Democratic Republic of the Congo The lawyer of two Norwegians who have been imprisoned in the Congo since 2009 says one of the two, Tjostolv Moland, is found dead in his prison cell.
Bo Xilai Bo Xilai, a former member of Politburo of the Communist Party of China, charged with bribery and corruption, will go on trial on August 22 in the city of Jinan.
India Six people are injured in a bomb explosion on a bus in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
Political violence in Egypt Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood supporters are killed in prison while attempting to escape police custody.
Syrian civil war A team of twenty UN weapons inspectors arrives in the capital, Damascus, to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons in the conflict.