John Boehner John Boehner schedules his resignation from the position of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and from Congress for the end of October.
Hakubun Shimomura Hakubun Shimomura resigns as Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology due to the design for the stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics being abandoned.
Illegally arranging payments The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland opens criminal proceedings against the President of FIFA Sepp Blatter.
Johns Island, South Carolina A tornado, with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph, strikes Johns Island, South Carolina with no deaths or injuries, but 75 homes are damaged, 10 heavily.
Indonesia Thirty-nine people are injured after an earthquake in the waters off the coast of the Indonesian province of West Papua.
Recent incident of hazes in 2015 Singapore closes its primary and secondary schools as smoke from the Indonesian fires raises air pollution to hazardous levels.
2015 Hajj stampede King Salman of Saudi Arabia orders an investigation into the stampede near Mecca which has claimed over 700 lives and caused 800 injuries.
Ukraine Ukraine selectively bans certain Russian airlines such as Aeroflot and Transaero from flying to and through Ukraine.
China The People's Republic of China will launch a cap and trade policy creating a carbon market in 2017.
Syrian civil war New Syrian Forces trade American supplied equipment to the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in return for safe passage.
Recent coup Burkina Faso's cabinet dissolves the elite presidential guard behind last week's coup d'état, creates a commission to investigate these events, and dismisses the minister in charge of security.