the breakout of acute watery diarrhea.
Conspiracy to hack mobile phones The actor Jude Law has filed a lawsuit against "The Sun" over allegations of phone hacking.
Les Hinton, who ran News International from 1997 to 2005 during which the hacking took place, resigns as CEO of News Corp's Dow Jones entity.
"The Guardian" reveals the advertisement Rupert Murdoch intends to run in British newspapers at the weekend apologising for "serious wrongdoing".
There are concerns over a donation believed to be at least £100,000 given by James Murdoch towards Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom last year; Murdoch was then introduced to Benedict.
Rupert Murdoch attacks former UK prime minister Gordon Brown in "The Wall Street Journal" in his first interview on the scandal and accuses British MPs of telling lies.
Rupert Murdoch meets the family of Milly Dowler and gives them what their solicitor calls a full and sincere apology.
UK prime minister David Cameron paid for his "friend", the former "News of the World" editor Andy Coulson, to stay with him at his country residence of Chequers, two months after Coulson resigned as Cameron's media chief. Coulson has since been arrested for his part in the phone hacking scandal.
Jean Charles de Menezes The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by police bullets in London in 2005, write a letter to prime minister David Cameron calling for police actions surrounding his death to be investigated in the wake of the News Corp phone hacking scandal that has so far claimed the "News of the World".
Rebekah Brooks Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief executive of News International as a result of the News International phone hacking scandal.
Shell Royal Dutch Shell reveals plans to construct a 600,000-tonne floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform, a world's first for off the coast of Australia.
Stress test 8 European banks fail stress tests that could leave them open to another financial crisis, while another 16 are in a "danger zone".
Largs Europe's biggest lottery jackpot, £161 million (US$260 million), is scooped by a couple from Largs, Ayrshire, in Scotland.
13 July 2011 Mumbai bombings 13 July 2011 Mumbai bombings: Indian investigators check CCTV footage in their search for clues into Wednesday's triple bombing in Mumbai.
2011 Syrian uprising 2011 Syrian uprising: At least 14 people are killed in the latests attacks by regime forces on demonstrations in cities nationwide. More than 10,000 people are held in prisons by the regime. The demonstrations are reported to be among the largest yet in the ongoing effort to topple the government.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships begin a major offensive in south-eastern Turkey as the country's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vows to seek vengeance on Kurdish rebels.
Drones launch International campaigners against the drone attacks, carried out by the United States in Pakistan, launch their attempt to have former CIA legal chief John A. Rizzo arrested and charged with the murders of hundreds of people after his admission in "Newsweek" that he approved attacks each month since 2004.