FBI Abdul-Baki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev (the man who had confessed to the FBI the day before in Orlando, Florida, to working with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased older brother in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, in a previously unsolved 2011 triple homicide, and subsequently while being questioned attacked an agent with a knife and was killed) claims that his son is innocent and that federal investigators are biased against Chechens and made up their case against him.
Murder of Lee Rigby The victim of yesterday's attack in London is confirmed to have been a serving British soldier, and named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo as fighting continues near the eastern city of Goma.
Alabama A cluster of mysterious and serious respiratory illnesses that affected Southeast Alabama and killed 2 people was nothing more than the ordinary common cold, mostly rhinovirus, and seasonal influenza A.
Montreal Most of the population in Montreal, Canada, is advised to boil water before drinking after sediments are found in the reservoir of a major water treatment plant.
Interstate 5 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in the US town of Mount Vernon, Washington, dumping vehicles in the river but with no fatalities.
India Five people are killed and thirty eight injured in a road accident in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.
Ford Ford Motor Company announces the closure of its Australian manufacturing operations in October 2016, including a car factory in Broadmeadows and an engine plant in Geelong with a loss of 1,200 jobs.
Suicide bomber Two suicide bombers strike in the northern Niger towns of Agadez and Arlit with twenty-one dead and ten more people killed in a gun battle between soldiers and Islamist fighters.
Code Pink Code Pink's Medea Benjamin condemns Barack Obama's use of drones and the Guantanamo hunger strikes during Obama's speech outlining U.S. drone policy.
2013 Stockholm riots Riots continue for a fourth night in suburbs of the Swedish capital Stockholm heavily populated by immigrants with unrest spreading.
Friends of Syria Group Friends of Syria calls on Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to withdraw from Syrian territory.