Portal:Current events/2012 July 24

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)
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)