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- Continental Airlines Flight 128, from Rio de Janeiro to Houston, makes a emergency landing in Miami after a severe turbulence, injuring dozens. (New York Daily News)
- Evidence that haggis was invented by the English is unearthed. (IOL) (News.com.au)
- Iran is reportedly ready to build a nuclear weapon, according to Western intelligence services. (The Times)
- Barclays posts a profit of £2.98bn for the first half of the year, up 8% on the same period of 2008. (Sky News)
- Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (BBC) (Press TV) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Water supplies in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China, are cut off to over 580,000 people after contaminants caused the hospitalization of 4,125 people due to gastrointestinal illness. (Xinhua) (Associated Press)
- A town in Qinghai, China, is sealed off after a second person dies of pneumonic plague. (Xinhua) (The Times) (Al Jazeera)
- Somali pirates release a Malaysian tugboat with 11 Indonesian crew after being held for more than seven months. (Reuters) (People's Daily) (The Straits Times)
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