Tel Aviv A second Israeli who set himself on fire in protest of economic difficulties in Tel Aviv dies of his injuries in hospital.
Mexican Army Prosecutors formally charge three Mexican Army generals, including active General Roberto Dawe Gonzalez and retired General Tomás Ángeles Dauahare, and a lieutenant-colonel for their alleged links to a drug trafficking organization known as the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.
Somalia Somali security forces kill two suicide bombers trying to infiltrate a meeting of 825 Somali elders discussing the country's new constitution in Mogadishu.
Tal Law The Tal Law, which granted a sweeping exemption from military service to a majority of the Israeli ultra-Orthodox population in Israel, expires. As a result Defense Minister Ehud Barak orders the Israeli Defense Forces to prepare for a universal draft of ultra-Orthodox Jewish males in 30 days.
Taiwan Heading toward Taiwan, slow-moving Typhoon Saola's torrential rains lead to the deaths of at least 12 people and displacement of 154,000 in the Philippines.
India Power is restored in India following an earlier blackout in three grids that left over 600 million people without power.
Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 suspense thriller "Vertigo" is named as the greatest film of all time in a poll by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" magazine.