Egypt's president sacks the country's intelligence chief and the governor of North Sinai, days after an attack by militants that killed 16 border guards.
Iraqi officials say 11 people have been killed in a car bomb targeting Shia Muslims in the south of the country.
Libya's interim rulers are set to hand power to the country's newly-elected national assembly following the first post-Gaddafi polls.
The Iranian foreign minister says a group of 48 Iranians abducted by rebels in Syria include a number of retired Revolutionary Guards.
Ghasem Rezaei adds another Olympic wrestling gold to Iran's haul in London, defeating Rustam Totrov in the -96kg final.
The Egyptian army says it has carried out air strikes on suspected Islamist militants in the Sinai peninsula, killing 20 people.
Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi orders the restructuring of the military, in an apparent attempt to curb the power of his predecessor.
The widow of an Israeli athlete killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics condemns the IOC at a memorial service on Monday for failing to hold a minute of silence at the London 2012 opening ceremony.
Shares of Standard Chartered bank tumble despite the bank denying allegations that it illegally "schemed" with Iran to launder money.
The security firm formerly known as Blackwater agrees to pay a $7.5m (£4.8m) fine to settle US federal charges related to arms trafficking.
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