Thailand The wife of Thailand's crown prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, Princess Srirasmi, resigns her royal status following a corruption probe of her relatives. The King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej grants her a divorce.
Vietnam Vietnam files an intervention in the arbitration case about the South China Sea with Vietnam rejecting China's claims.
Landslide Landslides caused by heavy rain in Java, Indonesia, kill at least 17 people with a hundred still unaccounted for.
ISIL Iraqi officials claim that ISIL have shot down a military helicopter near Samarra, killing both pilots.
Taliban insurgency Twenty-one people die in attacks across Afghanistan including two American soldiers.
Gunmen assassinate Atiqullah Rawoofi, the head of the Secretariat of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, in the outskirts of Kabul.