- Belgian King Albert II intervenes to take state reform off the table in the 2007 Belgian government formation, which has lasted a record five months.
- Glasgow is chosen to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games after voting by the Commonwealth Games Federation in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- A state of emergency is declared in Georgia after clashes between riot police and opposition demonstrators in Tbilisi.
- Queen Elizabeth II formally opens the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link and London's St Pancras terminus, the new home for Eurostar trains (pictured) linking London with Paris and Brussels.
- Space Shuttle Discovery safely returns to Earth, after a 15-day mission to the International Space Station.
- Nine people are killed and several injured in a school shooting in Finland.
- Flooding in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas forces 20,000 people to seek emergency shelter.
- The incumbent People's National Movement party retains power in the Trinidad and Tobago elections.
- At least 35 people are killed in a suicide bombing outside a sugar factory in northern Afghanistan.
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