Several rockets were fired from
Gaza at
Israel and exploded near the cities of
Ashdod,
Netivot and
Ashkelon causing no casualties. The
IDF retaliated with airstrikes against empty
Hamas training camps in
Gaza.
(Al Jazeera)
Naxalite Insurgents kill at least 20
Indian Army soldiers and injure 12 in an attack on a convoy in the state of
Manipur.
(BBC)
Officials of the ruling
Syriza party in
Greece say that they cannot accept a last-minute deal proposed by the country's creditors: default deadline looms.
(AP)
Surgeons, led by Dr.
Jesse Selber, working with the
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in a 15-hour, 12-doctor operation, perform the world's first partial-skull and scalp transplant, at
Houston Methodist Hospital, on 55-year-old
Jim Boysten, a software developer from
Austin, Texas suffering from a large head wound from cancer treatment; immediately afterward, he was finally able to receive a new
kidney and
pancreas, which replaced the previous transplants that were failing.
(MSN)