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- U.S. House of Representatives approves an extra $2 billion to the Car Allowance Rebate System. (The Wall Street Journal)
- A Norwegian cargo vessel with a crew of six sinks after a storm in Swedish waters near Strömstad. (CBC) (Reuters) (RTÉ)
- Eight Dutch tourists are killed and 42 people are injured in a bus crash near Barcelona. (Bangkok Post) (RTÉ) (The Times of India)
- Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the centre of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal, claims he and his party offered her a seat in the European Parliament until his wife complained. (BBC)
- Gazprom launches construction of the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline. (Reuters) (UPI)
- British Airways loses £148m in the last three months, the company's first loss since privatisation in 1987. (Sky News)
- The verdict in the trial of National League for Democracy General Secretary Aung San Suu Kyi, scheduled for today, is postponed until August 11. (Bangkok Post) (Al Jazeera) (RTÉ) (The Straits Times)
- 28 people are killed in Iraq after bombs explode at Shiite mosques in Baghdad. (The Times of India) (AFP)
- Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States, ending a 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (BBC)
- Aerial photographs reveal the streetplan of the lost Roman city of Altinum, regarded by some scholars as a forerunner of Venice. (BBC) (Der Spiegel) (The Times)
- Briton Gary McKinnon, accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation, loses his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, and faces extradition to the United States. (CNN) (RTÉ)
- Filmmaker Benicio del Toro is presented with the International Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Prize by the Cuban government in Havana. (BBC) (The New York Times)
- Research claiming to have created human sperm in a Newcastle laboratory is withdrawn due to evidence of plagiarism. (The Daily Telegraph)
- Three United States tourists are detained by Iranians in Iraq. (BBC)
- The giant Swiss bank UBS and that nation's government have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against UBS by United States tax authorities, in an agreement that seems likely to result in giving the Internal Revenue Service access to thousands of previously secret U.S. client accounts. (Globe & Mail)
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- 70,000 people are evacuated from Bryan, TX, USA, after ammonium nitrate is released during a fire at the El Dorado Chemical Company warehouse there. (The Examiner) (AP via google)
- Palmanova bombing
- Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha indicates he may legalise gay marriage in the country. (CBS) (Straits Times)
- 2009 Nigeria religious violence
- The United States Coast Guard calls off its search for as many as 79 Haitians missing after their boat capsized near the Turks and Caicos Islands with two hundred people onboard. (Al Jazeera) (CNN)
- Iranian police clash with mourners at a Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Cook Islands Prime Minister Jim Marurai fires Foreign Minister Wilkie Rasmussen, accusing him of plotting to topple the government. (RNZI)
- A South Korean fishing boat is towed away by a North Korean patrol boat. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) (The Korea Times) (RTÉ)
- Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin says he is ready for dialogue "with all political forces represented in the new parliament". (RTÉ)
- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises to create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously. (Straits Times)
- U.S. President Barack Obama arranged a meeting with police officer Sgt. James Crowley and African American public intellectual Henry Louis Gates at the White House in a bid to quell a dispute over racial profiling that arose from an altercation between the two of them. (AP via New York Times)
- Referendum Commission research indicates a significant increase in the level of understanding of the Treaty of Lisbon among Irish voters. (RTÉ)
- Islamist militants kill at least 15 Algerian soldiers and injure 20 others in an ambush outside Tipaza. (BBC)
- 8 people are killed and 10 are injured in a bomb attack on the offices of a Sunni political party, Kitab Sultan, in Diyala Governorate. (Straits Times)
- Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy wins a "landmark victory" in the House of Lords in her fight to allow her husband to help her commit suicide abroad. (RTÉ) (Sky News)
- Iraq's government admit that seven Iranian exiles were killed when Iraqi forces took control of their camp north of Baghdad. (Reuters)
- University College Dublin quarantines seven language students after around sixty mainly Italian and Russian students are assessed by doctors for swine flu. (RTÉ)
- The United States Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to several international figures including Stephen Hawking, Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk, Sidney Poitier, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu and Muhammad Yunus. (Boston Globe) (The Los Angeles Times) (San Francisco Chronicle)
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- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her last State of the Nation Address and denies plans to extend her term which end in June 2010 as plans to convene a constituent assembly to amend the constitution erupts. (BBC) (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
- A line of wildfires in the Mediterranean region, which has killed eight people, spreads to Croatia. (RTÉ) (The Times)
- At least 150 people are killed as clashes continue between radical Islamists in northern Nigeria after two days of unrest. (BBC) (Associated Press) (Africasia)
- Canada challenges the seal ban of the European Union at the World Trade Organization. (BBC) (CBC) (Reuters)
- The United States and China begin the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AFP) (Xinhua) (Reuters)
- Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor denies cannibalism at his war trial in The Hague. (BBC) (The Times)
- A rural community in the Eastern Cape in South Africa lays claim to the entire town of Mthatha in one of the biggest land restitution cases since the end of apartheid. (Sky News)
- Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church begins a visit to Ukraine. (BBC)
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves hospital after tests due to his fainting fits. (BBC) (RTÉ) (The Times)
- German health minister Ulla Schmidt is criticised when her official car is stolen during the burglarization of her driver's hotel room in Alicante, Spain. (BBC) (Deutsche Welle)
- A Saudi man facing flogging or imprisonment for speaking of his illegal sexual conquests on television apologises for his actions. (BBC)
- A break-in at Christ Church Cathedral in Waterford, Ireland, damages the building and the Thomas Elliott organ, dating from 1817. (The Irish Times) (RTÉ) (Sunday Tribune)
- Researchers outline bokodes, a proposed replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode. (BBC)
- A British-led military offensive, Operation Panther's Claw, succeeds in clearing the Taliban from parts of southern Helmand Province in Afghanistan. (CNN)
- Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's alliance wins enough seats to form a government, though it fell one seat short of a majority. (BBC)
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