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The House votes to impose new sanctions on Iran’s oil exports; Russia grants short term asylum to Edward Snowden; the U.N. moves to disarm Congo’s M23 rebel group; a new report highlights misconduct by the TSA; and a record-breaking heat wave hits China.

The latest NSA leaks shed more light on the pervasiveness of government surveillance; Egyptian officials order police to break up pro-Morsi demonstrations; as the US prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan, casualties are on the rise; polls have closed in Zimbabwe’s presidential election; and India’s government votes to create a new state.

Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy, but faces more than 100 years on other charges; in Pakistan, Taliban fighters raid a prison, freeing hundreds, while more than 1,100 prisoners escape in a jailbreak in Libya; in a nationwide sweep, the FBI frees more than 100 victims of underage prostitution; and a thief steals over $136,000,000 worth of jewelry from a hotel on the French Riviera.

The death toll for the Syrian civil war reaches 100,000 and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon calls for peace talks; Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying evidence connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill; in Egypt, ousted president Mohammed Morsi is charged with conspiring with Hamas; accused rapist and abductor Ariel Castro makes a plea deal for life in prison without parole; and a squirrel in Los Angeles has been infected with the bubonic plague.

Scores of passengers are dead following a high-speed train derailment in Spain; Tunisians take to the streets to protest the killing of an opposition leader; Shi’ite truck drivers are executed north of Baghdad; federal agents raid marijuana dispensaries in Washington state, despite the drug’s decriminalization there; and scientists may have discovered the cause of alarming rates of honey bee deaths.

Egyptian military leaders call on citizens to give the army a mandate to counter ‘violence and terrorism’; the Red Cross highlights the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria; the House rejects an amendment to limit NSA surveillance; clashes between police forces and armed gang members in western Mexico leave nearly two dozen dead; and a federal judge suspends the initial challenges to Detroit’s bankruptcy filing.

Protesters across the United States are reacting with outrage and prayer in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal; the U.S. is warning the Egyptian military to stop cracking down on Islamist protesters, even as Egyptian prosecutors freeze the assets of top Muslim Brotherhood leaders; yesterday capped another deadly weekend in Iraq, where more than 760 people have been killed since June; Syrian journalists living abroad are hoping to use old-school techniques to bring unbiased news to the people; and Russian president Vladimir Putin says he wants whistleblower Edward Snowden out of the Moscow airport where Snowden's taken refuge.

Greek workers are protesting the government’s plans to slash public sector jobs, as the unemployment rate reaches a new high; prison officials in Georgia are scrambling to locate enough drugs to execute an inmate by lethal injection; in Indonesia, prison inmates rioted to protest a lack of water. Hundreds escaped and several were killed; across Egypt, supporters of ousted ex-president Mohamed Morsi are rallying, demanding his reinstatement; and for the first time ever, a killer whale reintroduced to the wild has a baby.

A jury hears closing remarks in the murder trial of George Zimmerman; the nuclear power plant at Fukushima has probably been leaking radioactive toxins into the sea for the past two years, but no one knows how to stop it; the Pope changes Vatican law to crack down on money laundering and child sexual abuse; in Russia, a court convicts a whistleblower and Kremlin critic on charges of tax evasion—the only problem is he’s been dead for years; and Mexico becomes the world’s fattest developed nation.

Devastating rainstorms hit China’s Sichuan province; California prison inmates are on hunger strike to protest conditions in solitary confinement; a federal judge finds Apple guilty of conspiring to raise e-book prices; Egyptian authorities are cracking down on the Muslim Brotherhood and ordering the arrest of top spiritual leaders; and Twinkies will be back in stores next week.

An English court hands down a serious sentence for cyber bullying, sending a man to prison for 28 months for threatening to kill children on Facebook; the ACLU takes on Pennsylvania’s same sex marriage ban; state prison doctors in California sterilized female inmates for years without proper state approval; a journalist in Dagestan is gunned down, the 17th reporter killed there in 20 years; and in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is rejecting the military’s plans to return the country to democracy.

Asiana Airlines says one of the pilots flying the plane that crash landed in San Francisco this weekend was still in training; a town in Quebec is in ruins after a runaway train explodes; more than 50 people are dead in Egypt as protesters fight with security forces; in Nigeria, an extremist group attacks a school and kills 22 children; and an algae bloom the size of Connecticut chokes China’s beaches.

In Egypt, crowds celebrate as the military ousts President Mohamed Morsi from power; Bolivia expresses outrage over the treatment of President Evo Morales by the United States and its European allies; In the Bay Area, mass transit workers are on strike for the third day; snail mail is subject to the same snooping as phone calls and internet use; And in India, the government plans to launch the largest welfare program in the world, bringing subsidized food to two-thirds of the population.

Details emerge on the Egyptian army's political road map; two Canadians are arrested for attempted terrorism on Canada Day; Syrian government forces launch an offensive against rebel-held positions in Homs; Catholic church officials moved millions of dollars to shelter it from settlements in sexual abuse cases; and the United Nations is partnering with Ikea to develop the next generation of emergency shelters.

The Egyptian military gives President Mohamed Morsi an ultimatum after millions take to the streets to call for his resignation; 19 firefighters died Sunday battling a wildfire in Arizona; fallout continues after reports that the U.S. has been spying on its European allies; the Supreme Court denies a last-ditch appeal to halt same-sex marriages in California; and Secretary of State John Kerry helps Israeli and Palestinian officials inch toward new peace talks.

Egypt is bracing for a weekend of protests—street fights today have already injured dozens; the 9th Circuit Court clears the way for same-sex marriages in California; in Iraq an explosion at a Sunni checkpoint kills at least ten people… ending another violent week; a Vatican cleric is arrested for money laundering; and the UK could become the first country to allow three-person in vitro fertilization treatments.