HTV-3 HTV-3 detaches from the ISS for a burial in the Pacific Ocean. ATV 3 thrusts the ISS' orbit two kilometers up. TMA-04M will land on 17 September. ATV-003, named "Edoardo Amaldi", is planned to disconnect on September 25th and burn up itself and a load of trash in the atmosphere over the same ocean.
IAEA At the IAEA, the United States accuses Syria that its "own destabilizing actions are no justification for its refusal" regarding Syria's NPT obligations.
Chinese Marine Surveillance Six Chinese Marine Surveillance ships are reported near the disputed Senkaku Islands by the Japanese Coast Guard. China says "two surveillance ship fleets" are in the waters "around" the islands for "patrols and law enforcement".
Indonesia At least 21 passengers on board an Indonesian ferry that sank last night on the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan are missing and presumed dead.
S&P Dow Jones Indices S&P Dow Jones Indices announces that UnitedHealth Group will replace Kraft Foods among the stock issuers that constitute the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Duke The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge begin legal action after the magazine "Closer" published topless pictures of the Duchess taken during a holiday to France last week, and which their spokesman describes as “a grotesque and totally unjustifiable” invasion of privacy.
University of Texas at Austin The campus buildings of the University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University are evacuated due to bomb threats.
2012 Anti-Islam film protests At least two American Marines and 16 Taliban fighters are killed in a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion airbase in Afghanistan's Helmand province, says a spokesman at nearby Camp Leatherneck.
The bodies of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Officer Sean Smith, and former SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, killed in the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, are returned to the United States, for their eventual funerals, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in a solemn military ceremony attended by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
Fifty U.S. Marines are deployed to the American embassy in Yemen as a "precautionary measure" after clashes in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
Protesters in Tripoli, Lebanon, set fire to a KFC and a Hardees restaurant, sparking clashes with local security forces. One protester is killed and 25 people wounded, including 18 police officers.
Protesters angered by an anti-Islamic film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad attack the German and British embassies in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. In Khartoum, Tunis and Cairo, at least seven people die. An Egyptian fruit seller dies by rubber bullets.