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- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Yunnan province of China, killing one person and destroying over 10,000 homes. (BBC)BBC
- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- 2009 Iranian election protests
- Sudan confirms negotiations are underway to free the kidnapped Irish and Ugandan aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki. (RTÉ)
- New cyber attacks strike South Korean websites, after several successive days of attacks. (Yonhap) (Associated Press) (The Korea Times)
- The death toll from a mass poisoning involving home-brewed alcohol in Gujarat, India rises to 71. (RTÉ)
- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says G8 action on climate change is "not good enough". (BBC)
- Kul Bahadur Khadka, the Nepalese general appointed acting army chief by former Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda denies allegations of plans to stage a coup d'état. (BBC)
- British phone tapping controversy
- A drone strike by the United States kills 50 Taliban militants in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (BBC)
- 25 people, including 21 civilians and 4 police, die and four are injured when an overturned truck carrying explosives blows up on a road south of Kabul, Afghanistan. (RTÉ)
- Bombs in Baghdad and northern Iraq kill at least 41 people and wounded more than 80, police say. (Sky News)
- The United States claims to have released five Iranian diplomats held in Iraq since 2007, but in fact delivers them into Iraqi custody. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
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- The European Commission fines GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline. (Financial Times) (The Wall Street Journal) (Bloomberg) (Reuters)
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen announces that the second referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon in Ireland will be held on October 2. (RTÉ) (The Irish Times)
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il makes a rare public appearance to mark the 15th anniversary of his father's death. (BBC) (CTV) (The Guardian) (MSNBC) (The Times)
- The 35th G8 Summit begins in L'Aquila, Italy. (BBC News) (CNN)
- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- Debris and bodies from Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, wash up on Mafia Island, Tanzania. (BBC)
- Indonesian presidential election, 2009
- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's trial on sodomy charges of engaging in sexual intercourse with a male aide is delayed after his main defence lawyer falls ill. (BBC)
- July 2009 Mindanao bombings
- Strikes by 70,000 workers in South Africa halt work on the World Cup 2010 stadiums. (BBC) (AFP)
- South Korea says North Korea is behind a number of cyber attacks on the websites of government agencies, banks and businesses in South Korea and the United States. (Yonhap) (BBC) (The Times)
- Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti agree to talks under mediation by Costa Rica. (The Guardian)
- Iran says two thirds of protesters have already been released and another 100 will be freed in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election. (Reuters)
- Germany defends its response to the stabbing of pregnant Egyptian Marwa El-Sherbini, saying Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet the Egyptian President to discuss the affair. (BBC) (CBC) (CNN) (The Guardian) (The Irish Times)
- 4 Rio Tinto executives accused of espionage are detained by Chinese Authorities amid iron ore negotiations. (News.com.au)
- Two car bombs blow up in Mosul, the second of them killing at least nine people. (BBC)
- Undercover investigators smuggle bomb-making materials into government buildings in the United States, assembling bombs within, on ten occasions. (BBC)
- The Guardian claims that rival English newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid, paid £1 million in court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in phone tapping celebrities and politicians. (BBC) (Reuters) (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- It is claimed that the drug rapamycin, discovered in the soil of Easter Island in the 1970s, may help to fight the ageing process. (BBC)
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- July 2009 Ürümqi riots
- A public memorial for Michael Jackson takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with over 17,000 viewing in Los Angeles, and millions more viewing around the world. (AP via Google News)
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon begins his two-day visit to Ireland.(RTÉ)
- Police shoot dead the Cherokee County serial killer, identified as Patrick Tracy Burris, after he fired several times at the police. (BBC)
- Tunisian police charge nine men—including two air force officers—with plotting several deaths during joint military exercises with the US. (Jerusalem Post) (BBC)
- A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings is unveiled in the city's Hyde Park. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- An institutional child abuse museum is suggested in Ireland by the Labour Party's Ruairi Quinn, with Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe criticising the Opposition on the issue. (RTÉ)
- The United Nations Security Council condemns the recent missile launches by North Korea. (Xinhua)
- The United Nations says around 204,000 people have fled violence in Mogadishu, Somalia as a result of a militant offensive against government forces. (CNN)
- Two bombs explode in the southern Philippines, killing two and injuring 53. (Philippine Daily Inquirer) (Bloomberg)
- Pope Benedict XVI calls for a new financial world order guided by ethics, dignity and the search for a common good. (The Times of India) (Associated Press)
- 12 people die in a U.S. missile strike on a training camp run by Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is to meet with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Reuters)
- Iraq bans planned group visits to Saddam Hussein's grave. (BBC)
- United States President Barack Obama addresses graduates in Moscow, Russia. (BBC) (The New York Times) (RIA Novosti)
- A Mikoyan MiG-29 of the Serbian military crashes at Batajnica Air Base near Belgrad, killing the pilot and one soldier on the ground. (Sky News)
- Iranian opposition leaders call for the release of people who demonstrated in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election. (New Straits Times)
- Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court challenge a tribunal's decision not to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide in Darfur. (Associated Press)
- Al Franken is sworn in as a U.S. Senator, the 60th caucusing with the Democratic Party which is a filibuster-proof majority. (The New York Times)
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