Peru Peru seizes $2.3 million in counterfeit U.S. 50 dollar bills heading to other South American countries.
Tropical Storm Leslie Tropical Storm Ernesto forms in the Atlantic Ocean with storm warnings issued for Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique, and Guadelope.
Megabus One person dies and at least ten other people are seriously injured when a fully loaded double-decker Megabus crashes into a bridge support on Interstate 55 in Illinois, ten miles north of Litchfield.
Pakistan At least 23 people are injured as two blasts hit a fruit market in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore.
War in Afghanistan Two dozen Taliban fighters are killed in operations across Afghanistan during the last 24 hours.
Civil war Kofi Annan resigns as the head of the U.N.-Arab League peace envoy for Syria, according to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon.
71 people are killed through Syria by mid-day, including dozens in a massacre perpetrated by the Syrian army in the Damascus suburbs.
A United States government source reveals that Barack Obama signed a secret order in early 2012 permitting the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide the rebels in Syria with support in order to overthrow the al-Assad regime.