Fraudulent bomb detectors British businessman Gary Bolton is sentenced 7 years for selling fraudulent bomb detectors.
United States v Bradley Manning "United States v Bradley Manning": United States Army private Chelsea Manning (legally Bradley Manning) is sentenced to 35 years in jail for providing classified material to WikiLeaks.
Cairo A Cairo criminal court releases former President Hosni Mubarak, initiating further investigation of corruption.
Nigerian forces The Nigerian army officially claims the Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, is dead from a gunfight, although others claim Shekau is alive.
David Miranda David Miranda, journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner in covering United States and British mass surveillance programmes, arrives in Brazil, after being released from detainment at Heathrow airport, London.
Pembroke Hill School 18 schoolgirls from Pembroke Hill School, and driver injured in bus crash near Bonner Springs, Missouri.
Devastating floods in summer 2013 China–Russia floods: Twenty one people are killed in a flash flood in Qinghai province.
Japan Japan upgrades the recent leak of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site to Level 3, a "serious incident," on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Syria Syrian activists claim that chemical weapon attacks have killed over 600 people in the outskirts of Damascus.