2013 Assam floods: Floods in Indian state of Assam force nearly 250,000 people to leave their homes. (BBC)
Heavy rain in southwest China causes floods and landslides with at least 9 people dead and 62 missing. (AFP via Channel News Asia)
Taiwan evacuates 2,000 tourists as it prepares for Typhoon Soulik expected later this week. (AFP via France 24)
International relations
An Iranian exile group claims that it has evidence of secret nuclear facilities located in tunnels beneath a mountain near the town of Damavand.(AFP via France 24)
Law and crime
A district court in Moscow convicts the late investment fund auditor Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion in Russia’s first posthumous trial. (Russia Today)
An Indian juvenile court is due to deliver its verdict for a seventeen-year old boy accused of participating in the gang rape and murder of a 23 year old woman in the New Delhi surburb of Munirka. (BBC)
Politics and elections
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker resigns over a scandal in the Service de Renseignement de l’Etat (State Intelligence Service) leading to an election being called. (BBC)
