• A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Yunnan province of China, killing one person and destroying over 10,000 homes. (BBC)
• July 2009 Ürümqi riots
  • Chinese President Hu Jintao returns to Beijing and chairs Politburo Meeting, vowing "severe punishment" on culprits as the social order in Ürümqi is being restored. (Xinhua)
  • China opposes Turkey's attempt to place the riots on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council, saying it is a "domestic affair", as Turkish Trade and Industry Minister Nihat Ergun and some Turkish companies call for a boycott of Chinese goods. (Xinhua)

(BBC) (Today's Zaman) (NASDAQ)

• 2009 Iranian election protests
  • Tehran Governor Morteza Tamaddon vows to "smash" any new protests. (Al Bawaba)
  • Iranian police fire tear gas at protesters near Tehran University as new protests continue. (BBC) (The Globe and Mail) (CNN)
• 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
  • David Cameron is asked to dismiss one of his most trusted advisers over allegations of illegal phone hacking by the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid. (The Times)
  • British police are to investigate phone hacking claims by a newspaper. (BBC) (Bloomberg) (The New York Times)
• 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)