''Cassini'' retirement After 20 years "floating" the Solar System, the "Cassini" space probe to the Saturn system ends the mission with a controlled fall into the atmosphere of the planet.
Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, 2017 The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament votes to go ahead with the planned independence referendum, scheduled to take place on 25 September, 2017.
Philippine drug war Around 1,200 members of the Philippine National Police in the suburb of Caloocan are fired over allegations of crimes attributed to the police.
Politics of Iceland Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson is criticised after his father wrote a letter recommending that a convicted child molester be pardoned. The Bright Future party withdraws from the governing coalition, triggering its collapse.
Shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith Hundreds of people protest the decision. After some protests become violent, 10 police officers are injured and 32 protesters are arrested.
The ex-police officer involved in a fatal 2011 shooting of a black man in St. Louis, Missouri is acquitted of all charges related to the case.
2017 North Korea crisis South Korea responds with its own missile firing just six minutes after the North's test was detected.
A North Korean missile flies over Hokkaido, Japan, triggering the J-Alert system, following a similar event on 29 August.
Fight against hunger The World Health Organization says that hunger around the world has risen as a result of war and climate change.
Crocodile attack A journalist for the British newspaper "Financial Times" is killed by a crocodile in Sri Lanka.
2017 Pacific typhoon season Typhoon Doksuri (Maring) hits central Vietnam killing one person and injuring ten.
2017 Atlantic hurricane season In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the island of Barbuda is fully depopulated for the first time in 300 years.
Economy of California Key housing bills pass in California, the U.S. state with the highest number of people suffering from homelessness and poverty.
Oldest living people Jamaican Violet Mosse-Brown, the world's oldest person, dies in Montego Bay at age 117.
2017 Parsons Green bombing An explosion on a train at the Parsons Green tube station in London injures 29. Scotland Yard is treating the incident as a terrorist attack.