• Syrian civil war:
  • Fierce fighting continues in Syria's second city of Aleppo. (Al Jazeera)
  • Jordan opens its first camp for refugees fleeing Syria. (Petra News Agency)
• A security agent serving for the Italian embassy in Sana'a is kidnapped by gunmen in Yemen. (BBC)

• Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea, according to state media. (Business Week)

• The Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of backing rebels hostile to the Congolese government. (Reuters)

• Ten more Islamists are arrested in the United Arab Emirates as part of a crackdown on dissidents, according to activists. (Times of India)

• Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters form a human chain around the Japanese parliament in Tokyo. (Radio Television Hong Kong)
• Thousands of people protest against plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong schools, calling it Chinese propaganda. (Bangkok Post)
• Voters in Romania go to the polls for an impeachment referendum against the President of Romania Traian Băsescu. (BBC)

• New research published in this week's Nature Geoscience details a mechanism by which carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to deeper water below. (France 24) (Phys.org)