Al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri pledges allegiance to the new Taliban chief Akhter Mansour in an audio message posted online.
Avoiding Swedish prosecutors drop some charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as the statute of limitations expire but will continue to investigate rape claims.
Egypt An unspecified-type Egyptian military aircraft crashes due to a 'technical failure' near the Libyan border killing four crew members and injuring two others.
2015 Chinese stock market crash The People's Republic of China further devalues the yuan (Renminbi) by 1 percent after two previous devaluings.
Solid Energy The New Zealand government-owned, coal-mining company, Solid Energy, goes into temporary voluntary administration, asking creditors to freeze most of its debt.
2015 Baghdad market truck bomb A truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq kills at least 76 people and wounds 212 others. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack.