An officer fatally shoots a man in Cornellà, Barcelona, Spain, after he storms into a Mossos d'Esquadra police station with a knife. Police are treating the incident as an attempted terrorist attack. (BBC)
American actor Jimmy Bennett accuses Italian actress Asia Argento of having sexual relations with him when he was 17 years old and then paying him $380,000 to keep silent. (The Hollywood Reporter)
PepsiCo announces its intent to buy SodaStream, a manufacturer of products for in-home soft drink production, for US$3.2 billion. The deal awaits approval by regulators. (BBC)
Eighty-nine South Koreans are selected via lottery to be reunited for three days with North Korean relatives they were separated from in the Korean War six decades earlier. (UPI)
The judge in the trial of two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar announces that he will deliver his verdict on August 27, in a test of press freedom in the country. The journalists were investigating mass graves at the village of Inn Din and the massacre that took place there when they were arrested for allegedly obtaining "secret documents". (Reuters)
Sixty-one people are shot over the weekend in Chicago, including twelve in two mass shootings. Eight die, including five teenagers. Police arrest three people in connection with the shootings and 29 on other firearms charges, and seize 83 guns. (CBS News)
Two men are detained in Ankara, Turkey, after shots are fired at the United States embassy. (ABC News)
An American woman shoots two employees at a food distribution plant in Houston, Texas, killing one person and injuring the other, before killing herself. (CNN)