July 24, 2012 (Tuesday)
Disasters
- Hong Kong and China's Guangdong Province is hit by Category 4 Typhoon Vicente, resulting in scores of people injured, cancellation of flights and closure of businesses. (Reuters) (AAP via Herald Sun)
Law and crime
- Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in a forest in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. (USA Today)
- A man with a gun crawls beneath a dock and enters the grounds of the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus. The man later commits suicide. (MSNBC)[permanent dead link]
- Britain's Crown Prosecution Service confirms that eight people, including Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, will face charges relating to the News International phone hacking scandal. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- The President of Ghana, John Atta Mills, dies and is replaced by Vice-President John Dramani Mahama. (Euronews), (Reuters)
- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hisham Qandil, to the position of Prime Minister and asks him to form the new government. (BBC)