Home Office Several thousand UK Home Office workers belonging to the Public and Commercial Services Union are to stage industrial action throughout the 2012 Summer Olympics over wages and employment issues.
Burma Burma's state television airs the first memorial ceremony in over 20 years for Aung San – the father of Aung San Suu Kyi – who led the country to its independence.
Death of Ian Tomlinson PC Simon Harwood is cleared of the manslaughter of Ian Tomlinson during protests at the 2009 G20 London summit.
Birmingham Eight men are found not guilty of the murder of three friends in Birmingham during last year's riots in England.
Antwerp, New York Six people are killed and one is injured in Antwerp, New York when a tractor trailer carrying yogurt rear-ends a vehicle that had slowed for construction work.
The United Kingdom Syrian leaders' assets with the worth of £100m are located and frozen in the United Kingdom.
Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, condemns yesterday's bombing that killed the Syrian defence minister and other senior officials.
Omar Suleiman Omar Suleiman, the former police and intelligence chief under ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, dies suddenly during medical tests in the United States.
Chinese China summons a Russian diplomat after the latter country opened fire on a fishing boat and detained the Chinese crew.
Bangladesh Bangladeshi writer and film director Humayun Ahmed dies at 63 in New York while undergoing a treatment for colorectal cancer.
The economy The International Monetary Fund urges the UK government to slow the pace of its budget cuts in 2013 if economic growth does not recover.
In an interview published by "The Daily Telegraph", British Prime Minister David Cameron suggests that government spending cuts will need to continue until the end of the decade.
Valiulla Yakupov Russian Muslim leader Valiulla Yakupov is shot dead and the Mufti of Tatarstan, Ildus Fayzov, is wounded in two separate attacks in Kazan in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.
Syrian uprising (2011–present) Russia and China veto a United Nations Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against Syria. 11 nations vote in favour while Pakistan and South Africa abstain.