* The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Fatah claims its militants have fired the missile into southern Israeli city of Sderot in response to Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip. Israeli sources said the rocket landed on a building and caused damages and panic. (xinhuanet)
* Scores of Italians are arrested in a crackdown on the 'ndrangheta organised crime clans active in Calabria. (AP via CNN)
* Cao Gangchuan, the Defense Minister of People's Republic of China and Masahiko Komura, the Defense Minister of Japan meet and agree to strengthen exchanges. (Xinhua)
* The Chinese Finance Minister, Jin Renqing, resigns due to "personal reasons". (BBC)
* A report into the Virginia Tech massacre criticises staff for not acting quickly enough after Seung-Hui Cho's first killings. (BBC) (Report)
* The Anglican Church of Kenya consecrates two bishops from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America after they left the Episcopal Church due to concerns that the Church was consecrating gay bishops. (BBC)
* More than 450 people have been arrested after protests in which police used tear gas and water cannons in Chile's capital, Santiago. (BBC)
* Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is all set to return back to Pakistan after seven years of exile. (AndhraNews.net)
* The Wyoming Republican Party votes to move its nominating convention to January 5, 2008, making it the first event in the nation for the Republicans in the United States presidential election, 2008. (MSNBC)
* The Red Cross reports that at least 17,000 are still missing from the former Yugoslavia including 13,400 from the Bosnian wars, 2,300 from the Croatian conflict and 2,047 from the Kosovo conflict. (AFP via NYT)
* Moqtada al-Sadr suspends the activities of his Mehdi Army militia in Iraq for six months. (BBC)
* Senator Tim Johnson announces that he will return to the United States Senate on September 5 after recovering from brain surgery since last December. (Reuters)
* The United States Department of Defense's inspector general launches an investigation into the United States military's inability to account for weapons sent to Iraq after reports that Kurdish militants were using US weapons to attack Turkey. (Reuters)
* Thousands of people protest in Chile against the economic policies of the President of Chile Michelle Bachelet with 350 arrests made when they attempt to enter the grounds of the presidential palace. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
* A California produce company recalls bagged fresh spinach after it tests positive to salmonella. (CNN)
* The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) claim to have captured a Sudanese army base in the Kordofan province of Sudan. (Reuters via ABC)
* A NASA internal investigation finds no evidence of heavy drinking or drunkenness amongst astronauts prior to missions. (NYT)
* The United States Senate Republican Party leadership requests that Senator Larry Craig of Idaho stand aside from his Senate committees until the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics makes a ruling on his situation. Senator Craig agrees. (WSJ)
* John Holmes, the United Nation's emergency relief coordinator, warns that refugees of the Darfur conflict are arming themselves and may soon be able to defend themselves if the Sudanese government renews its attacks. (BBC)
* Three Palestinian children are killed in an explosion between Beit Lahiya and the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip caused by Israeli tank fire. The Israeli Defence Forces later claim they were aiming for rocket launchers in the area directed towards Israel, but eyewitnesses and medical sources said that there were no gunmen or rocket launchers at the scene. (BBC) (YNet)
* A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the murder of British schoolboy Rhys Jones. (Sky News)
* Ten people are trapped alive in a collapsed apartment building in Baku, Azerbaijan with at least eight people having died. (Reuters via News Limited)
* The Taliban release twelve South Korean hostages of the 19 they have been holding. (BBC)
* A curfew is imposed in the Indian city of Agra after angry mobs clash with police resulting in one death and 50 police are injured. (BBC)
* Prison officers in the United Kingdom call a surprise 24-hour strike. (Daily Telegraph)
* The United States releases seven Iranians hours after detaining them in a Baghdad hotel. (AP via Fox News)
* Three people are killed - including a father and son - in a "targeted incident" involving firearms at a house in Bishop's Stortford. Two others are injured, but a 3 year-old girl is unharmed. Police are hunting "two Asian men" in connection with the attack. (BBC)
* The Supreme Court of Chile confirms a life sentence for Hugo Salas Wenzel, a Chilean general under former dictator Augusto Pinochet, for his role in the murder of 12 opponents of the regime. (BBC)
* The Sudanese Government and the United Nations launch a flood appeal to help victims of recent flooding which has killed 89 people and destroyed 73,000 homes. (BBC)
* South Korean hostage crisis: Officials in South Korea's Blue House claim that the Taliban has agreed to release 19 South Korean hostages. (Reuters)
* Battle of Karbala (2007): At least 52 people have been killed in fighting in Karbala, as thousands of Shia pilgrims gathered in the city for an annual festival. (Reuters)
* Scientists in Colombia discover new poisonous frog, dubbed the 'golden frog of Supatá,' in a remote mountainous region. (Fox News)
* A United States federal judge orders the extradition of former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega to France, where he has already been convicted in absentia on money-laundering charges. (CNN)
* Abdullah Gül of the Justice and Development Party is elected President of Turkey. (BBC)
* The Cockpit voice recorder is retrieved from the wreckage of Adam Air Flight 574, 24 hours after the recovery of the Flight data recorder. (ABC News Australia)
* The Ontario Court of Appeal acquits Steven Truscott of the 1959 murder of Lynne Harper, declaring the original trial that had sentenced the then-14-year-old to hang was a miscarriage of justice. The case has been a cause célèbre for almost fifty years. (CBC)
* A total lunar eclipse takes place in the early morning hours across most of North America and the eastern Pacific Ocean region. (Canwest via Ottawa Citizen)
