July 4, 2010 (Sunday)
Current events
- Australia celebrates indigenous culture with NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.(ABC)(NAIDOC)
- Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi tries to stop death by stoning for an Iranian woman convicted of adultery. (CNN)
- Lebanese Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah dies suddenly in Beirut. (Aljazeera) (CNN) (Press TV) (RTÉ) (Xinhua)
- At least 15 people are killed and 48 are injured after the driver of a runaway bus smashes into a concrete wall in the Philippines. (BBC) (People's Daily) (news.com.au) (The Times of India)
- At least four people are killed and dozens of others are wounded in a bombing at Ramadi's provincial government building. (Aljazeera)
- Women and children march towards Mahmoud al-Zahar's house in Gaza to hand him a letter calling on Hamas to insist on the release of 1,000 Israeli-held Palestinian prisoners during their talks with Israel. (Xinhua)
- President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva takes his last tour of Africa as president. (BBC)
- David Petraeus formally takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. (CBC),(BBC)
- Iran passes on to Tehran's Swiss embassy what it describes as evidence proving that the United States Central Intelligence Agency abducted Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. (Aljazeera)
- Japan's competitive eating champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi is arrested after disrupting the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, United States. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Politics and Elections
- Polish presidential election, 2010
- Polish voters head to the polls for the second round of presidential voting.
- Jarosław Kaczyński initially concedes defeat after exit polls show Bronisław Komorowski winning, but later withdraws his concession as exit polls show the result narrowing. (BBC)
- Mexican gubernatorial elections, 2010
- Voters in 14 Mexican states vote to elect governors and mayors. (Aljazeera) (BBC) (Sky News)
- Exit polls show the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party winning in 8 of the 14 states, with a strong showing in mayoral elections. BBC News
- In a referendum, voters in the German state of Bavaria vote to ban smoking at all pubs and restaurants. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Sports
- Rafael Nadal of Spain wins the men's singles titles at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships. (AFP), (BBC)