• Eight people have been confirmed dead in the southern state of Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan. (Sudan Tribune) (africannewslive)
• At least 15,000 people flee their homes in Yemen after a government offensive against rebels in the south in the country. (BBC)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
  • Nine International Security Assistance Force soldiers are killed in a NATO helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan. (AFP via National Post) (China Daily) (CNN)
  • NATO fatalities rise to 529 making 2010 the most deadly year of the war since 2001. (New York Times)
• Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims responsibility for kidnapping five French workers in Niger. (Reuters)

• Lawrence Summers announces that he will leave as head of the United States National Economic Council, responsible for advising President Barack Obama on economic policy. (New York Times)
• In the Mark Cuban insider trading case, an appeals court overturns a district court decision last fall that had dismissed the civil charges brought against Cuban by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (MarketWatch).

• 2010 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Lisa forms in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands. (AP via Canadian Business)
  • Hurricane Igor heads for Newfoundland. (News 13)

• China rules out a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the United Nations to resolve an ongoing diplomatic row, saying the timing is "not proper". (Reuters) (AFP) (Radio Television Hong Kong)

• Italian authorities seize 23 million euro (approximately US$30 million) from a Vatican bank account in a money laundering probe. (AP)
• U.S. entertainers Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are stopped by immigrations at a Japanese airport and forbidden to enter the country due to Paris's drug conviction the day prior. (Fox News)

• A gay rights protest against the views of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov is broken up with eight people arrested. (BBC) (Sify India) (AP)
• President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo sacks heads of the country's army, navy and air force plus five more senior officers in a decision aimed at "institutionalizing the structure of the armed forces". (BBC)
• Asylum seekers at the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney, Australia, continue their protest with some inmates cutting themselves until a meeting occurs with officials from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. (ABC News), (AFP via Yahoo! News), (ABC News Online)
• The governing Workers Party of North Korea reschedules its first party conference for thirty years for September 28 in Pyongyang amongst speculation that Leader Kim Jong-il will name his youngest son Kim Jong-un as his successor. (The Guardian), (AP)
• Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke resigns as Prime Minister of Somalia following an impasse developing with President Sharif Ahmed over a new constitution. (AP via Google) (Al Jazeera)

• 2010 Commonwealth Games
  • The Commonwealth Games Federation demands that India improve conditions at the athletes' village in Delhi. (BBC)
  • At least 23 people are injured after a footbridge collapses near the main Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. (Reuters) (OneIndia), (Times of India)
• The Minnesota Twins win the American League Central in Major League Baseball and become the first team to qualify for postseason play in 2010. (SBNation)

• CBS Season Premieres of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles