• Post-civil war violence in Libya
  • Islamist militia renew their attack on Tripoli International Airport. (Sky News Australia)
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
  • Separatist rebels take all the 196 bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to an undisclosed location. (AP)
• Operation Protective Edge
  • Israel agrees to a two hour ceasefire in Shuja'iyya neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip at the request of the Red Cross ِafter a heavy firefight caused the death of more than 74 Palestinians and 13 Israel Defense Forces soldiers. (Haaretz)
  • At least 100 Palestinians and 13 Israel Army soldiers are killed in fighting, with the United Nations Security Council set to meet tomorrow. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

• Monty Python perform their last ever comedy show at the The O2 Arena in London. (Telegraph)

• 2014 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun reaches 94 in the Philippines and 18 in southern China. (AP via Fox News)

• For the first time in RIMPAC's history a nation (China) sent a surveillance vessel while also participating in the naval exercises.(Reuters)

• Indonesian presidential election, 2014
  • Election results indicate that the Governor of Jakarta Joko Widodo has been elected as the President of Indonesia. (The Jakarta Globe)

• In golf, Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland wins the 2014 Open Championship (British Open) played at Royal Liverpool Golf Club, England. (AP)
• In rugby union, a group of players for French club Clermont Auvergne are attacked by a gang with machetes, knives and swords in Millau. Three France internationals, Benjamin Kayser, Julien Pierre and Aurélien Rougerie, are hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. (The Independent)