Pakistan Pakistan lifts a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism, months after reinstating it.
University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma expels two students identified as ringleaders in the singing of a racist chant by the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation and eight other organisations file a lawsuit in the state of Maryland, US against the National Security Agency and the United States Department of Justice regarding the NSA's mass surveillance program. The Wikimedia Foundation is the owner and parent company of Wikipedia.
New Zealand Police in New Zealand announce they are investigating threats to contaminate infant formula, after letters were sent to dairy cooperative Fonterra and farming lobby group Federated Farmers containing packages of infant formula laced with 1080 poison.
Class A drugs A large number of Class A drugs became legal in Republic of Ireland after a legislative mistake overruled the 1977 Misuse of drugs act. this prompted some emergency legislation being rushed through but effectivly a single day where the use of drugs became legal.
Collides A passenger train collides with a lorry on a level crossing at Dien Sanh, Vietnam leaving one person dead and several others injured.
Soul singer The family of soul music singer Marvin Gaye wins a $7.3 million lawsuit for copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I. holding that Thicke's hit "Blurred Lines" resembled Gaye's "Got to Give It Up".
Sinai insurgency A suicide bomber kills one person and injures 24 in an attack on a police station in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.