Template:In the news
- Hurricane Rita threatens Texas and Louisiana, with landfall expected near Galveston and Houston. Re-entry to New Orleans has been halted as potential rainfall threatens weakened levees.
- North Korea agrees to abandon nuclear weapons and return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but also demands a new nuclear power plant.
- Prominent Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies in Vienna, Austria.
- Iraq War: UK forces storm an Iraq police prison in Basra to recover two undercover UK soldiers, detained on claims they had been planting bombs and evading arrest.