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- The Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh is hit by a series of explosions
- Following yesterday's bomb attacks on the London Underground police in London shoot dead a suspected suicide bomber at Stockwell tube station.
- After killing at least four people in the Caribbean, Hurricane Emily slams into the Yucatán Peninsula. Tens of thousands of residents and tourists in Mexico and were evacuated from the beach resorts in and around Cancún and Cozumel in the state of Quintana Roo.
- Hurricane Dennis, after killing 22 people in Haiti and 10 in Cuba, makes landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast and slams into the Florida Panhandle.
- World leaders at the 31st G8 summit held in Gleneagles, Scotland pledge 50 billion USD in aid to fight poverty in Africa, and drop some debt, but do not lift trade restrictions.
- John Garang, former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, is sworn in as vice president of Sudan as part of the agreement ending the Second Sudanese Civil War.
- Three near simultaneous bombings in London kill at least 50 people and injure hundreds more.
