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- The June 2007 Texas floods cause evacuations in some areas. (MSNBC)
- The deathtoll of the June 2007 United Kingdom floods rises to six with Northern England and the Midlands hardest hit. (The Telegraph)
- Eleven Colombian lawmakers hostages out of twelve are killed by the leftist guerilla group FARC. Abducted in 2002, the FARC alleges that the hostages died in a crossfire when an unidentified military group attacked. The FARC blames the Colombian government, but the government says they knew nothing of the location or of any attempt of rescue. (CNN)
- Russia successfully test fires a sea-based ballistic missile, the Bulava. (BBC)
- A TAAG-Angola Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in northern Angola resulting in the death of at least five passengers on the same day the European Union bans the airline from European airspace. (Reuters via News Limited)
- Scientists take a first step towards making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one species of bacteria to another making it a copy of the first. (Reuters via News Limited)
- Record high temperatures in Greece lead to nine deaths through heat stroke, outbreaks of wildfires killing two people and extensive power cuts. (AP via the Washington Post)
- A bill to legalize millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States is defeated in the United States Senate. (AP via the Houston Chronicle)
- Former Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 wins a case for an appeal in the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. (The Guardian)
- An Italian man has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of bribery in connection with the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann. (Sky)
- Premiership of Gordon Brown, United Kingdom:
- In a major Cabinet reshuffle, every person's post is changed bar one.
- Alistair Darling becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Miliband becomes Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Jacqui Smith becomes the first female Secretary of State for the Home Department.
- Alan Johnson takes Health, Jack Straw takes Justice and First Secretary of State, Hilary Benn takes Environment, Des Browne remains as Defence Secretary but also becomes Secretary of State for Scotland, Ruth Kelly takes Transport.
- Douglas Alexander takes Secretary of State for International Development, Peter Hain remains Secretary of State for Wales but also becomes Work and Pensions Secretary, Shaun Woodward becomes Northern Ireland Secretary John Hutton takes Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Secretary, Hazel Blears takes Communities Secretary and Minister for Equality, James Purnell takes Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and Tessa Jowell becomes Minister for the Olympics, and will only attend Cabinet when required.
- Baroness Ashton becomes Leader of the House of Lords, Harriet Harman - Labour's deputy leader - becomes Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women, whilst Ed Balls becomes Children, Schools and Families Secretary. John Denham becomes Innovation, University and Skills Secretary, and Baroness Scotland becomes the new Attorney General of England and Wales. The Cabinet is set to change. (Office of the Prime Minister)
- Rivers in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia flood leading to evacuations in Bairnsdale and Sale as a result of days of heavy rain. (ABC) (ABC)
- A car bomb in the Bayaa district of Baghdad kills at least 20 people and injures another 35. (Reuters Alertnet)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrive at the Yongbyon reactor in North Korea to discuss plans to shut it down. It follows North Korea test firing short-range missiles yesterday. (AP via CNN)
- The United States Supreme Court hands down a divided decision against two school districts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, saying the districts' plans to admit students to schools based partially on their race violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection. (CNN)
- The commercial space station prototype Genesis II from Bigelow Aerospace is launched at 15:02 UTC from Russia by a Dnepr. (NASASpaceflight.com)
- UNESCO designates several new World Heritage Sites, including Sydney Opera House, Canada's Rideau Canal, Japan's Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, Turkmenistan's Parthian Fortresses of Nisa, India's Red Fort complexes, the Lope-Okanda Landscape of Gabon, the Richtersveld desert of South Africa, the rock carvings of Twyfelfontein in Namibia, the fortified tower houses of Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China, Teide National Park in the Canary Islands, Spain, ancient beech forests of Central Europe, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bordeaux and the Port de la Lune in France, the Old Town of Corfu in Greece, the Palace of Galerius in Gamzigrad-Romuliana in Serbia. (The Globe and Mail) (Buweb) (YouTube) (aids)
- The Bald Eagle is removed from the endangered species list. (National Geographic)
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- At least 18 people die in fights between police and gangsters in a Rio de Janeiro favela. (BBC)
- Protesters take to the streets in Iran as the government introduces petrol rationing and raises prices. (CNN)
- Dr. Ashraf Marwan, who had previously been accused of being a senior Mossad agent operating in Egypt prior to the Yom Kippur War, is found dead below the balcony of his home in London. Scotland Yard investigates the "unexplained" death. (Haaretz),(Guardian)
- At least ten people drown and thousands move to higher ground as a cyclone hits Balochistan, Pakistan. (CNN)
- Prime Minister Gordon Brown, United Kingdom:
- Longstanding tradition is abandoned in the House of Commons as every serving Member of Parliament, and others, clap and give a standing ovation to Tony Blair after he finishes his last Prime Minister's Questions.
- Queen Elizabeth II accepts the resignation of Tony Blair as Prime Minister.
- Gordon Brown, MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepts Queen Elizabeth II's invitation to form a new government, becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- Tony Blair takes the Chiltern Hundreds to stand down as MP for Sedgefield and accepts a role as the main Middle East envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East. His appointment is announced at the United Nations headquarters. Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, welcomes the appointment of Blair as envoy.
- Journalists learn that Patricia Hewitt and Margaret Beckett will not be re-appointed as Health Secretary and Foreign Secretary respectively, when Brown assembles his government.
- Brown begins contact by telephone with U.S. President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, discussing working closely together. (All of the above, BBC News) (10 Downing Street)
- The wreckage of PMTair Flight U4 241 is discovered in Kampot Province, Cambodia. All 22 people on board were killed in the crash. (BBC)
- The Government of Kyrgyzstan abolishes capital punishment. (Nasdaq)
- Jamaican-born Floridian Barrington Irving becomes the youngest person, and the first black person, to fly solo around the world. (Miami Herald)
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