Scottish government The Scottish Government announce plans to legalise same-sex marriage, prospectively becoming the first part of the United Kingdom to do so.
2012 Summer Olympics Union officials call off a public sector strike in the United Kingdom scheduled for the eve of the 2012 Olympics.
Guo Jinlong Guo Jinlong resigns as the Mayor of the Chinese capital Beijing with Wang Anshun appointed as the acting mayor.
South Korea A private South Korean committee announces that it plans to file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court against North Korea over repatriation of prisoners of war and remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War.
Leonid Khabarov The court hearings are rescheduled for Leonid Khabarov, an alleged mastermind behind the new Russian revolution.
Earthquake A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the Indonesian island of Sumatra with one man dying while fleeing his home.
Economic output Official figures indicate economic output in the United Kingdom fell by 0.7% between April and June, meaning the recession has deepened in the country.
Egan-Jones Ratings Company Egan-Jones Ratings Company downgrades Italy to CCC+ from B+, saying the country has a one-year default probability of 22%.
India Nine people are killed overnight in ethnic clashes in the Indian state of Assam with the total death toll since last Friday being 35.
Syrian civil war Lamia al-Hariri, Syrian ambassador to Cyprus, and her husband Abdelatif al-Dabbagh, Syrian ambassador to the UAE, defect to Qatar.
The Syrian Army reportedly fires rockets and artillery barrages at the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Al-Tall.