Template:In the news
- Time correspondent Matthew Cooper reveals that last week he told a grand jury that Karl Rove–a top White House political adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush–was the first to reveal Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent.
- Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath dies at his Salisbury home at the age of 89.
- The government of Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement agree to a peace deal to end the 30-year conflict in the Aceh region on Sumatra.
- After a series of raids, British police announce their suspicion that the July 7 bombings in London were suicide attacks carried out by four British citizens, three from Leeds and one from Aylesbury.