* United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (pictured) announces his resignation, after several controversies over his actions.
* Twin bombings kill more than forty people in Hyderabad, India, and nineteen unexploded bombs are found throughout the city.
* Flooding: Ongoing floods in the Midwestern United States claim at least 26 lives, while the heaviest rainfall in 40 years causes massive flooding in North Korea that kills 200.
* Greece declares a state of emergency as forest fires kill more than 50 people.
* A ten-million-year-old fossil found in Ethiopia, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, may prove that the last common ancestor of gorillas and humans existed two million years earlier than previously thought.
* Tropical cyclones: Hurricane Dean makes a second landfall near Tecolutla, Mexico after moving across the Yucatán Peninsula, while Typhoon Sepat moves across Taiwan and makes a second landfall in Fujian.
* Senator Larry Craig R- Idaho pleads guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. (McClatchy Post Bulletin)
* Pakistan and Bangladesh refutes charges of India about terror outfits operating in their countries behind Hyderabad bomb blasts which killed 42 and injuring over 60. (AndhraNews.net)
* Indonesia's karate team has boycotted an Asian championship in Malaysia to protest the beating of one of its official referees by the local police. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
* United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced his resignation. (NYT)
* Ten people are arrested in Russia over the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. (BBC)
* Southeast Asian nations will seek $2 billion to build a rail link between Kunming in China to Singapore. (Reuters)
* Continuation of an Equine influenza outbreak in Australia could threaten security at next weeks APEC meeting (AP via IHT)
* A fire breaks out at the Jebel Ali port in the United Arab Emirates triggering explosions at a chemical storage depot. (Reuters)
* The Vatican establishes a low cost charter flight service to Catholic shrines in France, Poland, Spain and the Middle East for pilgrims. (BBC)
* A report from the National People's Congress environment and resources protection committee finds that high levels of pollution in the Huai River and its tributaries poses a "threat to the water safety of one sixth of the country's 1.3 billion population". (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
* Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Prescott announces he will retire as a Member of Parliament at the next election. (BBC)
* Gunmen raid a farm in Putumayo in Colombia killing 9 people with authorities blaming FARC. (Associated Press in International Herald Tribune)
* 2007 Midwest flooding: Tornadoes hit parts of central and southeast Ohio as hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest are without power. (AP via Fox News)
* A series of explosions in Mogadishu, Somalia kills three people. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
* The Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam seeks to extract its wounded from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinean refugee camp. (Reuters Alertnet)
* An Antonov plane carrying tin ore crashes in Kongolo in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Wikinews)
* Iraqi Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders sign a reconciliation deal. (BBC)
* The equine influenza outbreak spreads in Australia threatening the Spring Carnival including the Melbourne Cup. (Reuters via the Washington Post)
* Bird flu breaks out at a German farm. (Washington Post)
* Ludwig Scotty's government wins a landslide victory in the Nauruan parliamentary election, 2007 with René Harris as the only member of the Opposition to win a seat. (ABC News Australia)
* 25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings
o Seven more unexploded bombs are found in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India a day after the bombings. (Reuters via News Limited)
o The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy blames Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists for the bombings. (Bloomberg)
* 2007 Greek fires:
o European Union countries send firefighters and equipment to help fight hundreds of fires.(BBC and AFP via ABC News Australia)
o The fires threaten Olympia, the site of the Ancient Olympic Games. (Financial Times via MSNBC)
o Greek authorities arrest and charge two people in connection with the fires. (CNN)
o The Greek Government offers a reward of €1,000,000 to help catch arsonists. (BBC)
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