Australia: Three seats remain too close to call as electoral officials continue to count votes in Australia. Three independent Members of Parliament submitted seven points to both party leaders, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, and are awaiting the results of the final count and the leaders' answers before deciding who to support.
Japan: The summer of 2010 is now officially Japan’s hottest and longest in 113 years.
South Korea: South Korea and the U.S. celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, re-enacting a battle in Waegwan.
China: People's Liberation Army's North Sea Fleet continues firing exercise in Yellow Sea off Qingdao; at same time as major US-Korean naval exercise
China: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych continues four-day trip after talks with counterpart Hu Jintao yesterday; today meets Premier Wen Jiabao, top legislator Wu Bangguo
China: China and Russia have agreed to expand nuclear power cooperation to include the areas of building floating nuclear power plants, exploring uranium mines, eliminating old plants and developing markets abroad, the China Atomic Energy Authority said
Vietnam: Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet thanks Russia for its assistance in building the country's first nuclear power plant.Rosatom Chairman Sergei Kiriyenko said Rosatam and Vietnamese scientists will establish a training center for nuclear power plants and an atomic energy research institute.
Russia: Government-sponsored rallies held in 11 different locations across Moscow to commemorate "victims of terror"
India: The situation remains tense in Kashmir which has witnessed some of the biggest anti-India protests following clashes between stone pelting demonstrators and Indian security forces.
Azerbaijan: Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev wraps up visits, to discuss relations with Armenia, sign border deal with counterpart Ilham Aliyev
Iran: Thousands of Iranians take part in a parade during a rally marking Al-Quds Day in the capital. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is expected to deliver a speech.
Turkey: U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Mike Mullen will pay two days visit to Turkey.
Turkey: Thousands of people are expected to gather after the Friday prayer in Istanbul's Beyazit mosque for al-Quds day.
Turkey: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives speech at rally in Diyarbakir ahead of constitutional referendum on 12 September; also expected to address possibility of dialogue with outlawed Kurdish PKK party.
Syria: A demonstration will be held at the Yarmouk Camp, housing Palestinian refugees, near Damascus, to mark al-Quds day.
Lebanon: Tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters mark the annual Al-Quds day which falls on the last Friday of Ramadan. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah expected to speak via video link.
Palestine: Thousands of Palestinian Muslim worshippers from the West Bank will crowd Israeli checkpoints in a bid to enter Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque for Ramadan last Friday prayers as Israel continues to impose an age restriction on entry into the Holy City and tight security in and around Jerusalem's Old City.
West Bank: Israel occupation troops will patrol major roads in “Judea and Samaria” have begun, The Jerusalem Post reported. Armed troops and officers with medical equipment who reside in the region will participate.
Cyprus: Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman visits Cyprus and holds a news conference.
Sudan: Sudan's referendum commission agreed to the appointment of Mohammed Osman al-Nujoomi, who had previously worked in the Sudanese Finance Ministry.
South Africa: South Africa will end an agreement that allowed thousands of Zimbabweans to enter the country without documents, a South African Cabinet spokesman said. The arrangement was introduced in April 2009, but undocumented Zimbabweans will be treated the same as other migrants and their deportation will resume, the spokesman said.
Belarus: Belarusian authorities are concerned the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia could create an influx of smuggled goods from China, Eduard Nikitsin, head of the Belarusian Interior Ministry's economic crimes division, said
Bosnia: Turkish President Abdullah Gul on his second day of a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hungary: Hungarian Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy to hold speech titled "New Government - New Economic Policy" at a conference (0800GMT).
France: President Nicolas Sarkozy holds meeting to arbitrate between different ministerial proposals on controversial plan to strip people of foreign origin of French nationality if found guilty of certain offences
Spain: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to meet with Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos. There will be a joint news conference after the meeting and will discuss the need for increased security against terrorism in the Sahel region. They will also discuss the next Summit of the Union for the Mediterranean and the objectives for the G-8 and G-20 summits.
Portugal: The verdict in Portugal's longest-running child abuse case is due to be read. The defendants in this case include more than 100 children from the state-run children's home 'Casa Pia,' including a former diplomat and a Portuguese television presenter.
Brazil: IBGE government statistics agency publishes growth data for the second quarter. The number will shed further light on how fast Latin America's largest economy slowed after posting high growth rates in the first three months of the year.
US: Hurricane Earl bears down on eastern U.S., as visitors and some residents are evacuated from low-lying islands off the North Carolina coast.
Mexico: Authorities confirmed the deaths of at least 25 people in a firefight between soldiers and suspected members of an unidentified drug trafficking cartel in the municipality of General Trevino, Nuevo Leon state
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