Solar Impulse The Solar Impulse, a solar plane, lands in Morocco, completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun.
Kwame R. Brown Kwame R. Brown, the Chair of the Council of the District of Columbia responsible for the US capital Washington D.C., resigns after being charged with bank fraud.
Felipe Calderón Mexican president Felipe Calderón signs a law making Mexico only the second country in the world to introduce binding targets on climate change.
Li Wangyang Li Wangyang, a labour activist and Chinese dissident jailed after the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, is found dead in a hospital ward in central China, with foul play suspected.
Israel Hours after a bill to legalise settlement outposts is rejected, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the construction of 300 new homes at the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank.
Bradley Manning The defence of imprisoned U.S. serviceman Bradley Manning receives a boost with a ruling by the judge presiding over his trial at Fort Meade in Maryland ordering the Obama administration to hand over several documents the government had hoped would remain confidential.
European Central Bank A group of Irish people are thrown out of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt after attempting to hand a letter of protest to the bank's president Mario Draghi.
Diamond jubilee The BBC receives over 2,000 complaints from viewers about its Jubilee coverage. The broadcaster is also criticised by other media for its Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant coverage.
The Jubilee celebrations conclude with a lunch at Marlborough House on Pall Mall attended by Elizabeth II and Commonwealth leaders.
Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury, author of "The Martian Chronicles" and "Fahrenheit 451", dies at the age of 91 in his home in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
J. M. Coetzee J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer are among those to criticise South Africa's "secrecy bill" which they say could fundamentally threaten free speech and investigative journalism.
Controversy is stoked after a video emerges of a U.S. religious minister outlining his plan to imprison the country's gay and lesbian population behind an electric fence until they die.
Kandahar Airport At least twenty people are killed near Kandahar Airport in southern Afghanistan by a motorcycle bomb.
2012 Armenian-Azeri border clashes 2012 Armenian-Azeri border clashes: a new clash kills an Armenian soldier.
Arab Spring Bahraini uprising: Bahraini authorities re-arrest Nabeel Rajab on suspicion of posting tweets seen as critical of the Bahraini regime.
Syrian uprising: Opposition activists on the ground in Syria report that a massacre has been committed in the small village of Qubair, Hama, by the government-hired Shabiha militia. Activists report 78 dead, mostly women and children.