• War in North-West Pakistan:
  • Drone attacks in Pakistan: Pakistani intelligence officials claim that a US drone attack has killed 5 alleged foreign militants, including Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander Wali-ur-Rehman, in the North Waziristan town of Miran Shah. (New York Times)
• Insurgents storm a Red Cross guest house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (AP via The Miami Herald)

• The veteran Italian actress Franca Rame, also known as the wife and muse of Dario Fo and mother of Jacopo Fo, dies in Milan at the age of 83. Dario Fo dedicated his 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature to her. (The Guardian) (Reuters)
• Italians campaign to save Trieste's historic Caffè San Marco, frequented by figures such as James Joyce, Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba. (The Guardian)

• Chinese meat processing company Shuanghui buys the world's largest meat processing company Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion. (AP via USA Today)
• Funeral service and cemetery company Service Corporation International purchases another funeral service company Stewart Enterprises for $1.4 billion. (Bloomberg)

• At least 13 people are dead and at least 20 injured following a collision between a bus and a tanker near the Indian town of Dahanu in Maharashtra state. (IBN)

• French police arrest a man, said to be a radical Islamist, for allegedly stabbing Cédric Cordier, a soldier in the La Défense business district near Paris. (The Times)
• Former Bosnian official Jadranko Prlić is sentenced to 25 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars. (The Australian)
• Buddhist mobs burn down Muslim homes and shops in Lashio, Myanmar leaving 1 dead and 4 others injured. (Reuters)
• The New York Police Department (NYPD) states that preliminary tests indicate ricin was present in letters that were sent to the office of New York City Mayor and media mogul Michael Bloomberg, and to the office of the Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. (CNN)
• Michael Adebowale is charged with the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby in the 2013 Woolwich attack. (CBS News)

• U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a prominent figure in the Tea Party movement, abruptly announces that she will not seek reelection to a fifth term in November 2014. (MarketWatch)

• Aurornis xui is described as the most basal species of Avialae, potentially unseating Archaeopteryx as the oldest known bird. (BBC)

• The International Olympic Committee releases its shortlist of sports to be included in the 2020 Summer Olympics: wrestling, squash, and a joint baseball-softball bid. A final decision will be made on September 7. (ESPN)
• England and Ireland meet at Wembley Stadium for the first time since England fans rioted and attacked their Irish counterparts in Dublin in 1995. The match passes off peacefully with a 1-1 draw. (RTÉ) (BBC)
• In a friendly soccer match in Cleveland, Belgium defeats the United States by a score of 4 to 2. (Sports Illustrated)