Tunisia Salem Labyedh resigns as Tunisia's Education Minister following last week's assassination of Mohamed Brahmi.
India India's ruling coalition endorses the creation of a new state of Telangana to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.
Independent Commission Against Corruption The Independent Commission Against Corruption in the Australian state of New South Wales finds that former Ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid acted corruptly and recommends that charges be laid.
Cuba At least seven people have been killed and another 40 hospitalised from drinking illegal alcohol in the Cuban capital Havana.
Sirhind-Fategarh Forty people are missing and presumed drowned after a bus plunges into a canal near Sirhind-Fategarh, Punjab, India.
Heatwave At least ten people die as a result of a heatwave in the Shanghai which has recorded its highest temperatures on record, surpassing 40 C.