• Japan commemorates the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II. (BBC)

• 2015 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll in China from Typhoon Soudelor rises to at least 22 people with more missing and millions without power. (USA Today)

• An arrest warrant is issued for the cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Suleiman Hilal Al-Assad, who is accused of shooting and killing Colonel Hassan Al-Sheikh of the Syrian Armed Forces at what can be described as a traffic dispute. (The News Hub), (France 24)
• Ferguson unrest
  • Tyrone Harris, Jr is shot in Ferguson, Missouri after allegedly firing shots at police. He is in a critical condition.(The St Louis Post-Dispatch)

• The Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi calls for abolishing the positions of Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister and says he is opening graft investigations. The previous vice president Tariq al-Hashimi was sentenced in absentia to death over political murders. (Bloomberg)
• Haitian parliamentary election, 2015
  • Voters in Haiti go to the polls for the first election in four years with some polling places in the capital Port-au-Prince forced to close due to violence. (Reuters)

• NFL player and sportscaster Frank Gifford dies at the age of 84. (NBC)