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Current topics
- The ruling Justice and Development Party, also known as the AKP, of Turkey survives a decision before the Constitutional Court of Turkey to ban the party for being anti-secular.
- World Trade Organisation (Director-General Pascal Lamy pictured) trade talks in Geneva collapse after disagreements between developed and developing nations over access to agricultural markets.
- A 5.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Los Angeles, California, area, about two miles (3 km) southwest of Chino Hills.
- The International Olympic Committee lifts the ban imposed five days earlier on Iraq's team, allowing them to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- Navanethem Pillay of South Africa is appointed to succeed Louise Arbour as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- King George Tupou V of Tonga relinquishes many of his powers, ending centuries of absolute monarchy.