• A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people in northern Afghanistan. (CNN)
• Two explosions in the Nigerian city of Gombe killed at least 29 people. (Reuters)

• The University of Oxford has radiocarbon dated fragments, of what apparently is the world's oldest Quran, to between 568 A.D. and 645 A.D. The animal skin parchment was found hidden inside the pages of another book in England's University of Birmingham library. (Daily Mail) (Deutsche Welle)

• The European Central Bank provides an extra 900 million euros to the Greek banks. (The Independent)

• 2015 Studénka train crash
  • Three people die in a collision between a Pendolino train and a lorry that occurred near Studénka, north Moravia, in the Czech Republic. (Yahoo news) (ABC news) (ČTK)

• Charleston church shooting
  • Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine people in the American city of Charleston, South Carolina, is indicted on dozens of federal offenses including hate crimes. (The Guardian)
• The former prime minister of Egypt, Ahmed Nazif, is sentenced to five years in prison after losing appeal against 3-year prison sentence for corruption. (Cairo Post)

• The finals of the robot football World Cup are held. A Chinese team defeats the Netherlands in the finals of the middle-weight non-humanoid league, while another lost in the final of the small humanoid class to a team from Japan. (DutchNews) (BBC)

• Scientists at the U.S. NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases report a major breakthrough toward finding a new universal flu vaccine by using non-infectious H-proteins instead of whole viruses.(NIAID)